In contrast, Sunni clerics are more concerned with scholarly consensus around new interpretation of Koranic law and principles, and that has meant little progress or fresh legal rulings on issues like stem cell research and assisted reproduction.
With just 16 months left in his administration, Mr. Bush can ill afford a nasty confirmation fight, and the White House had been extremely concerned about finding a consensus nominee — so much so that it found itself trying to fend off criticism not only from the left, but also the right.
The reason to oppose the Common Core standards is because they violate the well-established and internationally recognized process for setting standards in a way that is transparent, that recognizes the expertise of those who must implement them, that builds on the consensus of concerned parties, and that permits appeal and revision.
Consultation with the private sector has been undertaken to discuss and cooperate in the standardization process, because a consensus among all concerned parties is very important for establishing standards.
This means launching a new initiative that draws on the seeming consensus among the concerned peoples to both encourage their respective leaders to follow suit and discourage violent resistance.
Through the construction of a suitable Lyapunov Krasovskii functional and by the utilization of integral inequalities, new delay-dependent consensus conditions for the concerned system are derived in the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) which can be readily solved by utilizing any of the valid software packages.
There is a need for concerned scientists to reach a better consensus about the health effects of radiation and to communicate effectively with the lay public.
But fashion is too wayward now to produce a consensus, and women are much less concerned about finding the new than a clear, independent point of view.
Though Governor Christie's office later issued a statement in support of vaccines, it would help if he showed real leadership to a concerned public by facilitating their understanding of the scientific consensus, rather than play political games.
Out of 179 recommendations from the CAP consensus conference[ 3], our study only considered those which concerned test ordering and for which compliance could be assessed through analysis of laboratory data alone, i.e. in the absence of clinical correlation.
