Sentences with phrase «need for a reform which»

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Prior to the elections, business leaders thought immigration reform would only happen in a piecemeal fashion, so they limited their efforts to their own needs, which is for highly skilled workers.

We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks, and it underscores the need for urgent reform.»

When growth is most needed, when a country is suffering from excessively high levels of debt, it is hard to find many cases in which the aggressive implementation of reforms led to growth rates fast enough for the debtor to grow its way out of debt.

I will argue that most economists have an incoherent understanding of China's rebalancing needs, and for this reason many if not most of the reform proposals of the past few years, about which economists widely agree and even celebrate, are in many if not most cases largely irrelevant.

The three main areas where my direct advice went unheeded were the following: (1) the need for large - scale financial assistance [29] for Russia, which I deemed (and still deem) to have been essential to molding a political consensus around reforms, and to bolstering the financial situation enough to achieve a modicum of success in the fight against hyperinflation; (2) the need for strong monetary and fiscal policy to achieve a rapid end to inflation [30]; and (3) the urgency of establishing a social safety net [31], especially in health care and pensions, to ensure an adequate social and political base for societal transformation and democratization.

I don't deny the inadequacy of the particular version of Thomism - perhaps typical at the time - to which Fr Holloway may have been exposed, nor its need for reform and renewal.

Though they want to criticize government for the sake of reforming it, the editors deny any need for basic societal restructuring.27 It was this basic trust in the American system which caused Christianity Today to accept the president's word concerning Watergate - until Cox's firing and the tapes - and to back the president concerning his role in Vietnam as late as May 1972:

The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture of biblical literalism with its repudiation of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an acceptance of the contributions of science, of evolution and Freudian psychology, of a «higher criticism» of the Bible, of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and of a rearrangement of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gospel.

While Calvin seems to see more clearly than Luther the need for reforming the orders of the world guided by love and justice, both Reformers see the organization of society in terms which we know are far too simple in the light of the later history of democratic forms of political life.

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

«If we're to get a strong and balanced recovery which everyone benefits from we need Labour's plan to tackle the cost - of - living crisis and reform our economy for the long term,» he commented.

In order for Spain to achieve such objectives it will need to first of all reform its secondary and tertiary education systems, which are struggling to produce the talent needed to feed an increasingly globalised export - driven private sector.

Making the authority over the district permanent would «build predictability into the system, which is important for bringing about the deep, long - range reforms that are needed.»

We will need time, for example, to reform our excessively centralised tax system which stifles local autonomy and innovation.

As part of its charitable activities, the CIOT also sponsors the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group which works to improve and simplify the tax system so as to make it more responsive to the needs of those who can not afford to pay for tax advice.

Maintaining a balance between the need for liberal reforms and the demands of the deeply conservative and reactionary forces which exist in the country has long been the backbone of Saudi stability.

«We are currently working with people from across the field of cancer to develop a new Cancer Reform Strategy, which will set out the plans for cancer services in England over the next five to ten years, building on progress so far by spreading best practice and recommending what more needs to be done to improve clinical outcomes, drive up quality and increase value for money.»

After a year in which Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver, respective legislative leaders of both the State Senate and State Assembly, were convicted for defrauding the public for personal gain, politicians in Albany have once again refused to act on preventing corruption and enacting needed ethics reform and running a more open government.

The paper singled out Assemblyman Richard Brodsky for being a «dogged champion» of public authorities reform, but said his reputation for being overly aggressive and grating «even on his allies» doesn't suit the AG's office, which needs a diplomatic leader at its helm.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says in a legislative session in which the leaders of the state Assembly and Senate are both indicted on corruption charges, the need for ethics reform in Albany is shockingly clear.

The second came after Nick Clegg's statement about Lords reform, in which the Deputy Prime Minister confirmed — as if confirmation were needed — that the Coalition's plans for the second chamber are no more.

«Chris understands how to blend common sense — cutting spending, balancing budgets, ending wasteful earmarks — with the need for innovative reforms — such as the Flat Tax — which will bring immediate help to businesses and workers alike.»

Marking the first anniversary of the Government's moratorium from new domestic regulation for micro businesses, the FSB has published a report which argues that the Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) needs more powers to scrutinise performance, advocate regulatory reform and act as an ombudsman.

«When Sen. Velmanette Montgomery gives her life and her soul to work on a package of reforms to the juvenile justice system, which we certainly need in this state, and then Ruben Diaz Sr. decides that he's going to vote against it because he's upset the Republicans are debating it too long it's unreasonable and capricious and it's the kind of irrational behavior that we've had to endure for the past eight years,» Parker told me.

