| Farnell was invited to be a discussant, but had to cancel plans to attend in person at the last minute. |
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| The most interesting work experience was having to be a discussant for three erudite papers the afternoon that I landed in Budapest. |
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| I would be remiss in my role as discussant if I did not raise a few other important econometric issues related to the paper. |
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| As another discussant put it, there did not need to be a revolution in working methods, as the Council was the master of its own procedures. |
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| In sum, what follows represent discussant remarks in response to spoken presentations by experts with experience measuring social networks. |
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| The unity of the permanent members on some matters was quite impressive, according to one discussant. |
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| The legitimacy of the Council, noted another discussant, was derived largely from the respect that United Nations Members have for it. |
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| Another discussant called for more regular meetings among the Presidents of the three bodies. |
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| Some workshops also use a designated discussant to introduce the discussion period. |
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| Questions from the discussant and the audience focused on the transferability of the Canadian experience to other national statistical systems. |
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| On the whole, stressed the discussant, India has shown great prudence and reticence in dealing with its immediate neighbourhood, including China. |
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| Mr. Winters, the discussant, said that migration was not particularly a deterministic phenomenon. |
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| Noting that one participant had earlier dismissed the issue of working methods as a sideshow, one discussant suggested that this was illustrative of the difference between permanent and non-permanent members. |
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| One discussant observed that preventive diplomacy was more a role for the Secretariat, as opposed to the Council, and that the Council should encourage it to be more active in this sphere. |
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| The value of presidential statements, one discussant reminded other participants, derived not from their length but from their specificity and concreteness. |
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| The panel discussant indicated that the significance of border issues between China and India will decrease in the future relative to other forms of competition. |
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| According to another discussant, the role of the Council had changed, as its decisions now affected international law, with the Council becoming a quasi-judicial or quasi-legislative body. |
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| Jeremy Stein of Harvard University, a discussant of Mr Greenspan's Brookings paper, points out that low policy rates may have mattered a great deal for income-constrained borrowers. |
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| The dissent problem can also take another form in which it is not the authority of one of the discussant, but rather the one of the group as a whole that is at stake. |
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| A second discussant suggested that, given the large United Nations presence in Africa, an annual visit to West Africa and the Great Lakes region would be a good idea. |
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| I would like to thank Cynthia Ruder, whose comments as panel discussant helped me to rework my original paper. |
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| Another discussant contended that the Commission was a body with purely advisory functions that should not be seen as an instrument of economic and financial aid to countries on its agenda. |
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| Transparency was not always an asset, countered another discussant. |
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| For example, Edward Ney, Bush's ambassador to Canada, was a discussant on a panel covering Latin America and proceeded to speak about his experience in Ottawa. |
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| An expert in the field serves as a Discussant to place the research findings into context. |
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