Sentences with phrase «lack of political will on»

The action neatly encapsulated the yawning gap between the growing danger of climate change — and growing maturity of climate scientists — on the one hand, and the utter lack of political will on the other.

In addition to the obvious need for increased teacher resources and teacher support in order to implement new programs, Reimers cited three additional factors: the lack of political will on the part of national and state governments; the resulting insufficient knowledge base to support effective citizenship and human rights education; and the limited ability of international institutions to implement educational change.

But he agonises over the fact that the Geneva negotiations failed because of the lack of political will on the part of Washington and Moscow (read the election of Ronald Reagan as president).

It is not a lacking of legislation that is causing the crisis of herdsmen; it is lack of political will on the part of the institutions to enforce the laws.

The main problem is a lack of political will on the Israeli side and growing antagonism on the side of the Palestinians who experience constant injustice.

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Some of the others: lack of political will, and the system's focus on treatment, rather than prevention.

Liberating data will spur grassroots research on important social, economic, political and technical areas, currently hampered by lack of access to and high cost of civic data.

Few seem to genuinely question the fact that such a coalition was both arithmetically difficult and lacked a significant degree of political will on the part of the Labour Party; nor does anyone seem to genuinely believe that a Tory minority administration would be either more progressive or provide the country with the stability it needs at a fragile time.

Inspite of the fact that virtually every African leader on the assumption of office pledges zero tolerance for coruption, the canker still persists in almost all African countries at varying degress, Ghana being no exception, due to lack of political will - power and unbriddled greed on the part of the leaders.

«Regardless of whether or not Duffy violated state law by interviewing for a job with a private lobbying entity — he'll recuse himself from any future matters involving economic development in his home region — he has committed a mortal political sin: He created an ethics dilemma for a governor currently hammering the state Legislature over its own ethical record, including its lack of transparency on sources of outside income,» Casey Seiler writes in his column, which includes speculative odds on Duffy's successors.

On the lack of political will by major stakeholders to help tackle the problem, the lawmaker said while stakeholders» intervention was necessary, the onus lied on the Federal GovernmenOn the lack of political will by major stakeholders to help tackle the problem, the lawmaker said while stakeholders» intervention was necessary, the onus lied on the Federal Governmenon the Federal Government.

Observers have criticized successive governments of lacking the political will to pass the Bill, and these concerns were highlighted by a former Vice Chairperson on Parliament's Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, George Loh, who suggested that Mr. Mensah - Bonsu obstructed the passage of the Bill at the tail end of the Mahama administration.

With a lack of clear facts but plenty of political posturing, what tools will Brits rely on to decide whether the UK should leave the European Union?

Blaming a lack of improvement in the worst - performing areas of the country on a «lack of political will», Sir Michael will say there is «urgent need» for a London challenge - style approach by MPs, council bosses and headteachers «to raise secondary school standards in towns across the north and midlands».

«In the article, we assert that the scarcity of racially integrated schools and programs in New York City reflects a failure of public policy and political will, not a lack of demand on the part of parents.

A + Colorado is encouraged by the legislative efforts to update the accountability clock A + believes that a deeper challenge than the accountability policy structure is a lack of political will to intervene in even the most dramatic circumstances A + Colorado calls on the Colorado legislature, our Governor and the state board of education to enact...

Your primary objection for a mass eradication campaign is predicated on lack of political will among Americans.

The lack of political will for tackling core problems will, as always, put far more pressure than is deserved on relatively small, and often highly effective, programs aimed at fostering global progress.

There's no need to use alternative fuels in order to achieve efficiency gains of around 30 % on average, only the political will is lacking.

The price differential between hybrids and fossil fuel cars could be removed at a stroke if sales tax levels were set based on a car's GHG emissions per mile, and this would be likely to make a huge difference to take - up of hybrids — again, the problem is not technology, it is simply lack of political will.

Oxfam senior climate adviser Antonio Hill said a continued lack of «political will from rich country leaders» meant there was no movement on the emissions reduction targets that could help safeguard the world's poorest people.

The law societies do not give sufficient importance to the interactions among: (1) the problem and its consequences — the thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of affordable legal services provided by competent lawyers; (2) the power of the internet, the social media, and the news media together, to make those consequences into a public and political issue so quickly that there will not be time for the law societies to publish a persuasive response, and which issue will compel government intervention by way of programs on the way to socialized law; (3) the fact that self - regulation of the legal profession has been lost by the law societies in several jurisdictions of the common law world and the U.S; [7] and, (4) the fact that the consequences of the unavailability of legal services at reasonable cost will motivate the many non-lawyer legal service providers to offer legal services that should be provided by lawyers, to people desperate for a lawyer's services that they can not afford.

The issue could, of course, be entirely resolved by the introduction of divorce on demand under English law, but the current position provides something of a compromise in circumstances where the political will to overhaul divorce law is, ostensibly, entirely lacking.

These possible objections to the Bill and the apparent lack of political will to enact it — the Bill was not included in the 2007 Queen's Speech — may mean the law of forfeiture remains on the to - do list for some time yet.

In 2015, after learning of the disappearance of more and more Indigenous women and feeling a growing sense of frustration about the lack of political will to launch an inquiry into the issue, Tracie set out on a four - day 115 km run to raise awareness.

Social / political engineering achievements, or lack thereof, will not look good on Ms Aitken's resume ten years down the rocky road of prescribed hoped - for positive change for the worse, oxymoronically speaking.