Sentences with phrase «calls for reform from»

This followed similar calls for reform from the Law Commission; Sir Paul Coleridge, chairman of the Marriage Foundation; and Lord Wilson of Culworth, a Supreme Court judge.

Although the overall societal and financial implications of mass incarceration have prompted calls for reform from policymakers, advocates and activists, the needs of children who face increased risks and significant obstacles in life are usually overlooked.

As mounting calls for reform from both sides of the isle take shape, voters are right to question policies that will have lasting effects on their students; and AAE is eager to shine a spotlight on teacher opinions during this critical time.

Skelos» conviction brought a tidal wave of calls for reform from good government groups and reform - minded electeds.

NY1's Grace Rauh has more on the firm's co-founder, Jonathan Rosen, and the calls for reform from government watchdogs.

Not exact matches

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.

«This moment calls for compassionate people from across the political spectrum to have a difficult and honest conversation about comprehensive immigration reform.»

Today, as global markets nervously watch to see how much it will cost to save European banks from their willingness to make risky loans, critics around the world are calling for Hammurabi - style reforms to make sure financial institutions, not taxpayers, pay for future bad bets.

Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

They called for immediate steps to reopen banks and said any deal must address debt sustainability - code for reducing Athens» crushing debt - but gave no hint of concessions from the Greek side towards its creditors» demands for deep spending cuts and far - reaching reforms of pensions and labour markets.

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.

Tracing the course of the author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none of the established genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature» of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).

They called for churches and concerned Christians to lead the charge in reforming the drug policy and to look for new solutions to help those suffering from addiction.

The so - called Tridentine rite, of course, far from being «medieval» has roots deep in pre-medieval antiquity (it is in any case a strange view of history in which the Counter-Reformation took place in the middle ages), and is a living manifestation of the Newmanian principle of development, wherebya process of continuous change is inevitable if the essence of the Church's faith is to remain the same: for, as The Catholic Herald pointed out in its admirable leader, the reforms of Pope St Pius V, enshrined in the Missal of 1570, itself containing ancient elements, «were inspired by the Council of Trent.

The incident sparked weeks of protests and calls for police reform, including a proposition from California lawmakers to replace «reasonable force» terminology with a «necessary force» standard.

From the moment Pope Benedict announced his retirement voices in the media and from within the Church have been calling for refFrom the moment Pope Benedict announced his retirement voices in the media and from within the Church have been calling for reffrom within the Church have been calling for reform.

The controversial «Note on financial reform from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace» makes the international financial crisis, still unfolding around us in slow motion, the occasion for a renewed call for a «global political authority.»

A new policy paper from LARAC, released today (11 April), calls on the government to introduce direct charging for household waste collections and PRN reform to increase recycling and tackle the funding crisis crippling UK local authorities.

Catherine West, Labour MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, has tabled an Early Day Motion (used by MPs to publicise a particular cause and to gain support in the Commons) calling on the government to remove vulnerable road users from the reforms.

«In Begging for Change, Robert Egger looks back on his experience and exposes the startling lack of logic, waste, and ineffectiveness he has encountered during his years in the nonprofit sector, and calls for reform of this $ 800 billion industry from the inside out.»

Democrats were more than happy to seize on McGrath's insistence that he would not step away from his law practice if elected and, at the same time, was dismissive of calls for ethics reforms.

The substantial financial earnings made by individual Church of England Bishops from their privileged place within the House of Lords have come under scrutiny, leading to further calls from the British Humanist Association (BHA) for their removal as a part of the impending reforms to the upper chamber.

The reform instantly triggered an avalanche of requests for help from prisoners facing legal cases, with calls to the Howard League's advice line increasing by 45 %.

This animation from the Medical Defence Union (MDU) calls for legal reform to bring fairer compensation for medical claims.

Cuomo will be joined this morning on a telephone press conference by good government advocates who will add their voices to his call for pension fund reform that would change management of the fund from a sole trusteeship to a board system.

Even when referendums have not been held there have been calls for them on a variety of topics: from reforming the House of Lords, to Britain's membership of the EU.

The seemingly endless series of reports from parliamentary committees and expert organisations calling for reform of Britain's drug policy continued today, after a cross-party group of peers called for a change in the law.

They called for making the city's housing more livable, reforming housing court and addressing the serious health problems that result from lead paint, dust and cockroaches.

Corruption Trials and Two Reform Reports Make the Case for Action Now In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the -LSB-...]

