Sentences with phrase «current system of government»

[119] The kit included information on the current system of government, referendum processes, and background information on the referendum questions themselves.

Acemoglu, for one, says he does not anticipate a sea change in Egypt's current system of government any time soon.

«It provides an excellent glimpse into the people, politics, and maneuvering that surrounded the creation of our current system of government.»

Not exact matches

The current round of hand - wringing over pensions got its start in late 2007, when the British Columbia and Alberta governments appointed the Joint Expert Panel on Pension Standards to examine the existing retirement system.

Even as national governments accept that the current taxation system needs to be altered, the path forward is fraught with difficulties, with some countries warning that a new levy could discourage digital use and push customers to products outside of Europe.

On June 8, as the investigation proceeded, the incident response team shared with relevant agencies that there was a high degree of confidence that OPM systems containing information related to the background investigations of current, former, and prospective Federal government employees, and those for whom a federal background investigation was conducted, may have been exfiltrated.

Our society is ingrained with the current monetary system of fiat money, where governments issue it, they can put out as much of it as they want.

Current government policy was «not to run large operational pieces of infrastructure like an eLoran system», he added.

The impact of higher oil prices on the country's current account deficit and inflation rate, the Indian banking system's struggles with demonetization, scandals, bad loans and a government looking ahead to next year's general election have all taken a toll on investor sentiment.

Without those attributes, there will be a limit of as to how much capital will migrate away from the current security and comfort of today's government - issued currency system.

Therefore, it is unclear whether a BC NDP government would use future carbon tax increases as a net revenue generator for government, or whether an NDP government would follow the current system of returning to taxpayers the collected revenue in the form of tax savings for individuals and businesses.

The news of Greek finance minister Varoufakis» resignation is being perceived as an incremental positive for negotiations, but we think the «No» vote in Greece over the first weekend in July, the precarious position of the Greek banking system, and eurozone policymaker distrust of the current Greek government have clearly raised the chances of a Greek eurozone exit.

If you are 55 or under and hope to enjoy some of those benefits you have been paying into from your paychecks for the last 30 years, of which the Government has borrowed 5 trillion dollars for other spending such as defense and tax breaks for the rich, which is why the current social security system is in jeopardy, then you will be voting for Obama.

What is worrisome about the current situation is that governments and global governance, confronted with drifting, do not draw appropriate conclusions and do not declare independence from the ideological normative framework which has led to the implosion of the system.

The publication gives a multitude of examples of the severe violations of the right to food and nutrition that the current food system is provoking: from forced evictions and land grabbing by companies or corrupted members of governments, as illustrated by the articles on Mexico and on the Arab Spring, to inappropriate food supply programs or speculative investments in agrofuels, described in the articles on Bangladesh, Paraguay and the Philippines.

Of course the current system is the only way to deliver strong one - party Governments that get things done.

Recent scandals involving the movement of individuals between government and the private sector — such as the cases of Geoff Hoon and Andy Coulson — have highlighted the corruption vulnerabilities left open by the current system.

The presence of a power - sharing government increases the attention on the 2013 election because many politicians view the current system as unmanageable.

When the current coalition government introduced the Fixed - term Parliaments Act in 2011, the case appeared compelling: The Government believes that fixed - term Parliaments will have a positive impact on our country's political system; providing stability, discouraging short - termism, and preventing the manipulation of election dates for political government introduced the Fixed - term Parliaments Act in 2011, the case appeared compelling: The Government believes that fixed - term Parliaments will have a positive impact on our country's political system; providing stability, discouraging short - termism, and preventing the manipulation of election dates for political Government believes that fixed - term Parliaments will have a positive impact on our country's political system; providing stability, discouraging short - termism, and preventing the manipulation of election dates for political advantage.

[278] UK government pensions minister Steve Webb said in May 2014 that Scots would be entitled to the current levels of state pension after independence because they had accumulated rights within the existing system.

He also expressed optimism that when the 2016 edition takes place, it will consolidate on the gains of the current efforts of government at all levels in improved infrastructure, more efficient business support services, improved public transport system and a more secured and business friendly environment, would have materialized.

The government on Wednesday set out areas of agreement between it and the joint committee: a mainly elected chamber, elected members voted on a system of single transferable vote, staggered elections with one third coming up for renewal at a time, peers to serve 15 - year terms, current peers to leave in stages, a reduced number of peers, and powers to expel peers.

The Welsh Government has launched a consultation proposing to replace the current «opt - in» system of organ donation with the «soft opt - out» system, becoming the first part of the UK to do so.

