Sentences with phrase «general call for reform»

The response to the allegations reflects how quickly the scandal is expanding into a general call for reform.

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For our efforts to go beyond such survival - mode, and to actually do what conservative pundits are calling for, depend a great upon a broader reform movement to restore genuine liberal education to the general curriculum and to give its champions real powFor our efforts to go beyond such survival - mode, and to actually do what conservative pundits are calling for, depend a great upon a broader reform movement to restore genuine liberal education to the general curriculum and to give its champions real powfor, depend a great upon a broader reform movement to restore genuine liberal education to the general curriculum and to give its champions real power.

He plans to call for reform on the use of mitres during a debate on vestments at a General Synod meeting in York on Monday.

Attorney General Schneiderman praised Governor Andrew M. Cuomo for pushing ethics reform as part of the State budget process, but called for more dramatic changes, even if doing so delayed enactment of the budget.

A group of Labour candidates has written a letter to Gordon Brown calling for a referendum on electoral reform to be held on the day of the general election.

The presidents of several Latin American countries are now openly calling for a more liberal policy, while senior diplomats, including former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, are pushing for reform.

Coming as the Vickers report into banking reform is published, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber called for union members to take on the main thrust of the government argument by insisting on the need for growth to cut the deficit.

State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott has blamed a «systemic breakdown of security,» and her forthcoming report is expected to offer a damning assessment of what made the escape possible and call for systemwide reforms.

Following eight months of calls for ethics reform from Blakeman and King Sweeney, the board also passed 6 - 1 legislation concerning an inspector general / compliance officer, who would monitor possible waste and corruption within town government.

These reforms stop short of changes called for this week by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, with whom the governor has a strained relationship.

The proposal addresses campaign finance reform, calls for additional resources to oversight agencies like the Attorney General's office, and calls to explore mandatory minimum sentencing for corruption convictions, in addition to pension forfeiture.

State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott has blamed a «systemic breakdown of security» for last year's Clinton Correctional Facility breakout, and her forthcoming report is expected to offer a damning assessment of what made the escape possible and call for systemwide reforms.

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.

The attorney general called for voter reform after 1,500 people complained about the April election.

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

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose office had a hand in the investigation that led to the conviction yesterday of now former Sen. Tim Libous, called the Binghamton Republican's political demise «sad,» and said it should reignite calls for additional ethics reform in Albany.

Good government groups like Citizens Union and NYPIRG, as well as reform - minded legislators and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, have been calling for sweeping reforms aimed at truly cleaning up Albany's corruption problem.

While the state attorney general's investigation found no criminal charges are warranted in the February death of Wardel «Meech» Davis, the report does call for «systemic» reforms of the Buffalo Police Department and the Erie County Medical Examiner's office.

In other reforms he called for serious considerations for fixed term parliaments and an end to the right of Downing Street - and Prime Ministers - to announce general election timings.

Today the Guardian launches online A New Politics, a call for a radical shakeup of our constitution, arguing for reform of everything from party funding to the role of the attorney general.

Saying incremental attempts at reform had not been enough to stave off corruption in Albany, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman today called for the end of all outside income and per diem payments for members of the State Legislature.

A press conference will be held to call for reforms to the state's Martin Act to allow the Attorney General to sue on behalf of public pension funds for pension losses due to securities fraud.

ALBANY — Staking out a broad vision of ethics reform amid a swirl of other proposals in the capital, New York's attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, called for an elimination of all outside jobs for state legislators and the end of a widely criticized system of per diem payments.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been calling for a move away from incremental reform and laid out a legislative package to move the needle and prevent conflicts of interest and corruption.

Dr Margaret Chan (Director - General of the World Health Organization) and Dr. Zhu Chen (Deputy Chair of National People's Congress) attended the conference and made inspiring speeches, calling for strengthening of primary health care in health reforms.

«Our findings may tempt some to call for a rollback of Massachusetts or even national health reform,» said Nancy Kressin, PhD, head of the Health / care Disparities Research Program in the Department of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, member of the section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center, and senior author of the study.

With $ 30,000 in «Dark Money» from a New York - based entity called Real Reform Now Network and thousands more from Connecticut's deep - pocketed charter school players, a political action committee in Connecticut is funneling tens of thousands of dollars into its effort to promote the election of a handful of candidates running for the Connecticut General Assembly.

The venerable civil rights organization, sometimes an ally in education reform during the No Child Left Behind era, called for a general moratorium on privately managed charter schools — in effect, all of them.

In response to a scathing report by the USDA Inspector General (IG), critical of the government's handling of puppy mill investigations, Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D - IL) and Senator David Vitter (R - LA) today called for immediate changes at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's (APHIS) and promised to work with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on administrative and legislative reforms.

In Party General Secretary and President Xi Jinping's 19th Party Congress speech, he called for the continuation of judicial reform:

In addition, I responded to the Attorney - General's calls to provide additional concrete recommendations for reform of the native title system, and outlined in my submissions a number of other matters that require consideration in future reforms.

A major new report from the Australian Law Reform Commission, responding to a February 2017 brief by former Attorney General George Brandis, calls for national criminal justice targets and for governments to support justice reinvestment trials.