Sentences with phrase «widespread consensus as»

The area where the NBPTS ought to have the easiest time creating straightforward standards is high - school math and science teaching, where there is widespread consensus as to what teachers are supposed to do.

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This is what will ultimately be needed for the Greek economy to start going again as there is widespread consensus that the country will not be able to pay off its debts, no matter how hard the austerity measures.

That does not amount to a long tradition of treating sodomy as a right, but it does suggest a widespread (although not unanimous) consensus that the state should not criminalize such private conduct in the home.

That does not amount to along tradition of treating sodomy as a right, but it does suggest a widespread (although not unanimous) consensus that the state should not criminalize such private conduct in the home.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

Until then, everything remains largely as is despite the widespread consensus that mass adjustments should've already occurred.

Thought I can't stress enough how surprised I was seeing that the Xhaka deal was widespread across the internet: both reliable & garbage sources as well as a consensus on the fee.

That's a daunting challenge for any test maker, but it's further complicated by widespread fears of soaring failure rates and their political consequences, as well as by Arne Duncan's stipulation (in the federal grants that underwrite the assessment - development process) that the states belonging to each consortium must reach consensus on those passing scores (in government jargon, «common achievement standards»).

The selection of artist Jimbo Blachly and poet Lytle Shaw as editors of the Chadwick Family Papers is sufficiently eccentric to have given rise to the widespread consensus that the Chadwicks themselves are mere figments of their editors» febrile imaginations; a belief amply supported both by the indignities to which the archive itself has been subjected (Vaseline) and the fact that purported Chadwicks have appeared only in the heaviest and most peculiar of disguises (in suits of armor, or as Johnnie Walker look - alikes) and have borne a startling resemblance to their supposed employees.

The Heartland Institute, which has received funding from polluting industries such as Exxon and the Koch family, rejects the scientific community's widespread consensus that human activity causes climate change.

* Sereneti Strategy is necessary when there's widespread, even as high as a 97 % consensus of scientists knowing that climate - change is real.

And yes, I was vaguely cognizant of the widespread reports of academics claiming to be scientists, trying to pass off consensus as a form of evidence, and apparently succeeding — I mean, even President Obama fell for it — so why didn't I speak out?

And that's what I saw my role as being, to really communicate why it is that there is such a widespread consensus about human - caused climate change.

There is currently widespread public misunderstanding about the degree of scientific consensus on human - caused climate change, both in the US as well as internationally.

There is currently the widespread suspicion that Climate Science, as an endeavor, has been subject to a lot of bias and consensus enforcing which has skewed results and publication to specific «required» findings and policy recommendations.

The apparent bi-partisan consensus is not driven by a widespread apprehension of climate danger (latent or otherwise), but in large part by a common lack of faith in climate science and in lesser part by the question design, which can't distinguish between the two possible main motivations for affirmative responses as mentioned above (mainly within the Dem / Libs).

There is a very high probability that such a widespread, deep and longstanding consensus is essentially correct, and if it is our world as we know it will end anyway.

But there's now a widespread consensus that the problem doesn't start and end here — even as efforts to solve it are slowly making headway.

By far the biggest and and most obvious bought - for opinion is the «consensus», paid for as it is by the state, the organisation that stands to benefit most from a widespread belief in CAGW.

«So long as popular discussion could be about whether warming was occurring or not, so long as doubt was widespread, consensus for action could be postponed.»

First, they can build widespread consensus in the ecosystem around the need for a backwards - incompatible change so as to avoid a confusing chain split.

The fact that «parental alienation syndrome» is not identified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, Fifth Edition (DSM - V), for example, does not mean that parental alienation does not exist; as Warshak's consensus statement and other meta - analyses have demonstrated, parental alienation is much more widespread than is commonly assumed.