Sentences with phrase «doing radical reform»

«At a time when, if Bob Lighthizer had his way, he'd be doing radical reform of the W.T.O., it seems weird to poke him in the eye with a case like this,» Mr. Tucker said.

Not exact matches

The bulls argued that they were not, and that while poor investment decisions and low consumption growth could indeed exist, these could be addressed administratively within the model and did not require radical reforms that would essentially result in an abandoning of the growth model.

Often viewed as Radical Reformers, these Christians were convinced that the reforms of Luther, Zwingli and Calvin didn't go far enough in their attempts to decentralize power.

A strong case has been made by F. J. E. Woodbridge that Plato not only does not seriously regard his «perfect state» as realizable, but that he means to make us see the error of imposing perfection too rigorously on human fallibility.3 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward illustrates the utopia which becomes a persuasive call to radical social reforms.4 It also illustrates one of the functions of utopian thought as a medium of realistic criticism of the present.

The Coalition's apparent zeal for radical market reform would seem to put paid to Cameron's claim that he does not believe in «great schemes to remake the world».

Only one European socialist party really did well in the European elections — in Greece — is also the party that has been most radical in its institutional reforms.

The danger is that the public will conclude that if the first two doses of this medicine of radical reform have not worked, why do we need another dose?

He pledged that one of the most radical programmes of any government for a «long, long time» would achieve more on political reform, civil liberties and protecting pensioners than Labour did in 13 years, combined with «an impeccably Liberal approach» to the NHS, education and welfare reform.

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

If there is something wrong with the expenses system then radical reform of that system is necessary, but this has nothing to do with how we vote.

The Lib Dems want radical political reform — so do we.

I understand the desire to avoid being radical for the sake of it, but this country really does need radical tax reform, radical reform of our public services and radical reform of our relationship with the EU amongst other things.

But the additional ingredient that government will deliver and needs to do even more of is a radical programme of microeconomic reform to make our economy more competitive - including competitive tax rates, planning reform and deregulation.

If she sharpens her rhetoric, don't expect her to sound like Larry Krasner, a Philadelphia civil rights lawyer elected district attorney last year while promising radical criminal justice reforms.

I don't want to mention too many names but Karen Bradley (formerly of the Tory policy unit), Philippa Stroud (because of her lifelong commitment to social justice), Liz Truss (a radical thinker on public sector reform), Harriett Baldwin (because of her knowledge of the financial world) and Fiona Bruce (because of her legal and business background) are just five stars - in - the - waiting.

My point is that when states like Massachusetts set out to do education reform in the 1990s, we intended to achieve a radical new goal for education: educating all of our students, so that not just a few, but all were prepared to be successful in college and careers.

Reform doesn't have to be radical — but it can be inspirational.

He did a really good TED talk on how to fight religious extremism, based on his own experience as a reformed member of radical Islamist groups, himself (How radical?

Children law procedure needs radical reform; but so too do swathes of other aspects of family proceedings.

The Barreau du Québec has added its voice to a growing chorus of legal groups calling for more public funding and radical reforms to help reduce what they say are ridiculously long court delays that are hindering access to and making a public mockery of the province's court system, particularly in regards to criminal justice.

really shows, I think, how radical reforms (as have been done in Australia) and as Karen suggests, are really not preferable to incremental tweaking.