Sentences with phrase «control over reform»

Data released by states in recent years, however, suggests districts actually have considerable control over reform implementation.

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Proposed board reforms to Canada's deposit - taking institutions and insurance companies under the new guidelines include: appointing directors with relevant financial services experience; more board control over enterprise risk; enhanced director training, self - assessment and external reviews; and certain powers that allow boards to better direct and monitor management.

«The central government will still need to take the social impact (notably unemployment) of these reforms into account, and it also is keen to maintain its control over these SOEs, and as such, their full scale privatization is unlikely.»

Republicans say their tactics on tax reform are at the very least no worse than the debate over the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, which passed through a Democratic - controlled Congress in 2010.

Over the last few months, merchant lobbying groups have stormed Capitol Hill requesting two things: that lawmakers sink federal tax reform by opposing border adjustability and that they support federal price controls on debit interchange fees.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It remained unclear to what extent Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — seen as the de facto ruler of the country — was using the probe as a political tool to increase his control over the kingdom, while he continues to pursue a radical economic reform program.

In Nuremberg the burghers had, already prior to the Reform movement, taken over many aspects of life previously controlled by the Church.

«We must push for genuine agrarian reform where farmers will have control over the land, and other necessary resources for food production,» Flores added.

Aliansi Gerakan Reform Agrari (AGRA), a national peasant federation in Indonesia in statement expressed that «Indonesia, as with the whole region, is also threatened by the growing corporate control over agriculture and consequent erosion of traditional seed resources.

In a piece written two days after the presidential election («The Fate of Hungry Kids in a Trump Administration,» cross-posted in Civil Eats), I expressed my own grave concerns over the fate of school food reform and other child nutrition programs under a Trump White House and a Republican - controlled Congress.

In another recent Washington Post article, several experts predicted that the popularity of school food reform and cultural shifts regarding obesity over the last eight years would serve as a check on Trump and the new Republican - controlled Congress, while others seemed less sure.

These reforms aren't just the leader taking control over the party machinery but the Left preparing for life after chants of Oh Je - rem - y Cor - byn.

A video of Coeymans police killing a rabid raccoon last Monday by chasing it down and running over it over with their vehicles that went viral spurred a call for statewide animal control reform.

Faced with losing the ballot line to a challenger who tapped into resentment over his estate tax cuts, charter - school championing and failure to deliver campaign finance reform, Governor Andrew Cuomo won the party's designation only after promising to fight for Democratic control of the state Senate and deliver a progressive policy wish list.

Hoping to capitalize on Democratic anger over the election of President Trump, Mayer and other Democrats argue the Westchester contest is critical to their hopes of controlling the Senate and enacting legislation long sought by progressives, including new gun control measures, campaign finance and ethics reforms, and a bill to strengthen New York's abortion laws.

The highest elected official to ever win an election on a Reform Party ticket, Ventura left the Reform Party a year after taking office amid internal fights for control over the party.

They are forming an Efficiency and Reform Group to extend No 11's control over the government.

[There is a] very strong Conservative case for reform — the whole thrust last election was moving power from the centre to the voters and the whole Conservative approach to having a smaller government, limited government and having better parliamentary control over executive.»

Like, if the Republicans continue to control the Senate thanks to a Cuomo - approved gerrymander plus five defections that the governor was perfectly OK with, and then over the course of the next couple of years their conference blocks campaign finance reform and drug reform and a hike of the minimum wage, doesn't it become somewhat more difficult for Cuomo to explain to Democratic primary voters why he didn't just do something about it?

Committee backers have received over $ 1 billion in economic development subsidies from an out - of - control and unaccountable system which the Cuomo administration has declined to reform.

Leslie's article in the Telegraph today calls for broader reforms of a system which, she says, Nicholson once boasted he had «Stalin - like» control over.

Three of the four legislative leaders have signed former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's pledge to reform the redistricting process by handing over control to a nonpartisan commission.

For nearly an hour on Thursday, Governor Andrew Cuomo defended the accomplishments of the legislative session and blamed the Legislature for high - profile disagreements over extending mayoral control of New York City and failing to achieve ethics reform

The Coalition government has stated that the proposed abolition of CMEC and transfer of its powers to the DWP will enable Ministers to have more direct control, responsibility, and accountability over the: delivery of child maintenance strategic and operational policy, and ongoing and future reform of child maintenance.