«I think the current welfare system does need reform and I don't disagree on the principles with which the Government is working, but it can not be at the cost of casting people into destitution,» he added.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

Syracuse, NY — If Green Party candidate for mayor in Syracuse Howie Hawkins had his way, the current system of city government would scrapped and replaced by a system of what he calls «grassroots democracy and proportional representation.»

And, he added, our current electoral system is really about choosing a government, not representatives of the people.

The problem of our current campaign financing system is outlined in Lessig's MayDay campaign video: Over 90 percent of the people in the country agree that the our government is broken and campaign finance has allowed Congress to answer not to the people but to the elite few that finance them.

It is also quite clear that our current system vests far too much power in the government, power which has been continually used to ignore the people's wishes on issues like the EU, immigration and has allowed the unimpinged growth and expansion of government.

Commenting on the launch of a consultation by the Secretary of State for Education on professional development for teachers and calling for expressions of interest in a College of Teaching, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «This Government can establish whatever framework it likes for professional development but unless teachers are given a contractual entitlement to access such development, the current system of inequality and ad hoc arrangements will continue, with access being on the basis of grace and favour and the whims and preferences of individual employers.

«What is abundantly clear, however, is the catalogue of failures by the Coalition Government to put in place effective checks, balances and controls in the current system to ensure that the public interest was safeguarded.»

This system has been recently confirmed, as there was recently a vote where 76.3 % of voters wanted to keep the current system, and did not want to elect the government themselves.

The main argument in favour of the current system is that it prevents both political extremists and rich rockstars to getting access to the government.

Mr Cable argued the Lib Dem's commitment to a federal system of government with fully devolved governments was the only solution to the current tension.

The State Department has agreed to a conservative legal group's request to question several current and former government officials — including top Clinton aide Huma Abedin — about the creation of the former secretary of state's private email system.

The decisions the current Government takes on transport to tackle the dual challenges of climate change and rising oil prices could have significant repercussions for many years to come... Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to: «Change direction on transport policy - and aim to rapidly move towards a low - carbon transport system... Vehicle Excise Duty must be changed to make road tax on gas - guzzlers more expensive - and cheaper for greener cars...»

A report released Monday by the good - government group Citizens Union argued the current system for redistricting, dominated by the Democratic majority in the Assembly and Republicans who control the Senate, has led to less - competitive elections, reduced voter turnout and, over the past four election cycles, a 96 percent re-election rate for incumbents — who are returned to office by an average margin of victory of 61 percentage points.

Speaking during prime minister's questions, Mr Blair maintained that the government can not afford to commit to standing behind the collapse of every pension scheme, while claiming that the current system of compensation is working.

«Even if government policy included an acceptance of private schooling for those with special needs, the fact that the complainant did not feel that the current state system could meet her child's requirements raised questions about the nature of publicly - funded schooling and its ability to cater for children with special needs (including those whose families would not be able to pay for private schooling).»

And he accused Mr Brown of trying to «fix» the electoral system in his party's favour by scrapping the current first - past - the - post system, which allowed voters to get rid of «weak, divided and incompetent governments and that is what we should be doing now».

The case for the current system generally coalesces around the idea that, whatever its faults, it is a trusted old friend of stable government.

The Second Republic senator also called for the adoption of parliamentary system of government, saying the current presidential system was too expensive.

Leaving aside the palpable nonsense of this description of our current system, what Cameron meant in this extract from his article is that FPTP produces single party government.

The governor announced that he would seek an array of good government reforms from the State Legislature, a number of them familiar: preventing donors from circumventing contribution caps through the creation of shell limited liability corporations; enhancing personal financial disclosures; creating a public financing system; and instating constitutional amendments to establish term limits for Albany lawmakers (though not Cuomo and the current class of legislators), extend the legislative session from six months to year - round and ban outside income.

But today's publication of government department business plans revealed that the Home Office is not expecting any reform of the current system until March 2011 at the earliest.

In making the Justice Department announcement, Rosenstein also said the department would reinstitute next month the Council of Federal Forensic Laboratory Directors, a group of the heads of the government's leading forensic laboratories and digital analysis centers; put in place a system for monitoring examiner's courtroom testimony and regularly review the new standards «to confirm that they reflect current scientific knowledge and best practices.»

After a massive flood displaced hundreds of thousands of people in 1927, the U.S. government built the current system of spillways and levees.

But he feels that correcting the problem may require a more fundamental overhaul of the current system, in which the government agrees to finance campus research in exchange for having universities train the nation's future scientists and engineers.

From, 2010 to 2020 roughly, the federal government would have to supply about 420 billion dollars in subsidies to get these massive scale [s] of production for, you know, all the mix of photovoltaic systems, solar power systems, the compressed air systems, the direct current system.

«These results are more applicable for states similar to Massachusetts in terms of the current healthcare system and government policy,» Hanchate said.