Sentences with phrase «face against reform»
Are we Conservatives right to set our face against reform of the First Past the Post (FPP) voting system?
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The chancellor is facing a power cut in his Northern Powerhouse as MPs and councillors set themselves against his reforms.
The proposed reforms address many of the problems CPS workers face in doing their jobs and stiffen penalties for those who abuse children or abuse the CPS reporting system by filing false claims against individuals.
He says: «What is striking is despite all the blather from Cameron over the past few weeks, he has made up his mind strategically to set his face against any profound reform of the political system.
He held a press conference savaging the mayor and his correction commissioner on the steps of City Hall after a correction officer was badly slashed in the face, and has pushed back hard against many of de Blasio's efforts to bring reforms to Rikers Island to overcome what Bharara deemed, in a separate investigation, a culture of violence by guards against inmates.
De Blasio faced off against four long - shot challengers at the forum: businessman Michael Tolkin, police reform advocate Robert Gangi, former City Councilman Sal Albanese and Kevin Coenen, a retired FDNY firefighter.
Ball is now facing off against Democrat Justin Wagner, an attorney and political newcomer who has been embraced by Sen. Liz Krueger and her «No Bad Apples» PAC, which supports reform - minded candidates.
«Coming as it does, against the background of the widely acclaimed electoral reforms undertaken by the Jonathan Administration, the claim by Prof. Achebe clearly flies in the face of the reality of Nigeria's current political situation.
Now she finds herself facing the powerful forces that have been arrayed against the kind of reform that she is proposing.
A more accurate model is: politics is a system that 1) selects against skills needed for rigorous thinking and for qualities such as groupthink and confirmation bias, 2) incentivises a badly selected set of people to consider their career not the public interest, 3) drops them into dysfunctional institutions with no relevant training and poor tools, 4) centralises vast amounts of power in the hands of these people and institutions in ways we know are bound to cause huge errors, and 5) provides very weak (and often damaging) feedback so facing reality is rare, learning is practically impossible, and system reform is seen as a hostile act by political parties and civil services worldwide.