Sentence examples for challenging consensus from inspiring English sources

"Why I think it's popular, and why I think it's so good, and why I'm really proud to be in it, is that it doesn't tell you what to think," says Cumming, referring to the show's formula of taking a toxic social issue, such as abortion, and challenging consensus views on the right and the left.

Our era's spirit of disapproval has triggered a widespread blandness and terror of challenging consensus, in everything from mainstream political discourse to the ordinary workplace, which makes the comedian or jester's traditional duty to shock and shake up more vital than ever.

Both of these capabilities are fascinating innovations, as they can potentially resolve challenging issues with consensus and scalability that plague existing blockchain approaches.

Inconsistent use of terms—such as acceptance, belief, understanding, and knowledge and difficulties measuring those constructs, has made it challenging to achieve consensus on the nature of the relationship between understanding and acceptance (Smith 2009; Southerland et al. 2001).

Yet many leaders are more focused on events and publicity than on the slow and challenging task of consensus building.

Sessions that had been poorly rated in the field testing and were thought to be too challenging by the consensus groups and online-survey respondents were simplified.

Three- and four-part fractures in patients over 60 years of age are especially challenging as scientific consensus on their treatment has yet to be established [ 21].

Among their most challenging tasks: formulating a consensus plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and shepherding a Supreme Court nominee to confirmation in the face of expected heavy Democratic resistance.

Inevitably, unanimity is generally easily and swiftly achieved where the European Union is simply giving effect to a UN measure; the development of and agreement to implement EU autonomous sanctions as explored further below is far more challenging as decisions require consensus across all 28 member states.

After 4 years, however, when it was clear that the matrix structure was a challenging model, the required consensus had emerged for going all the way and removing the product teams from the regional structure and transferring them to a global unit.

In order for the process to be completed, it is crucial that member states rise to the challenging task of reaching consensus on the remaining proposals in the June meeting.