Locke's observation was that such arguments do not advance us towards truth, but that they can serve to promote agreement or stall disagreement.
Incentives for HIV testing may promote agreement to testing by men.
For questions that the course was designed to promote agreement with, the "strongly agree" and "agree a little" response was coded as one (1) with other responses coded as zero (0).
However, with regards to "publicity", this criterion was not met; despite efforts to ensure plurality of the decision-making group to promote agreement in the absence of public consultation, an imbalance in representation was observed.
Through these mechanisms, whole of government approaches are seen as promoting agreement, collaboration and the straightening out of inconsistent policies [ 14, 31].
Some examples include: wastage of resources required to obtain consent from large numbers (n = 2), an understanding of data linkage process promotes agreement for research to be conducted without consent (n = 2), and that the ability to conduct research is 'more important than one individual's right to give consent or not' (n = 1).
The Europeans, keen to offset a huge trade deficit, lined up along Mr Wen's route to promote new agreements and contracts on everything from sustainable development to space technology.
A cut in capital-gains tax delivers the larger part of its benefits not to investors in new assets but to owners of assets that already exist: in itself, this windfall does little to promote growth.An agreement for accountantsIf this budget agreement scores badly on long-term fiscal prudence and incentives to growth, it fails miserably on other basic tests of good fiscal policy.
In 1998, they performed in Belfast days prior to the vote on the Good Friday Agreement, bringing Northern Irish political leaders David Trimble and John Hume on stage to promote the agreement.
French president Nicolas Sarkozy telephoned his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, on Thursday to promote the agreement and discuss the upcoming G20 summit.