In January 2012, in a speech in Strasburg, Prime Minister David Cameron set out an agenda for reforming the ECtHR which would reduce the number of admissible cases, and thus the backlog, by ensuring that the Court did not act as a small claims court or Court of Fourth Instance and did not go over national decisions where it did not need to.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

For all these reasons I feel our constitution needs radical reform if we are to having a working constitution which upholds parliamentary sovereignty and freedom of the individual.

«Anger has been fuelled further by a perception that ordinary citizens are subject to restrictions in their own working lives which were not being applied in the same way to MPs, and by the reluctance of the House of Commons as a whole to recognise the need for reform until forced to do so.»

We need repeal of union give - aways like the Triborough Amendment which rigs union contracts and benefits, repeal of the Wicks Law which raises public construction costs, reform of binding arbitration rules affecting police and fire contracts, and movement toward defined contribution pension plans for public employees.»

The Governor's message was astutely deferential to Upstate's need for economic growth, meanwhile Cuomo also avoided triggering the tripwires of controversy on education and the environment (which provided Zephyr Teachout with opening to garner a third of the 2014 Democratic primary vote); Cuomo advanced strong measures around election law reform and on the criminal justice front vis a vis Bail reform, as well as the Dream Act and MWBE all of which registered positively with minority voters.

In order to change the culture of corruption which puts democracy up for auction, we need wholesale campaign finance reform, built around a system of small dollar matching funds, to hold elected accountable to their constituents.

And Labour has a distinctive approach to deficit reduction and fiscal responsibility in which our values and priorities shine through: — timely and targeted action to secure the jobs and growth we need to get the deficit falling — different choices within tight fiscal constraints, that put fairness and prosperity first — and reform of the British economy, with more reliable revenues and a redefined role for Government.

The goo - goos praised the GOP for keeping «most of the important advances from the last session,» which, as you'll recall, were made in the wake of the coup - inspired 31 - day stalemate, but said the changes proposed «fail to take the next crucial steps that are needed to continue reforming the Senate.»

BUt when it comes to reforming Albany, the advocates have some powerful partners, not the least of which is the New York Times, which editorialized today that «the need for reform goes far beyond the budget» and urged Cuomo to «immediately — next week — introduce an omnibus ethics reform bill.»

Governor Andrew Cuomo included $ 25 million in this year's budget for universal full - day pre-K, targeted toward high - needs students in lower wealth districts, which follows a top recommendation his education reform commission made last December.

«He exemplifies what people are feeling right now, which is anger and the need for reforming the state.

Cuomo reinforced the need for shelter reforms to reporters after a Wednesday announcement about a revitalization of Penn Station, which was held at the same time de Blasio was hosting a news conference downtown on his plan to pay 50,000 more workers in the city at least $ 15 per hour by 2018.

«Despite the concern I voiced yesterday about the speed with which the MRT voted, I believe, on the whole, that the final report contains needed reforms that will place our Medicaid system on a path to long term financial sustainability while safeguarding quality healthcare for New Yorkers in need, the elderly and the disabled.»

Buhari said his travails in courts during his failed bid for the nation's Presidency on three occasions, which took him to the Supreme Court three times, were clear indications that the judiciary needed urgent reforms.

While the entire system of grants, subsidies, tax loopholes and other incentives need to be reformed, a line item that needs to be looked into is funding for energy research, which accounts for 9 billion dollars.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

And while Thompson has called himself the best candidate to improve the city's schools, the paper criticized him for his association with the United Federation of Teachers, which it said was «not always a friend of needed reforms.»

«Once again this highlights the need for real ethics reforms, something the Senate Democrats have been calling on for years, and really shows the absurdity that there has been no talk in this budget process of cleaning up Albany and passing the strong ethics reforms,» said Mike Murphy, a spokesman for the Senate Democratic Conference, a 23 - member group which is in the minority.

Regardless of how you feel about the Tories» NHS reforms the fact that they've been in power for most of the period since 1948 without ever looking like abolishing it, and in any case are now mostly doing things that the last Labour government also did when in power, means an election pitch which relies on convincing voters that if the Tories remain in office they'll actually destroy the NHS is simply not plausible to the sort of people Labour needs to win over.

They will need, as one sympathetic Labour backbencher put it last week, «to escape the cul - de-sacs of what might be called Old New Labour thinking» if the government is to find the right public language which can build a consensus for progressive reform.

Thank you for an excellent article which clearly demonstrates not only some of the reasons labour lost so badly in 2010 & again last month, but equally shows why we urgently need reform and a change of agenda in British politics.

The reforms will also mean less cases needing to go to court, which in some cases will eliminate the need for details of victims» lives to be the subject of courtroom wrangling and in all cases will mean that compensation will be paid out more speedily.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

Greening the Recovery identifies innovation, infrastructure and information as the key areas in which policies are needed to support a green economy, in addition to arguing for environmental fiscal reform and specific policies at UK and EU level to support resource efficiency.