Sentences with phrase «lack of action over»

Ministers are proposing to scrap key stage 1 SATs and replace them with a new baseline test for reception children, but union activists remain unconvinced by the proporals and a lack of action over tests for older pupils.

Union activists remain unconvinced by the proposals and believe their is a lack of action over tests for older pupils.

The report, commissioned by Home Office permanent secretary Sir David Normington, clears ministers of responsibility but found that the lack of action over such a long period was «difficult to understand and very regrettable».

In this role, Thornberry challenged the coalition government's lack of action over failing care home operator Southern Cross, calling for action and that the government put in place a plan B should the operator fail.

Not exact matches

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Worse, the lack of direction frequently led to pitched battles between Burger King's Miami head office and individual franchisees — an uncomfortable parallel with Tim Hortons» own fights with its franchisees — including a class action lawsuit brought by franchisees over a $ 1 double cheeseburger.

The ongoing debate about Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) and his actions (or lack of actions) in response to the Holocaust has gained intensity over the past few years.

The charge is and sentencing are over the top — the action itself shows a profound lack of empathy for the theology of liturgical, particularly the Eastern tradition where the assembly mystically becomes the throne room if God.

Barkley is currently ruled out of action for up to a month, with him expected to be fit to return just over a week before the transfer window slams shut on August 31, but with a lack of pre-season action he may take time to build - up match fitness.

If only we can cry over the spilled milk, I would have take Higuain from Madrid over Ozil... The season before we bought Ozil our best player was Cazorla (AMF) and we were in a desperate need for a striker (still we are) and Higuain was availabe for less than 30M... Ozil is good (more than good but not for Arsenal) but I think it was a panic buy in the last minutes to pleased the frustrated fans due to lack of actions in that window...

From «girls throwing themselves at him» to a lack of support on managing his social media and no disciplinary action from the club after the reports of his cheating were picked up by the papers, it's clear that Helena has a lot of anger towards the club over their lack of dealing of the matter.

Arsene Wenger said last week that Giroud is angry over his lack of action so far this season, but is using his time away from the starting eleven to improve his game and fight for his place at the club.

This offseason has come to be known for a total lack of action and the debates over the causes of said lack of action.

Brown is also a major target after the former England international fell out with Ferguson over his lack of first - team action.

We're joint top of the possession table with City at an average of 56 % over the season so far, but possession is meaningless if it leads to such a lack of goalmouth action.

MRSA Action UK helps to bring the human cost to the attention of government and industry over the ticking time bomb and lack of desperately needed antibiotics.

In the Senate, a string of Democrats introduced hostile amendments, trying to force a vote on issues — like gun control and early voting — that had fallen out of budget negotiations in recent days, and their remarks mixed anger over the lack of action with wisecracks about the late hour.

The critics seem to have badly misjudged this great story, they're clearly idiots or lacking passion and a sense of adventure - maybe a result of watching too many crappy Hollywood action movies or bias towards Bay who has his name «over the door» even though its run and written by others.

Despite the medium acting, the way too over the top and unrealistic action sequences, the bad CGI and the lack of great one - liners, the movie's biggest flaw is probably that it doesn't feel like a Die Hard movie.

Surrogates is a good science fiction idea that is either too shallow and underdeveloped to provide the depth necessary to make a lasting impression, or it's a case of a rich and deep story that had been stripped away of all of its high concepts due to lack of budget, studio meddling, and a director who prefers big action sequences over scenes of talking heads.

There's been some disappointment over the film's relative lack of action, as if that's a bad thing.

Brendan Fraser and John Hannah are back and Maria Bello puts on a fitful British accent to take over from Rachel Weisz but the chemistry just isn't there and director Rob Cohen lacks Sommers» sense of humor and gift for over-the-top action.

The brisk action that follows and the lack of fuss over exposition gave me some assurance that director Christine Jeffs and screenwriter John Brownlow knew what they were up to.

Delegates at the sessions voiced appreciation for the graduated response under the current system but expressed concerns over the lack of resources that are allocated for interventions at school action and school action plus level.

In a separate action on Monday, a rally organized in front of LAUSD's Beaudry Street headquarters by the East Area Progressive Democrats (EAPD) took the school board to task over the selection process and characterized Rodriguez as being emblematic of the board's lack of accountability for charter schools.

