Let us therefore be realistic and not make the absence of consensus an excuse for inaction.

The absence of consensus on climate change, or resistance in Congress to new trade agreements, weakens the president s hand.

From the near consensus on the virtues of a finance centric model of the world, the economics profession has moved to a near total absence of consensus on what ought to be done.

Harnessing the existing broad consensus against fossil fuel subsidies is possible even in the absence of a legal agreement, and could quickly have a significant positive impact.

Russian and Chinese reticence about pressuring governments that deserve censure and sanction stems partly from such concerns the absence of consensus on Syria is just one result.

Tailoring also implies more individual projects (and therefore separate small budgets and reporting procedures), in the absence of a consensus on the establishment of thematic trust funds at the divisional level.

The Secretary General is therefore right when he says that consensus might be desirable but that its absence should not be taken as a pretext for inaction.

The Chairman said that, in the absence of a consensus on changing the order of discussion of the draft articles, the Commission would resume its discussion of draft article 19 bis at its next meeting.

The United Nations summit this year could not agree on language on disarmament and non proliferation for inclusion in the outcome document (resolution 60 1), thus signalling the absence of consensus on these issues.

If Morales had ever conceived a major revolutionary change in Bolivia, by early 2008 that project had dissipated, owing to the absence of a national consensus on the feasibility, intensity, and direction of such a transformation.

Absence of State party submissions

The Chairman suggested that, in the absence of a consensus on a specific direction to the Secretariat regarding the commentary, the Commission should authorize the Secretariat to establish the commentary on the basis of the reports of the Working Group.

Procedures in the absence of notification

Faced with absence.

Add to all this the French preference for ideological confrontation and the absence of a culture of negotiation and compromise, to say nothing of consensus, and one can understand why so many reform projects in France end up being contested in the streets.

Alwar Balasubramaniam Art of substance and absence

The absence of disease is not health.

The Perils of Economic Consensus

And attempting to force a decision in the absence of consensus would vitiate one of the strongest assets the Court has had the solidarity of its members in the face of efforts to undermine the project of an effective and independent international mechanism for justice and accountability.

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The Death of the Globalization Consensus

The Rise of the Beijing Consensus

Consensus on definition of issues of concern

The absence of such knowledge invites trouble, often disaster.

(In the absence of secretion, creatinine behaves like inulin.

After thirty years of absence, he finally returns home.

The São Paulo Consensus mandated UNCTAD to convene sectoral reviews of dynamic sectors of world trade (São Paulo Consensus, para.

A Berlin Consensus?

the absence of a sustainable system of financing of health care,

My mother died during my absence.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

In the absence of leaders no solution can be reached.

This condition usually occurs in the absence of a tumor.

Monetary coordination cannot succeed in the absence of fiscal harmonization.

Peace is not merely the state of the absence of violence.

Absence of the Chairperson at meetings of the Committee 102 20.

Their access to economic and legal information is limited because of the absence of relevant education, the absence in rural areas of a broad network of legal information centres, etc.

There is one remaining short statement which I will want to go on record with, and that is the following sentence I have concluded that there is an absence of consensus on the establishment of any particular subsidiary body or its mandate in the first two weeks of our annual session.

The role of regional integration in promoting the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus including the role of ESCAP in implementing the Consensus was emphasized.

The New Delhi Consensus

Consensus and cooperation activities

sickness absence prevention and support within companies.

Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus a regional perspective

Indian democracy has succeeded because it has maintained a consensus on how to manage without consensus.

Alcohol expectations can operate in the absence of actual consumption of alcohol.