Sentences with phrase «furthering social reforms»
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At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.
As the reform movements sweeping through Eastern Europe are learning, denunciation of evil and corruption is a necessary first step toward social change, but constructing new institutional arrangements is by far the more arduous task.
Their support for sexual reform will tend to go no further than social tolerance and the repeal of punitive laws.
No Christian writer of the New Testament, so far as our records reveal, ever faced the responsibility of applying high moral principles to preserving the institutions of society, administering governments, handling international relationships, prosecuting social reforms, or even mitigating by public measures the inequities of an economic system.1
With regard to war, two factors prevented international conflict from being specifically dealt with in the New Testament as a pressing problem: the apocalyptic expectation of the world's immediate end, so that the gradual reform of social institutions was not in the picture, and the further fact that the first Christians had no responsibility for governmental policies or influence in determining them.
Anti-clericalism, along with demands for Church reform and renewal, further powered by general social unrest, was growing everywhere.
The primary motive of the laws is to deliver justice to those who are exploited, though they also act as a deterrent for further similar actions and thus drive social reform.
«These reforms will have far - reaching effects for future generations of learners, directly impacting on the social and economic wellbeing of the country.
Further concessions to the government's beleaguered NHS reforms seem likely after Liberal Democrat peers launched a new offensive against the health and social care bill.
It would have been far - fetched to think of the Tories as the party of social reform before Cameron, but no longer.
The Social Liberal Forum believes that recovery from this crisis will require a flexible approach to deficit reduction and far more radical reform to the financial sector than showering existing banks with extra liquidity — the LDV survey suggests that the Lib Dem membership agrees.
Organisations representing the elderly welcomed the pledges on social care featured in the Queen's speech today, but said the government should have gone further in instigating overdue reform of the widely - derided existing system.
«Whereas, the movement further resolved to be inspired and motivated by the ideals of social democracy, with great emphasis on: the triumph of social justice; the nobility of human dignity; the harmony of fairness and equality; the power of working together in solidarity; the excellence of good governance, driven by good leadership; the wisdom of reforms and transformation far beyond mere growth; the horror of poverty, demanding eradication; the dignity of prosperity; the imperative of democracy and the security of peace with justice
But by far the biggest reform introduced by Daley and Paul Vallas, chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools from 1995 to 2001, was the education equivalent of just say no: ending the practice of social promotion.
As a result, to Rothstein's mind, education reform won't be effective without far broader social reforms.
I told this story to a group of two dozen or so of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed reform efforts still focus far too little on what kids do in school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social justice issues at the heart of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.
Presidents at least as far back as Bill Clinton have made attendance a priority of their school - reform efforts, in part because of the social costs of youngsters not attending.
The Further Education and Technology Bill plays at part in the government's social reform agenda to deliver an education system that works for everyone.
Signs of such deterioration abound, as conservatives push to loosen the grip of governments and unions so as to maximize the freedom of families and schools to chart their own course, and as liberals redefine education reform into a «social justice» crusade, construe today's problems in race and gender terms, and press government to do more to advance and protect selected subgroups — a trend that's been welcomed and in fact quickened by the Obama administration's eagerness to nationalize these endeavors and institute federal regulations that further them.
Nevertheless, we need to introduce more social, economic and political variables that further illuminate more relevant quality of life impacts that school closure and other reforms can have on a community.
Envisioning artistic practice as an engine for community empowerment, Osorio's educational reForm suggests that education is not just a public issue, but a social and environmental justice that requires further reformation on its own terms.