The occasion for this insult was the latest open letter from the Democratic governor calling on Faso to «stand with his constituents» in opposition to the the federal tax reform law, which narrowly passed the House and Senate in December without a single Democratic vote — and without Faso's vote, either.

These reforms often involved changes in management style (for instance, the so - called «New Public Management» (NPM), in which concepts from the private sector such as competition, performance indicators, and bonus payments were applied to public administration) or the introduction of computer technology.

Even if Cameron wins the referendum following a negotiation that brings little immediate practical change there will be calls for more reforms from those that lost and perhaps from a Labour leadership that campaigned reluctantly to stay in.

Unlock Democracy's protest on Saturday succeeded in attracting support from Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and the group is hoping its efforts will help strengthen the party's resolve in calling for a referendum on electoral reform as coalition negotiations continue.

Even so, I would never suggest that those who call for an English Parliament should have their bank accounts frozen, advocates of Scottish independence banned from standing for office, or proponents of constitutional reform prevented from leaving the country, in the same way that dissidents in the Soviet Union were once denied exit visas.

Last week, de Blasio released a «roadmap» for phasing out the incarceration center, which mostly reiterated steps he called for when he announced a plan to shutter Rikers in March: combining sentencing, bail, mental health and rehabilitation reforms to reduce the city's inmate population from 9,300 to 7,000 by 2021 and 5,000 by 2027.

ALBANY — Mayor Bill de Blasio is getting a rare boost from a top Bloomberg aide, as former deputy mayor Howard Wolfson called Governor Andrew Cuomo's embrace of disability pension reform that police and fire unions are clamoring for «surprising and disappointing from a taxpayer perspective.»

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R,C,I - Schaghticoke), and Assemblyman Pete Lopez (R,C,I - Schoharie) today called for a «Spirit of «76» revolt by rank and file state legislators to clean up corruption and break the stranglehold on the Capitol that's been exerted by powerful leaders who time after time have prevented common sense reforms from becoming law in New York.

The piece features a photo of the Upper East Side congresswoman with the president at the bill - signing ceremony for her Credit Card Bill of Rights and a quote from Obama calling Maloney «tenacious, energetic and reform - minded — someone with good ideas and the know - how to get them done.»

Heavy on rhetoric but light on specifics, the statement from the party called for «targeted political action» to ensure the 124 MPs who voted against Lords reform last night do not keep their seats in the next election.

Instead, Astorino, the Republican county executive of Westchester took a direct shot at the Legislature, releasing a 10 - point ethics reform package that called for everything from term limits and a less generous state pension system for state lawmakers to an overhaul of the state's Byzantine campaign finance laws.

Editorial pages from New York City to Buffalo are calling for reform measures, and good government groups say Governor Cuomo, who came into office vowing to win back the public trust, may find his very legacy in jeopardy.

Following eight months of calls for ethics reform from Blakeman and King Sweeney, the board also passed 6 - 1 legislation concerning an inspector general / compliance officer, who would monitor possible waste and corruption within town government.

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.

A few days ago, the Kansas Reform Party state committee met via conference call and revised its presidential nominee from Chuck Baldwin (who doesn't really want to run for President) to Virgil Goode.

Mr Brown's comments attracted criticism from the Conservative party, who accused the prime minister of using calls for reform as a «smokescreen» distracting from the proxy donor scandal.

Following Schneiderman's fall from grace and this week's re-conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges, former Erie County Democratic Chairman Leonard R. Lenihan said doors have opened for new candidates while Schneiderman provided a «wake up call» that shines the political spotlight on reform.

Also at noon, faith and labor leaders, voters, and community members «demand morality, fairness and honesty» from elected officials, deliver petition signatures to Cuomo calling for «real» ethics reform, outside the governor's NYC office, 633 Third Ave., Manhattan.

The Center for Justice & Democracy has filed a formal ethics complaint with the Public Integrity Commission calling for an investigation into four Medicaid Redesign Team members whose employes stand to gain from the reforms / cost - cutting plan they helped devise and are now championing.

A coalition of schools groups — ranging from the umbrella organization for the state's teachers union and the Council on School Superintendents — called for a variety of funding reforms for districts around the state ahead of next year's budget negotiations.

Speaking with obvious excitement, he said he believed there was a real chance to address what he called the «overcriminalization of America,» thanks to unexpected support from Republicans for criminal justice reform.