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Over the past several months, we have had in - depth discussions with the Company's former Chief Executive Officer, Harald Braun, as well as the Company's Chief Financial Officer, Tom Cronan, regarding our concerns about the deteriorating financial performance of the Company and the lack of action to adjust operating expenses in - line with the Company's current business prospects.

So they added on a bunch of capitalized interest to my loan which increased by about 1k, and my credit score was adversly affected because they reported 15 different small loans I have over the course of my bachelors as delinquent... Class action for negligence and lack of care.

It seems to me that a lack of concentration on bottom - up corporate fundamentals, and probably a lack of training in corporate finance, can lead Professor Hubbard and others like him to recommend courses of action that can be quite harmful to the country (even when the proposals might result in net benefits to the stockholders of the Third Avenue portfolio companies over the long term).

It's seems clear to me (from their lack of action) that they have taken the low road and chose profits over people.

«The gameplay is very much a return to the feeling of the original «Sands of Time «trilogy,» said Level Design Director Michael McIntyre in an interview with MTV Multiplayer, addressing concerns that the recent reboot featured too many canned animations, making players feel like they lacked direct control over the Prince's acrobatic actions.

There's good reason for the lack of any significant SoulCalibur play on the competitive scene; while the series might have provided its fair share of hugely entertaining showdowns, a few game - breaking flaws and an emphasis on style over substance has seen it left in a horrible middle ground between hardcore fighters and anything - can go, mash - friendly action gaming with a competitive twist.

Considering it was only a few days ago I was voicing concern over the lack of detail on the gameplay mechanics, this is a welcome burst of information, but it's worth pointing out that we have yet to see any of it in action and that everything you have read above is second - hand information.

Overall the game is quite short and lacks a lot of depth, with only 18 levels available it means you can complete it in around 3 hours, and with a rather lacklustre storyline, it's all about the action over content in Mr Shifty.

He was furious over the lack of action taken by the world's leaders over the terroristic onslaught of madman, Inferno.

Combat in many MMOs is often methodical and strategic over a longer span of time, lacking the genre's signature twitchy action.

You can vault over cover, resulting in slow motion in which you can continue firing at your enemies, but fans of John Woo will certainly be disappointed with the lack of a shoot dodge ability, given that the game partially takes its inspiration from Woo's own Chinese action films.

Probably a lack of awareness, the relatively low amounts of money saved by each action (electricity is cheap), and long payback periods — sure, installing insulation will save you money over the course of ten years, but what if you don't want to foot the up - front bill?

This can lead to a lack of political concern over this issue, and thus a lack of political action until the possibility of human control over the process of climate change becomes impossible.

It's important to note that there's also sometimes a kind of «false inequivalence» in the fight over climate science and policies — an implication that the lack of action on greenhouse gases is largely the result of the unfair advantage in money and influence held by industries dealing in, or dependent on, fossil fuels.

These omissions included: (a) the lack of recognition that dependence on natural gas as a bridge fuel for reducing the US carbon footprint raises several ethical questions, a matter reviewed here in detail, (b) acknowledgment of the US special responsibility for climate change for its unwillingness to take action on climate change for over 20 years since it ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Equity.

Adverts by CEI aired in the US «they call it pollution, we call it life» have greatly influenced the state of public opinion over there and added legitimacy to the Bush administrations lack of action.

The group of philanthropists who founded the ECF were deeply concerned over the lack of political action and the lack of general public awareness around the devastating future consequences implied by climate change.

I speculate that governments could be tempted to increase their powers over individuals, considering their lack of control over the result of their citizen's actions once unleashed in a decentralized web.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

Ms. Brown brought an action against Dr. Baum alleging lack of informed consent on June 4, 2012, over 3 years after the initial surgery but within 2 years of when Dr. Baum last treated her to correct the original problems.

It's easy enough to learn the location of each, but reaching blind for one over the other can be a bit of a challenge because the buttons are too squishy, lacking the preferred tactility, or click action, of an actual camera.

There are thousands of specific scenarios that would demonstrate how this plays out over time, but the main features generally include minor disagreements, lack of action, poor behavior, and eventually transforms into a significant, convoluted mess.

Election driven law and order campaigns primed to drive up incarceration, a lack of government action to implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and lack of judicial activism to implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission on non custodial sentences are some obvious and ongoing causes of over representation.

The communication and lack of action issues are most common and could be manifested in the following ways: Example # 1: You may not point out something your partner does that bothers you, but over time it continues to bother you, while your partner is oblivious.