Sentences with phrase «without needed reforms»

Without needed reforms that assure that asserted patent rights are legitimate, the ability of businesses owned by REALTORS ®, many of which are small businesses, to grow, innovate and better serve modern consumers will be put at risk.

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Populorum Progressio, the pope notes, «repeatedly underlines the urgent need for reform, and in the face of great problems of injustice in the development of peoples, it calls for courageous action to be taken without delay.»
The deep changes needed in our world can not occur without the self - reform of major institutions.
I wish the reformation had stuck to reforming due to Rome's excesses without the need to introduce these absurd beliefs to set them «apart from Rome.»
But in order to accept this position we need first to reform our standard notions of perception; and this reformation will not occur without a conversion to the radical empiricism of attending once again to our experiencing itself.
Poverty indeed is the strenuous life — without brass bands or uniforms or hysteric popular applause or lies or circumlocutions; and when one sees the way in which wealth - getting enters as an ideal into the very bone and marrow of our generation, one wonders whether a revival of the belief that poverty is a worthy religious vocation may not be «the transformation of military courage,» and the spiritual reform which our time stands most in need of.
«New Yorkers are barely hanging on after years of economic turmoil,» Mermel said, «We need a new team to tackle economic issues head on without conflicts of interest or ethical baggage that would hinder or prevent real reform
If leave time were limited to grievances and labor / managment issues (both of which are unquestionably state business), it would be a major reform, without hurting legitimate representation needs.
The Governor prioritized education spending in his budget proposal, including growth that is twice what would be allowed under the cap.9 To truly prioritize education the State should reform the Foundation Aid formula to ensure the highest needs districts are properly funded without unnecessarily sending aid to the wealthiest districts.
The Connecticut legislature adjourns without passing any reform legislation re eminent domain, but does agree an ombudsman is needed.
He acknowledged that although many institutions need to be reformed, the NYPD repeatedly states that more officers are needed to fix problems — but this, he said, is insufficient without policing being done in the best way possible.
We need to take the demand for reform onto the streets now there is widespread public sentiment for a fair system where people can vote honestly and have an influence, without all the dreadful calculations of tactical advantage that is, frankly, corrupting.
Every year that passes without proper reform, is another year that tens of thousands of teenagers leave school without the qualifications they really need.
The actual reforms he is backing are mainly procedural - such as exchanging evidence between both sides of a case without needing hearings and improving the administration of courts.
At the end of my email, you'll find a lot of information about health insurance reform, distilled into 8 ways reform provides security and stability to those with or without coverage, 8 common myths about reform and 8 reasons we need health insurance reform now.
«It's as important a crisis as any we're facing right now, and we should not finalize a state budget without providing for the reforms needed at the MTA.»
Calling it «probably one of the longest e-mails I've ever sent,» Axelrod split his message up into three topics: «8 ways reform provides security and stability to those with or without coverage,» «8 common myths about reform,» and «8 reasons we need health insurance reform now.»
«We believe... that these reforms will actually make the council stronger, not weaker,» he said, pointing to the fact that 30 people had signed onto the reforms without any need for coercing.
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And the speaker won't give up power without a fight: The Senate needs the governor on board for reform to have any hope.
They argued that the city's land use approval process obviously needs to be reformed, since large development plans can be implemented without any real role for communities in the decision - making process.
is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;
As further evidence of his commitment, Gordon Brown was offering them electoral reform without even the need for a referendum.
He added that the bill included «modernising reforms» which would «ensure strikes only happen as a result of a clear, positive decision by those entitled to vote», saying «members of the public need to know they can get on with their lives without unjustified disruption».
Regardless of how you feel about the Tories» NHS reforms the fact that they've been in power for most of the period since 1948 without ever looking like abolishing it, and in any case are now mostly doing things that the last Labour government also did when in power, means an election pitch which relies on convincing voters that if the Tories remain in office they'll actually destroy the NHS is simply not plausible to the sort of people Labour needs to win over.
What's more, «[a] continued loss of postdocs without an alternative source of talented research personnel» for university labs portends harm to the «quality and quantity of our biomedical research,» making the need for reform more urgent than ever.
How do we reform a system that is so corrupted by greed, power, competition, materialism, and scientific dogma without demonizing those who need our love and know not what they do?
