Sentences with phrase «virtually unanimous»

The expert medical evidence was virtually unanimous on the treatability of his condition.

Even where the judiciary are not entirely convinced of compulsory mediation, they are virtually unanimous in agreeing that there must be «robust encouragement» to mediate.

Elis Gomer, barrister, St John's Buildings, said: «The idea that a significant increase in probate fees should be used to cross-subsidise the rest of the justice system was profoundly unfair and it is deeply troubling that the Ministry of Justice have indicated that they believe that this was not only appropriate but that it should be introduced despite the virtually unanimous condemnation of the policy by professionals.

It is true that, unlike their virtually unanimous attitude on the issue of religious freedom, state courts have not always sustained Sunday legislation against the charge of unconstitutional discrimination.

As to the sending lawyer, Vermont joins the virtually unanimous opinion of jurisdictions that have considered the question.

Obama, says that he has the best climate scientists advising him and the virtually unanimous consensus among that crowd is that ACO2 produced «climate change» is an existential threat.

There is virtually unanimous scientific agreement about climate change.

I understand that science must hold to standards that preclude rhetoric and moral distinction, but the social context of the debate is what's preventing the information, the virtually unanimous accord that anthropogenic climate change is here, from being acted on, now.

But there's a virtually unanimous consensus in the literature that rebound is likely to be significantly higher in emerging economies, where demand is far from saturated and efficiency improvements make energy cheaper and more useful for accelerated industrialization and economic growth.

Peter Lilley (one of the dissenters) said: «Historically, the House has made its worst mistakes not when it is divided, but when it is virtually unanimous; not when it is adversarial, but when MPs switch off their critical faculties in a spasm of moral self - congratulation.

The experts at Exeter were virtually unanimous about the danger, mirroring the attitude of the climate science community as a whole: humanity is to blame.

It seems you are virtually unanimous in being completely clueless of what the «right,» actually believes.

These organizations and their industry allies are also advantaged by virtually unanimous opposition to cap and trade among Republican members of Congress, with many Republican leaders echoing the communication strategy of conservative groups by casting doubt on climate science and exaggerating the costs of action.

The Japan - based company finally launched their latest console system in 2017, the Nintendo Switch, earning virtually unanimous praise from critics and consumers alike.

The intense marketing of ETFs, along with virtually unanimous support from the domestic financial media, must also be a positive contributor to rising demand — as well as the near - complete silence from the mutual fund industry, which seems unwilling or unable to speak up in its own defence.

The journalists» reviews of the new reader are coming in this week, and they are virtually unanimous.

Ever since the independent film, Super Size Me was released, research on the relationship between increasing obesity and increasing portion sizes has skyrocketed and the results have been virtually unanimous.

This bill had the votes to pass the Senate, virtually unanimous support from mental health professionals, and was modeled after legislation passed with bi-partisan support in California and New Jersey, where it was signed by Republican Governor Chris Christie.

In contrast to widely varying forecasts by opinion polls, betting shops were virtually unanimous in installing the Tories as firm favourites for victory on May 6.

I have virtually unanimous support among the unions,» Cuomo said.

Yet a transnational template to the contrary was received with virtually unanimous acclaim across the ideological spectrum right from the beginning of the constitutional and organic legislative revision process, well before many parties had even been formed, let alone knew anything about their fortunes at the next elections.

When the petition organizer had a piece in our local paper about the fifteen - minute lunch period, the article drew dozens of comments, and they were virtually unanimous that fifteen minutes was too short.

Scientists are virtually unanimous in their support for evolution.

The courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.

Turning to Christian tradition, we may note that the Fathers and Doctors of the Church are virtually unanimous in their support for capital punishment, even though some of them such as St. Ambrose exhort members of the clergy not to pronounce capital sentences or serve as executioners.

Centuries of honest textual criticism, archeology and history are virtually unanimous in their agreement that two of the Gospels are eye - witness accounts, two are commissioned investigations by the early church and all of the canonical Epistles were written by first - generation apostles.

You said, «Centuries of honest textual criticism, archeology and history are virtually unanimous in their agreement that two of the Gospels are eye - witness accounts»

Scholarship virtually unanimous that Gospel of John originally written ~ 90 AD, we have original papyrus dated to 120AD.

The resolution was virtually unanimous, as the House voted 385 yeas, 4 nays, 42 not voting, and 0 absent after nearly forty minutes of debate.

But offer it for free, and you've got virtually unanimous interest.

Not exact matches

This past year, writing for a tenuously unanimous Court, Chief Justice William Rehnquist refused to invent a constitutional right to assisted suicide, noting the political dangers of abolishing the existing laws of virtually all the states.

Virtually all economists are unanimous in stressing the dire economic consequences of leaving the single market, but May might consider it politically impossible to stay in if it means retaining freedom of movement.

Most recently, in R v Oakes, 2016 ABCA 90, the case that is my topic here, the majority ruling of Justices Myra Bielby and Frederica Schutz, at para. 11, adopted the opinion in R v Truscott (2007), 225 CCC (3d) 321 (Ont CA) where a unanimous five member panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal stated, at para. 110, that the power to overturn a conviction founded in a miscarriage of justice, ``... can reach virtually any kind of error that renders the trial unfair in a procedural or substantive way.»