Sentences with phrase «called for reforms in»

Noting that a third of people in the district are «almost at poverty level,» he called for reforms in the federal payroll tax.

As a result of the episode, lawmakers have called for reforms in how ballot language is written for constitutional amendments.

On 21 July, Nabil Amar, former Minister of Information and a cabinet member and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, was shot by masked gunmen, after an interview with a television channel in which he criticized Yasser Arafat and called for reforms in the PA. [95]

JCOPE has called for reforms in this area.

To call for a reform in the worship of God, however, implies that the churches» standing before God is flawed seriously enough to require a turnabout, the biblical word for which is «repentance.»

It would be unnecessary to labor this point except that sin is often conceived too narrowly either as something to be settled with God only, or on the other hand as merely calling for reform in human relations.

The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith.

http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?storyID=15932515 Coptic mass in Tahrir Square (1:14) Feb 6 — Coptic Christians hold a mass in Tahrir Square and add their voices those calling for reform in Egypt.

«The shocking abuse at this facility shows why so many Americans are calling for reforms in the pork industry.

Campaigners led by the charity Action For Children have called for the reform in order to punish those who make their children's life a misery with an unrelenting campaign of emotional degradation.

Already, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and others have renewed calls for reforms in the wake of the convictions of two men who were once among the most powerful in the state.

With Holder's death as motivation, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis last session sponsored a bill to prevent criminals from getting out of jail, and on Thursday, repeated her calls for reform in drug sentencing.

So far, the growing scandal has not brought about any serious calls for reform in New York.

Newell, who has long called for reform in Albany, said the result was no surprise, especially in light of the «broken political process» for filling a vacant Assembly seat.

Newell, who has long called for reform in Albany, ran a grassroots campaign to unseat Silver in 2008.

But this recent spate of errors also points to more fundamental flaws in how the UN panel assesses climate science, leading to intensified calls for its reform in recent weeks.

While a significant focus of civil justice reform has been on the cost and delay of discovery, IAALS has heard the call for reform in the area of motions practice as well, which can similarly result in great cost and delay to the parties.

These opinions have sparked widespread discussion and criticism in the call for reform in the next Copyright Act.

As noted in earlier blogposts, the 4th Judicial Five Year Plan calls for reforms in judicial statistics:

-- Students call for reforms in Tallahassee: Thousands of students rallied Wednesday outside the Florida Capitol to demand changes to gun laws in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre where 17 people were killed and 16 wounded.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has been calling for reforms in the way that medical service providers, including nursing homes, receive reimbursement for their work.

Not exact matches

Although the trend would likely be in that direction, he has proven to be a compromiser (and a dealmaker, as he likes to call himself) when it comes to achieving his objectives and for him all options to achieving those objectives (for example, deficit reform) are up for negotiation, including those on the revenue side.

And within a span of six weeks this fall, Hillary Clinton caused a drop in biotech stocks with a tweet calling for greater regulation of drug prices, then single - handedly tanked stocks of private - corrections companies when she tweeted about prison reform.

In 2011, the Delta Kappa Epsilon International Fraternity issued a blithe response to calls for reform after the «no means yes» chants.

Sen. Rubio has discussed immigration during debates, but has not been asked about his participation in the so - called «Gang of 8,» which led a bipartisan push for comprehensive immigration reform just two years ago.

Perth's established suburbs accounted for just 28 per cent of all urban land development in 2012, well below the long - term «infill» target of 47 per cent, prompting calls for regulatory reform from the Property Council of Australia.

While the book is stuffed with helpful big picture observations, it doesn't offer much in the way of specific on - the - ground ideas — though Keen does call for reforms to data privacy and gig economy labor laws, and for a serious discussion of a universal basic income.

He created a group of eight cardinals to advise him on reform, which a church historian calls the «most important step in the history of the church for the past 10 centuries.»

Business organizations like the Chamber of Commerce have called for immigration reform, saying immigrants are good for the economy while advocating a tough but «fair process for undocumented people who are living in our country today to earn a legal status.»

Candidate Hillary now talks up the need for criminal justice reform to undo the 1994 crime bill her husband championed; decries the wages on American workers of NAFTA and subsequent free - trade deals he ushered in; and calls for cracking down on a financial sector he helped deregulate.

Clinton, a former secretary of state and U.S. senator, decried the spate of shootings, including the most recent murders of police in Baton Rouge, and she called for criminal justice reform.

In responding to a question about how the Dreamers fit into the United States» future workforce, Trump also called for comprehensive immigration reform.

Calls for reform to penalty rates are likely to grow louder following last month's rise in unemployment in Western Australia.

There are growing calls for electoral reform in Italy to prevent hung parliaments in the future.

In the weeks after the deadly Parkland, Florida, school shooting, Trump has, at turns, been sympathetic to student survivors who are demanding action to address gun violence, and he has sought to appease gun - rights proponents who are impervious to calls for reform.

At the same time, others warn that loud calls for banking reform to help smaller institutions is akin to a wolf - in - sheep's - clothing mission to win relief for bigger banks, too.

But in the years since, the SEC has also been overwhelmed by the task of implementing dozens of rules called for under the 2010 Dodd - Frank financial reform law and the 2012 JOBS Act, which aims to make it easier for small businesses to raise money.

The tense negotiations over Greece's debt come as the Greek government struggles to find a consensus to pass the budget reforms demanded by its so - called troika of lenders — the European Central Bank, European Union and International Monetary Fund — in exchange for releasing the next installment of bailout money, a 30 billion euro ($ 38.3 billion) payout scheduled to be released in March.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

The draft proposal of Greece's creditors consists of two documents with the first called «Reforms for the Completion of the Current Program and Beyond» and the second document is called «Preliminary Debt Sustainability Analysis», the Greek government said in its proposed question.

And the conditionalities, the so - called reforms, are an Orwellian term for anti-reform, for cutting back pensions, for rolling back the progress that the labor movement has made in the last half century.

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

Further, statements contained in this document and made on such call that are not statements of historical fact, including those that refer to plans, assumptions and expectations for the current fiscal year and future periods, are forward - looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

«One of the most contrarian calls we have made this year is that US profit repatriation flows following the recent tax reform will be bullish for the USD,» the analysts wrote in a note to clients Thursday.

«Housing Policy Experts Call For Recapping and Reforming Fannie and Freddie, Oppose Jumpstart GSE Reform Language in Omnibus.»

APEC's founding coincided with the sudden burst on the global scene of the Asian growth miracle, led by the «tigers» — Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore — and just as Deng Xioping issued his remarkable call for economic reform in China.

Trump to call for regulatory review President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday that establishes a framework for scaling back the Dodd - Frank financial reform law enacted in the wake of the global financial crisis.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has echoed the NDP's calls for Senate abolishment, and in an odd pre-election maneuver, Mr. Harper tacitly endorsed the abolishment of the Senate if it could not be reformed (this took place after he appointed more than 50 Conservatives to the Senate, including Mike Duffy, Patrick Brazeau and Pamela Wallin).

(5) In light of all this, some have called for U.S. Congressional action, and there's been legislation drafted to address Puerto Rico's fiscal crisis that will allow for both restructuring and reform going forward.

The budget calls for tax reform that largely mirrors the House GOP's «Better Way» plan, though it does not mention much of the aspects that would pay for the changes in «Better Way» or other ways to make up for the revenue loss from the rate reductions it calls for.