After all, the 2010 Constitutional Reform and Governance Act codifies a degree of parliamentary control over treaty - making in general.

The shift to the right is a sign of Cameron's increased need to day - to - day practical control over his party, as it became nearly ungovernable in the wake of rebellions over House of Lords reform and Europe.

Flanagan tried to smooth things over by including «common sense» reforms to the SAFE Act among his top end - of - sesison priorities this year, even though he would be the first to admit that's more or less a non-starter with the Democrat - controlled Assembly and the governor.

That is an aim we're fulfilling through public service reform — as in schools, where parents are getting more control than ever before over their children's education.

Democratic lawmakers hope New York will end cash bail for non-violent offenses — a reform made more complicated by the uncertainty over who may control the state Senate in the coming weeks.

As budget negotiations — which are conducted behind closed doors among the governor and three top legislative leaders, out of sight of even other lawmakers — unfolded over the past week, it became increasingly clear that the Legislature would punt policy issues such as gun control or bail reform to after the budget's April 1 deadline, in favor of financial considerations.

Squinting into a bright noon sun, the former LaFayette School Superintendent reiterated the main talking points that have defined her candidacy up to now: more police on the streets to fight crime, mayoral control over a struggling school district, and ethics reform.

The new coalition points to a number of potential changes to the constitution that they would like to see, including the creation of a public financing system for campaigns, election reforms like same - day registration, court reforms to make it easier to navigate the judicial system and the ability for local municipalities to exercise greater control over issues they traditionally need state authority to manage.

However intelligent and effective the reform bill is, it interferes with the control that both governors have wielded over the Port Authority, and both men dearly love control.

Among them are term limits for state legislators, election reforms like same - day voter registration and stronger anti-corruption measures, and «home rule» provisions that would give New York City more control over how it taxes and spends.

Political observers say the ability to tweak district lines is crucial to the Republicans» ability to stay in power, and they have been loath to cede any control over the process — their reform bill, which passed the Senate in March, sets in motion a constitutional change that would not take effect for a decade.

She said that she would like to see consideration of changes that give the City Council more control over the way money is budgeted and spent by city agencies, among other reforms.

And a relatively clean way for the Liberals to abort an electoral reform agenda over which they lost control.

And yet as far as ethics reforms go, the result of the indictment of the man many saw as the most powerful man in «the room,» a man who controlled the Assembly for over two decades, was

And yet as far as ethics reforms go, the result of the indictment of the man many saw as the most powerful man in «the room,» a man who controlled the Assembly for over two decades, was actually quite routine.

True, the Democrat controlled assembly over the months of its last session didn't act to reform the state's eminent domain laws as Rell requested, and were obviously loath to limit a power urban pols love.

«It is my hope that this government will make radical reforms in the bureaucratic control over research.»

Economic reforms in the late 1990s helped encourage production through the designation of land, decentralization of control over land - use licensing and a subsidization credit to smaller shareholders.

Economists say some caution is understandable given many of the reforms mean handing over controls to market forces and coming months will show how quickly the authorities want to go.

The academies» study also stressed that concerns over proliferation of nuclear weapons may continue to outweigh the need to reform Western export controls, at least until Russia establishes effective export controls of its own.

Envisioning a Better Model — Over time, the emphasis of health care reform in Massachusetts shifted from expanding access to controlling costs and improving the quality of health care.

Dr. Peden has written or contributed to more than 160 peer - reviewed scientific publications on the kinetics and mechanisms of automobile exhaust catalysis; the development of zeolite catalysts for diesel engine emission control; hydrocarbon reforming over bimetallic catalysts; the structure of hydroprocessing catalysts; the development of novel, supported solid acid catalysts for petroleum refining; the growth and properties of oxide and semiconductor thin films; and model studies of adhesion at metal / metal - oxide interfaces.

In the early»60s, the Czech government began a series of cultural reforms aimed at easing controls over what artists could say and do in their work.

a undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance, and natural resources in accordance with national laws

Critics warn that unions will agree to only those reforms that tighten their control over the teaching profession and the educational enterprise.