Sentences with phrase «for sweeping changes»

The recommendations call for sweeping changes to both the civil and criminal systems of justice.

Over in New England, one Republican governor is calling for sweeping changes to his state's energy industry in an effort to lower residents» electricity bill.

«Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial - military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

Well, there's a good chance you'll still feel right at home with Tekken 7, because the King of Iron Fist isn't really one for sweeping changes.

The president's budget proposal calls for sweeping changes to federal student loan programs, including the elimination of Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

But buyers beware, as the worst foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression drags down the National economy, the government is making only limited progress this year on proposals for sweeping changes in the home mortgage industry and rates.

Vardey's remarkably rich, diverse, and creatively organized anthology traces the evolution of modern spirituality over the past 50 years, a period notable for sweeping changes in even the most traditional faiths.

A controversial state law permitting parents to petition for sweeping changes in failing schools can not be used this year in Los Angeles Unified, district officials decided.

June 11, 2014 (Bridgeport, CT)-- Educators 4 Excellence, a national teacher - led organization that seeks to elevate the voices of teachers in education policy discussions, formally launched its new chapter in Connecticut Wednesday with a kick - off event in Bridgeport and a call for sweeping changes to existing professional development.

Parents signed a petition to take over the school through the state's Parent Empowerment Act, often called a «Parent Trigger,» which allows parent groups to push for sweeping changes and even create a charter school.

The Los Angeles Board of Education approved the first use of the controversial parent trigger law in the city Tuesday, clearing the way for sweeping changes at 24th Street Elementary School in the West Adams neighborhood.

The i3 grant along with Race to the Top are perhaps the two signature education programs from the Obama administration where big federal dollars have been given in exchange for promises by states and local districts for sweeping changes.

Becoming an academy allowed for sweeping changes to the pastoral system which could have been achieved if it had remained as a maintained school, but not as quickly.

But rather than asking for more money (as has been the relief typically sought), the students are asking for sweeping changes to state - mandated personnel policies, including tenure and LIFO.

Now, AAMC and three allied groups are pushing for sweeping changes to animal research rules.

The governor is using the tragedy... as a justification for sweeping changes in gun laws including regulating every single gun millions of New Yorkers now own.

The Liberal Democrat MP and former party leader, who sits on the Global Commission on Drugs Policy, called for sweeping changes that would take the control of cannabis out of the hands of criminals, and also ensure that the users of harder drugs receive health treatment rather than jail sentences.

In California, 150 women signed a letter charging widespread problems in the state Legislature and calling for sweeping changes.

With the ceiling on school and local property taxes in effect, a consortium of groups representing school districts, business and local governments today renewed calls for sweeping changes to required state spending.

Since the 60s, when women's liberation movements stood up and called for sweeping changes to access to equal pay, divorce and abortion, the passionate demonstrations, speeches and rallies have gradually gone quiet.

At the time, Cuomo was referring to his sky - high poll numbers, saying that New Yorkers» approval of him personally actually indicated their broad support for the sweeping changes he had made in Albany.

The DEC's recently released unit management plan for much of the state land around the Tri-Lakes calls for sweeping changes to some popular camping areas, and for opening new campsites to offset the closure of others.

After Barington Capital Group representing a group of shareholders released a letter to Bloomin» Brands, Inc. chairman and CEO Liz Smith on Feb. 21, calling for sweeping changes in the company's brand and leadership structure, as well as marketing and financial strategy, many were anticipating the earnings report released the following day to be poor.

After vigorous debate, participants issued statements condemning the Gulf war, passed on others to the WCC Central Committee calling for sweeping changes in South Africa, the Baltic states, and other hot spots, and embraced the WCC's own «new world order» scheme.

The bill called for sweeping changes to current tax law.

Even if Le Pen wins, she'd likely have less freedom to act than President Trump, who has signed a number of executive orders calling for sweeping changes.

Just days after President Trump signed executive orders to pave the way for sweeping changes to Obamacare, CVS Health CEO Larry Merlo talked with Fortune about the «unintended consequences» of the White House plan.

