Sentences with phrase «widespread agreement with»

There is widespread agreement with the view presented in the article on homosexuality in Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics (edited by Carl F. Henry [Baker Book House, 1973]-RRB-, which declares that «those who base their faith on the OT and NT documents can not doubt that their strong prohibitions of homosexual behavior make homosexuality a direct transgression of God's law.»

I think there is widespread agreement with this assessment of the situation, but inevitably there will be people who do not agree.

Not exact matches

Former employees describe it as a process of bringing vice-presidents on board with a proposal, and things move ahead only when there is widespread agreement.

«If those with seriously illnesses are going to be subsidized, and there is widespread agreement in Congress that they are going to be subsidized, I think [it's] far better for that to happen from direct tax revenue rather than forcing a bunch of other people to pay much higher premiums,» Cruz told me last week.

While there may be some truth to this, there is widespread agreement among most economists (with Peter Navarro perhaps being an exception) that unrestricted trade is beneficial and protectionism is bad for any country.

While there may be some truth to this, there is widespread agreement among most economists (with Peter Navarro perhaps being an exception) that unrestricted trade is beneficial and protectionism is bad for any -LSB-...]

There is widespread agreement among futurist writers with respect to the most crucial world problems — issues of such magnitude that failure to resolve them will result in enormous destruction, conflict, and misery on a global scale.

But with the widespread failure of the field to come to any agreement about the Bible's own categories of discourse, its special modes of literary expression and intentionality, and especially those social and religious factors that handed the Old Testament over to us, we have simply been thrown back on ourselves and the deeply felt convictions with which we began the process of interpretation.

«There's widespread agreement across religion and party lines about how Americans should act in the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden,» said Robert P. Jones, president of Public Religion Research Institute, which designed and conducted the survey in partnership with Religion News Service.

«There's widespread support in the industry for the rebate to be removed from NZ producers, but every time we raise this with decision makers in Canberra we run up against the argument of whether removing that entitlement will have broader ramifications on our trading agreements, not just with New Zealand but with other countries as well.

There seemed to be a widespread recognition that the 2012 Edinburgh Agreement to the referendum with Alex Salmond was based on the assumption that Cameron assumed Scotland would vote «No».

The prime minister is left with an agreement that is unlikely to be ratified before the UK leaves the EU and, were it to gain widespread attention, the potential breakdown of her promise to hard Brexiters to rip the UK from the jurisdiction of the ECJ.

«Disappointment with the package is widespread, but I think there is universal agreement that Heastie did everything possible in support of the Assembly's agenda.

I've been strategizing with leaders of the effort, and there is widespread agreement that this year's mayoral race is going to be very important for the future of this legislation.»

In a statement released on Wednesday, the Turaki Adamawa expressed agreement with the widespread reports of irregularities in some local governments of the state.

After meeting privately with a bipartisan group of business leaders at City Hall on Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio told members of the media that there is widespread agreement mayoral control of city schools must be extended by Albany lawmakers.

The statement «All man made chemicals cause cancer if you eat enough of them,» met with widespread agreement in the US (47 per cent), New Zealand (53 per cent) and Britain (57 per cent).

For instance, to explain the meaning of «to be citizens and economic participants in a democratic society» he says that «there is widespread agreement that an adequate system of education is one that «ensures that a child is equipped to participate in political affairs and compete with his or her peers in the labor market.

Widespread agreement that only a massive stimulus package could rescue the U.S. economy presented the new administration with the opportunity to placate both sides of the Democratic divide.

There appears to be widespread agreement that schools should not only produce graduates proficient in an agreed - upon set of thinking and learning skills like those embedded within the Common Core State Standards, but also students who work well together and are self - motivating, responsible learners with the ability to contribute to healthy enterprises.

Smashwords also announced recently that its agreements with various distribution partners have offered more widespread discovery for its authors» works, such as the agreement to place titles in OverDrive's catalog.

That said, there is fairly widespread agreement that Microsoft got everything wrong with the initial introduction and E3...

But more important than agreement with computer models is the fact that four years with no warming in the upper ocean does not erase the 50 years of warming we've seen since ocean temperature measurements became widespread....

There is widespread scientific agreement that hitting yours head with a hammer is a bad idea.

In contrast, model agreement on increases at +7 °C becomes less widespread than at lower warming, with the Tibetan Plateau, the Ethiopian Highlands, northeastern Siberia, and southwestern Canada still consistently experiencing higher.

We suggest that AMS should: attempt to convey the widespread scientific agreement about climate change; acknowledge and explore the uncomfortable fact that political ideology influences the climate change views of meteorology professionals; refute the idea that those who do hold non-majority views just need to be «educated» about climate change; continue to deal with the conflict among members of the meteorology community.

What it all means is that, with such widespread backing across so many levels of society, it's very unlikely that one withdrawal announcement will be the last word on the Paris Agreement.

The evidence of this happening is widespread and abundant, so that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007 was able to state with unanimous agreement from all of over 100 countries that global warming is unequivocal.

In fact, once you filter out the noise generated by special - interest groups, you discover that there is widespread agreement among environmental economists that a market - based program to deal with the threat of climate change — one that limits carbon emissions by putting a price on them — can achieve large results at modest, though not trivial, cost.

There is evidence that marginalized groups, including persons with disabilities, tend to experience poorer health outcomes, and widespread agreement that disparity in health outcomes is largely due to the social determinants of health, which are the poorer economic and social conditions experienced by them: Robin L. Nobleman, Are Health Problems Legal Problems in Disguise?

Under this agreement, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance will offer personal lines of insurance products such as health, personal accident, home, motor and travel along with commercial line of insurance products such as property, marine and engineering insurance, etc to the bank's customers, a joint statement said.The bank has widespread network of around 7,000 branches.The insurance company will also cater to the bank's significant base of rural and semi — rural customers by offering them its wide range of rural insurance products.

There is widespread agreement, among both liberals and conservatives, that the best point of intervention with these young couples would have been prior to their child's conception, rather than after the child's birth.

Although there is widespread agreement that competent parenting is related to better outcomes for children, there is little evidence about what parenting education should consist of, who should provide it, and how it should be delivered.40 Because volunteers came from varied backgrounds with different parenting experiences, they may not have agreed with the messages contained in the parenting curriculum and may have communicated this explicitly or implicitly to the teenager.