Sentences with phrase «making their cases for reform»

Both the defenders and critics of medical transfer payments inevitably focus on poor, unemployed, single mothers or their children when making their cases for reform.

Justice minister Lord Faulks valiantly tried to salvage the debate for the government, telling peers the admission was «clearly regrettable», but it was difficult for him to make the case for the reforms once it became clear the Commons had voted on the basis of false information.

Luke Sibieta, senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, makes the case for reform of the system used for school funding:

But while economic efficiency and social justice arguments for wealth taxation are important, analysis of the political context in which progressive policymakers have to make the case for reform is often missing.

Making the case for reforms that are radical enough to meet the challenges facing our public services has inevitably involved criticising some of the ways our public services are currently operating.

But he added: «Where we differ is that I would rather see the UK making its case for reform from within the EU rather than with one hand on the escape hatch.

Macleod will bring forward a ten - minute rule bill in parliament this afternoon making her case for the reform.

Leader to tell Paul Kenny that union's decision to cut affiliation funding by more than # 1m has helped make case for reform

The Labour leader is prepared to tell Paul Kenny that the unilateral action by the GMB to cut its annual funding by 88 % has inadvertently made the case for reform of the historic link between the party and the unions.»

How can we continue to make the case for reform without alienating teachers, without turning them into the enemy, the problem, the object of our disdain?

Polling done by choice advocates support this basic thirst for change, and they point to that research to make the case for reform.

Last month, she was making her case for reforming and strengthening the Act to better protect Canadians» privacy in the digital age.

The JCHR ultimately concluded that the Government had not made its case for reform.

The notion that consumers want access to one - stop shopping is no glittering generality designed just to make our case for reform.

Not exact matches

Dig Deeper: The Case for Self - Insurance Health Care Reform and Small Business: If You Have 50 Employees Starting now, companies that are growing or which are already hovering around 50 employees should make sure they can document exactly how they count employees versus contract workers, temps, and full - time equivalents.

But while the European Commission says the reforms will make it easier for businesses, a conflict between the regulation and another EU directive on e-privacy could mean national telecommunications laws would override some elements of the regulation, meaning in some cases companies would still face complying with 27 different national laws.

The lecture draws on some of my work for CIGI (NAFTA, Innovation) and makes the case that NAFTA negotiations are a problematic place for digital copyright reform, noting the lack of transparency, lost flexibility, and inability to strike a critical policy balance.

But as a Republican president, perhaps the most pro-firearm chief executive in American history, Trump is, in theory, in a unique position to use his good standing with Second Amendment activists to make the case for gun reforms.

Aid advocates wrongly downplay the efficacy of reform as a way of making the case for more support.

And economic reform momentum, improving cash flows and reasonable valuations make a solid investment case for EM equities.

Speakers making the case for why it's time to listen to the experts and Canadians — and get down to business and develop a made - in - Canada proportional representation system include Hassan Yussuff, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Katelynn Northam, electoral reform campaign lead at Leadnow, Farhat Rehman of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and Annie Bérubé, director of government relations at Équiterre.

The business consultants at Booz Allen Hamilton — Joyce Doria, Horacio Rozanski and Ed Cohen — made their case for curriculum reform and suggested courses in psychology, economics and human behavior.

Trump stumps for tax reform US President Donald Trump travelled to Missouri this week to make the case for overhauling the US tax code.

[12] Whether the CHOICE Act passes or not, it is important to consider alternative monetary rules and to be prepared to make the case for rules over discretion when the opportunity for reform arises.

He also makes, at the end of his lengthy account of the papacy's failings, an appealing, if brief, case for reform within — not apart from — the church: «I prefer the company of Ignatius of Loyola to that of Luther, or Charles Borromeo to Calvin, Philip Neri to Melanchthon,» he writes.

In many cases, making work more secure for particular workers can also make it harder for employers to hire, but there is one place where conservative reform can make work more secure without making hiring more difficult.

Popularization: Once the case is made intellectually, God recruits the artists, musicians, activists and literary geniuses who make intellectual arguments compelling to popular audiences, enabling laypersons to perceive the need for reform.

The public and politic case for upfront amnesty and increased low - skill immigration (under the label «comprehensive immigration reform») was made by the Republican National Committee's «autopsy» of the 2012 election.

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

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

Surely the Lib Dems could have found someone who could make the case for real reform robustly — it is after all the key Lib Dem issue — rather than this vapid ignoramus?

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The drumbeat for public financing pounded loudly on Monday when good government groups and Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill visited the Capitol to make the case for campaign finance reform.

Corruption Trials and Two Reform Reports Make the Case for Action Now In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the -LSB-...]

And, apart from the Liberal Democrats, who has ever made the case passionately for electoral reform that could meaningfully devolve power to people beyond London?

«The lesson of Damian McBride's memoirs is that Labour is the Nasty Party Main Politics is about more than maths - Conservatives must make the moral case for welfare reform»

On the heels of deeply troubling problems at the polls during the April 19th presidential primary, roughly 200 citizen advocates will meet with lawmakers to share their personal voting experiences and make the case for fundamental reform to New York's antiquated election laws.

Never make the case for the EU and its attendant loss of national sovereignty; never go into an election talking of electoral reform; never remind voters of the environmental damage associated with their lifestyles.

BY SAM SPOKONY A coalition of City Council members and Democratic Council nominees likely to win on November 5 took to the steps of City Hall on October 30 to begin making their case for sweeping reforms to the Council's rules.

The U-turn almost certainly isn't going to happen but at least the Government is now making a much better case for its reforms.

And she says that the fact that all three parties proposed Lords reform in their manifestos makes the case for a referendum even stronger, because people did not have the chance to vote for a party opposed to it.

You can make a case for either course of action but, with his party also split on Lords reform, Ed Miliband has ducked the choice.

The candidates made their cases for their leadership prowess, and discussed extending term limits for Council members, greater transparency around lobbying, key questions about campaign finance reform in the city, and

ToryDiary: Politics is about more than maths - Conservatives must make the moral case for welfare reform

«David Cameron's negotiations are a missed opportunity to make the case for the real reforms the EU needs: democratisation, stronger workers» rights, an end to austerity and a halt to the enforced privatisation of public services.»

Other announcements expected include reform of the system for diagnosing and helping children with special educational needs to give parents more choice in how they are schooled; reforms to the family justice system to speed up care proceedings so no cases take more than six months; and promised changes to the adoption system to make sure parents and children are matched more quickly.

Philip Blond, always anxious to please 10 Downing Street, argued that a Yes vote would «stop extremists» and applied (unsuccessfully) for a grant to the Electoral Reform Society to make a full case for AV.

Governor Cuomo has repeatedly indicated that for real reform to occur in New York, he must make his case directly to the people of the state.

«Politics is about more than maths - Conservatives must make the moral case for welfare reform Main Labour has # 28 billion worth of unfunded spending commitments - Shapps»

He made a solid rhetorical case for teacher - accountability reform.