Sentences with phrase «with near unanimity»

The amendments relating to trading stock on a blockchain were added at the last minute to a host of amendments related to recognizing blockchain transactions, all of which were passed with near unanimity.

The scientific community is certain with near unanimity that man - made global warming is disrupting Earth's climate and that remedies are urgently needed.

With near unanimity, all groups in the survey agreed that this is important.

Brown signs bill spelling out evaluations (for principals) Ed Source: Without the acrimony and fanfare that doomed a teacher evaluation bill last month, the Legislature with near unanimity passed and Gov. Brown has now signed a milestone principal and teacher evaluation bill.

The scientific community is certain with near unanimity that man - made global warming is disrupting Earth's climate and that remedies are urgently needed.

Though a governor, unlike a president or member of Congress, has virtually no influence on foreign affairs, the state's political class with near unanimity supports Israel in its armed conflicts.

We found that in the latter half of the 20th century Christian churches have proclaimed with near unanimity their rejection of supersessionism and their affirmation that God's covenant with Israel has not been revoked.

Not exact matches

Boulder's residents believe, with seemingly near unanimity, that this lifestyle is worth preserving.

With an evenly split Senate and essentially a divided House (Democrats would need near unanimity to pass a budget), shouldn't we hold members of both parties equally accountable for reaching consensus?

It seems that the definition of «consensus» varies by field, just as the decision - making framework does, with unanimity or near unanimity expected from the scientific community, even including those scientists who in many cases have not really embedded themselves in the literature nor been required to put together a coherent assembly and analysis of scientific knowledge (and even including, somehow, CEI's [Competitive Enterprise Institute] lawyers with their ExxonMobil support, who are often quoted as the contrary view in papers on the science of climate change).

Normally, getting scientists to agree with such near - unanimity is like herding cats.

In an April 1, 2012 column in The New York Times, Prof. Richard H. Thaler of the U-Chicago Booth School of Business aptly summed up the near - unanimity among economists that carbon taxing is the optimal way to reduce CO2 emissions: «Consider a recent poll of a panel of economists conducted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where I teach... [Forty - one] economists in [a poll conducted by the] University of Chicago... were asked whether they agreed with this statement: «A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles.»

The irony to me is we in this post appear to have near - unanimity on the inability to conclude anything (project with meaningful confidence) about the future from the GISS data alone.