If education reform could be accomplished simply by identifying and closing bad schools while expanding good ones, everything could be fixed already without any need for school choice.
Instead, it focuses on three specific challenges that are often encountered when districts, especially small districts, grapple with the costs of their highest - need special - education students, and it makes three recommendations that districts and states could put into practice today, without waiting for reforms or help from Washington, as they seek ways to mitigate those problems:
The growing consensus on steps needed to reform elementary science education will not produce results without the «purposeful involvement» of the federal government, a forthcoming report contends.
That project, overseen by Stanford University researchers, produced a series of studies concluding that the schools needed more money but that, without significant reforms, no amount of money would produce much change.
But critics say that standards - based reforms may simply exacerbate existing inequalities if sanctions are applied to low - performing students without giving them the resources and help they need to succeed.
So we've been creating an infrastructure of school reform without addressing directly and comprehensively an essential element needed to make it work — students» desire to learn more.
Due Process Teacher Discipline Without Delay: Reforming Section 3020 - a of the Education Law to Meet the Needs of the 21st Century
«We spend over half our state budget on education and yet we throw money at it without adopting the reforms we need to make it effective.
I tried mocking it: «If education reform could be accomplished simply by identifying and closing bad schools while expanding good ones, everything could be fixed already without any need for school choice.
This proposal reinforces the recurring view in recent American school «reform» that schools can be improved by competition and metrics tied to sanctions or incentives, without investments in the capacity of educators to learn how to meet the demands of new standards and the needs of an increasingly diverse student body.
If the administration pushes for a new program to help states expand pre-K without addressing the need for a comprehensive reform of the existing total package of federal pre-K spending, a chance for real reform will have been lost.
No Child Left Behind (the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — ESEA) has forced the direction of education «reform» without bringing to the table those who understand the needs of our communities and our children — the real stakeholders — the People.
While funding and curriculum / testing reform are significant endeavors that need the new governor's attention, he must also look towards an impending problem for all of New Jersey's school: the teaching profession is far less attractive today than it was a decade ago, and without a strong plan to reverse that, funding and curriculum changes will falter.
Vouchers undermine this vital function, however, by diverting desperately needed public resources away from the public school system to fund the education of a few students at private schools — without offering any actual reforms.
Unless you're fortunate enough to live in a state without income tax, you'll need to take this tax reform - related issue to heart as you do your tax planning for 2018.
«Mexico is aware this is the end of the oil era, so we need to implement this fiscal reform — and if we go through it, we'll be able to do without this oil,» Porfirio Munoz Ledo, a Mexican politician, told the BBC.
We all know that one of the favorite arguments of the so - called «tort reform» crowd is that the pharmaceutical industry needs complete immunity because without it, the expense of litigation will stifle innovation of new drugs (see here, here, and here).
«The number - one tax related concern of small businesses today is the possible elimination of deductions and credits without an offsetting reduction in tax rates,» stated NSBA Chair Pedro Alfonso of Dynamic Concepts, Inc. in Washington, D.C. «The need for broad tax reform — and not just a tinkering here and there — is a real need for millions of American small businesses.»
«No matter how much we reform our family law and criminal justice systems — and heaven knows they need substantial reform — the government can't expect LSS to switch from a staff lawyer service model to a private lawyer service model without substantially incentivizing the private bar to take on legal aid files.»
It may very well be that without radical reform of the justice system, addressing the needs of the people in gap requires providing them with actual legal services, which in turn might mean undoing a decade and a half of funding cuts to Canada's legal aid programs.
In terms of specific proposals to reform privacy rules, Vladeck suggests Facebook needs to create systems that ensure third parties do not have access to user data «without safeguards that are effective, easy to use, and verifiable».
Silbert tells AdvocateDaily.com the legislation will change the Children's Law Reform Act, the Vital Statistics Act and 39 other statutes to ensure the partner of a birth parent can be legally recognized as a parent without the need for a court order.
While the need for more effective services to communities in the Northern Territory is recognized, concerns have been raised because of the limited amount of consultation planned with the communities regarding these reforms and the stated intention of the Northern Territory Government to initiate legislation for the reforms in any case without the necessary compliance of the Councils.
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