Sentences with phrase «for urgent reforms»

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called for urgent reforms in the Attorney General's Department in order to reduce...

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called for urgent reforms in the Attorney General's Department in order to reduce bureaucracy and unnecessary delays in responding to cases sent to the office for advice and onward prosecution in the courts.

We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks, and it underscores the need for urgent reform.»

But regardless who wins the election, a serious case can be made for the need for urgent reform of electoral laws.

This report, based on findings from focus groups and surveys with people working on the front line, underlines the need for urgent reform of the whole system.

«In spite of calls for urgent reform and broad recognition that the current rules penalised solar power and rewarded network gold - plating, governments have not even made glacial progress in the past five years, with the unpopular result of high electricity prices driven by the cost of network infrastructure to service people's desire for air conditioning.

A group of leading NGOs active in the Balkan region [1] are calling for urgent reform of the Energy Community Treaty, as its Ministerial Council prepares to meet in Kiev on September 23rd [2].

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Populorum Progressio, the pope notes, «repeatedly underlines the urgent need for reform, and in the face of great problems of injustice in the development of peoples, it calls for courageous action to be taken without delay.»

15:52 - The «urgent and practical need for reform» was the third reason for reform, by the way.

«The need for campaign finance reform in New York State is real and it is urgent.

Thus, it is not only economic reform that is urgent, but reforms targeting corruption and addressing the wider popular call for fairness.

As the social care system faces collapse, the key test for this white paper was to deliver an urgent timetable to reform social care funding.

The groups, also strong supporters of comprehensive campaign finance reform built around a core of public financing of elections, today focused on the urgent need for ethics reform as another essential way to address the problems created by a money culture in Albany.

The defeat appears to have focused some minds about the urgent need for reform within English football.

«Sometimes the Lord works in strange ways, but he opened our eyes to the urgent need for real reform.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo released a statement in response to the Kruger - Boyland - Lipsky et al corruption scandal, saying today's arrests «again spotlight the failings of New York State government and highlight the urgent need for the Legislature to pass comprehensive ethics reform — now.»

The urgent need for this reform was highlighted by the recent news that disgraced former Suffolk County police Chief James Burke is collecting an annual pension of $ 145,485.

Michael Gove should listen to the Chair of the Select Committee for Education and «stop taking the urgent pills» in making such reforms at such a pace without piloting new qualifications or considering what schools consider to be successful in the current 14 - 19 structure.»

Education secretary Michael Gove said that the «case for urgent and radical reform of the adoption system is clear».

When he did release a statement shortly before 5 p.m., Trump said the attack «once again highlights the urgent need for Congress to enact legislation reforms to protect the American people.»

Advocates for electoral reform say that the outcome has again exposed the limitations of the first - past - the - post system, prompting urgent calls for a change to the way Britain votes.

David Cameron raised the subject at PMQs on Wednesday when he demanded an urgent meeting of the party leaders so thrash out ideas for reform and he tries to further seize the initiative on the issue with an article in today's Mail on Sunday.

«I have spoken with the de Blasio Administration about the urgent need for reforms and called for substantive changes that include splitting the responsibilities of ACS into different agencies; implementing rigorous oversight over contract agencies; adequately training and supervising caseworkers; and providing deeper ongoing supports to children in foster care or child preventative services.»

«It will be for the party executive to decide whether it accepts the reforms proposed, but a party in such urgent need of reform blocks those changes at its peril.»

Buhari said his travails in courts during his failed bid for the nation's Presidency on three occasions, which took him to the Supreme Court three times, were clear indications that the judiciary needed urgent reforms.

Mr Cameron said he had broadened the Tories» funding base since becoming leader, but there was still an «urgent need» for wider reform in British politics.

They say with the most recent lawmaker names that have emerged in connection with a federal corruption investigation, the need for such reform is all the more urgent.

Three of the other candidates — Harlem's Dickens and Annabel Palma and Jimmy Vacca, both of the Bronx — have typically sounded less urgent calls for thoroughgoing Council reform.

The need for mechanisms that will force reform is urgent, agreed Victoria McGovern, a senior program officer at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, one of the graduate education study's sponsors.

What's more, «[a] continued loss of postdocs without an alternative source of talented research personnel» for university labs portends harm to the «quality and quantity of our biomedical research,» making the need for reform more urgent than ever.

Close to 98 % of those who answered a survey on ScienceNet.cn regarding research funding mechanism voted for «urgent need for reform,» while 2 % voted for «no need for reform.»

It is particularly urgent that urban high schools be reformed, and in 2000, the Carnegie Corporation of New York launched a national initiative, Schools for a New Society, to help urban communities redesign their high schools.

Nine major civil rights organizations today called on Congress to make reforming America's high schools and improving graduation rates for minority students the most urgent priority as it moves forward on renewing the No Child Left Behind Act.

Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed that the need for reform is urgent, and their outlines of reform have often included many of the same elements.

But the message coming from the president and Congress has been loud and clear, and the need for reform and improvement is obvious and urgent.

According to a discussion guide created to accompany 180 Days: Hartsville, «viewers will experience a year in the life of one Southern town's efforts to address the urgent demand for reform in American public schools.»

After all, this is a book written by a Pulitzer Prize — winning columnist for the world's most influential newspaper, guaranteed a wide and careful reading by millions, including the rich and powerful, and he is about to make a compelling case for urgent and radical school reform.

Four national studies of education have focused public attention on the decline in achievement in those subjects and the urgent need for major reforms.

The global education community often looks to Scandinavia for inspiration when it comes to school improvement, but a recent OECD report has called on Sweden to implement urgent national reform.

The global education community often looks to Scandinavia for inspiration on school improvement, but an OECD report has called on Sweden to implement urgent national reform.

But the legislature's Democratic majority and most of Mr. Weld's fellow Republicans contended that the need for more state aid was too urgent to be delayed until a reform bill could be passed.

Progressives get annoyed that conservatives don't understand why dramatic structural reforms are so urgent, and for not grasping that they would work if everyone would just join the team and put their shoulder to the wheel.

Secure Futures Colorado is a non-profit, bipartisan organization created to promote the urgent need for major reform of Colorado's public pension system, The Public Employees» Retirement Association (PERA).

About the coalition: A + Denver, Democrats for Education Reform Colorado, Latinos for Education Reform, Padres & Jovenes Unidos, Stand for Children Colorado and Together Colorado collaborated this past year to write the report and to start an important and urgent conversation in southwest Denver.

We agree with the president and education secretary on the urgent need for reform of our education system, and their assertions that everyone — educators, policymakers, students, parents, and community and business leaders — needs to assume greater responsibility for improved outcomes in our schools.

Many consumer attorneys have advocated for years that the U.S. student loan industry needs urgent reforms.

In light of recent events in which the demand for societal reform has become an urgent issue both abroad and at home — from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement — Ezawa's portrait of democracy could not be more timely.

In 2009, Commission on Social Action to the Union for Reform Judaism issued a resolution on the «unprecedented challenge of climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions» and need for urgent action.

But, given the host of competing problems — a deep economic recession, the urgent need for health care reform, geopolitical instabilities in the Middle East and elsewhere, soaring federal debt, and so on — selling the electorate on a set of fundamental changes in the way we consume and produce energy in the short run — and congressional appropriators on making the large investments needed to bring these changes about in the long run — will be a tough task, even for Barack Obama and his newly appointed team of highly competent advisers, and a Congress that has given every indication that it will take up and give priority to climate legislation.

«The case for reform of the country's oil sector could not be stronger or more urgent.