Even before this year's Oscars show, the Academy announced plans for sweeping changes to its membership structure, promising to double its number of women and diverse members by 2020.

In June 2008, an eminent group of Canadian business leaders released a blueprint for sweeping changes to Canada's suite of competition policies.

Still, Mr. Sulzberger was widely considered the front - runner by employees in the newsroom, in part because he led the team that drafted The Times's «innovation report» in 2014 which laid the groundwork for the company's digital transformation and was read in the industry as a guide for sweeping change.

It is time for a sweeping change.

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer told «Inside City Hall» host Errol Louis last night that he hopes Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo succeeds with his ambitious agenda to clean up Albany, but if he does, it will be because the Spitzer administration laid the groundwork for sweeping change.

Lazio scoffed at Cuomo's «new New York agenda,» which calls for sweeping change in Albany and fiscally conservative proposals to bring spending under control, calling it «snake oil.»

Cuomo has, at times, cast himself as a catalyst for sweeping change at the Capitol, most notably when he engineered the passage of a same - sex marriage bill that had previously failed, and for which Senate Republicans seemed to have little appetite at the time.

A constitution is not a document that is designed for incremental change; it's designed for sweeping change.

G. Reid Lyon, the director of the branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development that sponsors studies on reading, has crisscrossed the country to herald the findings of scientific research on the subject and press for sweeping change in reading instruction.

Personally, I'd like to see a U.S. city identify a couple of zip codes and implement a pilot project, involving a few animal control officers who have done some understudy work in Calgary, which afterwards will compare before - and - after stats to make the case for the sweeping change that will be needed to put a Calgary - style program into effect in a major U.S. city.

Not exact matches

One - time presidential candidate Walter Mondale warned Americans that unless things changed, there would be no future for their children other than to sweep the factory floors between Japanese - made computers.

What was once an apparently invincible business is swept under by changing times and market conditions — and the dogged determination to keep doing what's worked in the past rather than find new opportunities for a different future.

Mark Ledwidge, a senior lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, agreed that many individuals got swept up in the Obama craze and that this hope for change created «expectations around Barack Obama» that «were highly problematic.»

Walmsley has been in place for around a year, but has already replaced nearly half of GSK's top executive team and has made sweeping changes in its R&D team, while shutting down many of its clinical drug trials in an effort to narrow the company's portfolio.

President Trump continues to make sweeping changes with the swipe of his pen, signing an executive order on Monday stating that for every new federal regulation, two existing rules must be eliminated.

Neither the Trump administration nor Congress has made sweeping changes to the visa programs, but some people have been bracing for more restrictions ever since October, when Francis Cissna was named director of USCIS.

At the same time, it positions him nicely for the general election (should he get that far), half - way between Republican proposals that are unlikely to bring any change to the health care economy whatsoever, and the Democrats» sweeping ambition.

At a moment when the world's fourth - largest pharmaceutical company by sales (Pfizer) is eagerly courting the world's ninth - largest (the very same AstraZeneca from which Bristol decoupled)-- offering, in late May, a monumental dowry of around $ 120 billion — one can be forgiven for not noticing the more substantive change that's sweeping the pharmaceutical industry: Big Pharma is getting smaller.

The good news: The technological change that's sweeping through the investment - management industry is dramatically increasing competition for small - company retirement plans.

Not everyone will benefit: now that Republicans have swept the US government for the first time since 1928, it means Obamacare is over - just a matter of time - and Affordable Care Act - vulnerable stocks such as Universal Health Services, AmSurg and Mednax will likely plunge; on the other hand pure pharma stocks like MCK and ABC will benefit as rhetoric on drug pricing will diminish significantly, leading to more stable earnings if / when changes in drug pricing become more stable.

Facebook has been trying to clean up that mess with sweeping changes to its data policies, plus lots and lots of public face time for Zuckerberg.

So far, 2018 has been a roller coaster ride of industry shifts for publishers, kicked off by Facebook's sweeping algorithm change that left brands wondering about the future of traffic growth and monetization on social.

Of the 100 ideas generated and ultimately sent to senior management for review, three resulted in sweeping operational changes.