Sentences with phrase «need of reform far»

The fact that they aren't is yet another indication that the global financial sector is in need of reform far more drastic than has been contemplated so far * The policies «demanded» by S&P to keep the rating (drastic cuts in infrastructure spending) would have been economically disastrous

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The Panel's final, overarching recommendation was that Canada needed a «Canadian Competition Council» to continually review the state of competition in Canada and make recommendations to government for further reform.

Pensioners took to the streets of Athens earlier this year in protest, and international creditors have said the government needs to make further reforms to the pension system.

Baltimore has made incremental progress reforming its police department under its year - old consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, but is still far from where it needs to be and faces significant technological hurdles in getting there, city...

The perceived seriousness of the controversy increased when, at the end of June 2000, a group of economics professors published their own a petition, backing the students and offering further analysis and evidence of the need for reform.

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.

The Council of Constance endeavored to further the remaining needed reforms by ordering that general councils be convened at specified intervals.

One key question is how to secure popular involvement in the type of far - reaching democratic reform that is needed.

Raab argued for, in The Future of Conservatism: Values Revisited, a further round of trade union reform arguing that «Luddite union leaders» block vital reforms needed to boost UK economic competitiveness.

The Buffalo News: «It took far too long, given the undisputed, crying need, but tucked away in the New York State budget are some powerful criminal justice reforms aimed at preventing the compound tragedies of wrongful conviction.

«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.»

This year's budget kabuki theater has provided further evidence that Albany is in serious need of reform.

Despite this success, the need for further reform was highlighted just weeks later, when party boss Frank Seddio selected the candidate for an open state Senate seat in a thoroughly undemocratic process that ignored the will of voters and County Committee members.

«In that spirit, I am writing to you today to open a dialogue that I hope will help us work together to enact much - needed reforms on which the NFIB and the WFP now stand united: Enactment of a property tax and a spending cap, reducing state spending and our job - killing cost of doing business and fighting efforts to increase taxes even further in New York.»

Reform groups are giving Gov. Andrew Cuomo an A for effort on his ethics proposals, but they say some of them need to go further, and Cuomo needs to follow through and actually get the plans enacted into law.

Our report shows that while we don't need a further top - down reorganisation or a full merging of services, we do we need any incoming Government to deliver a fairer funding settlement for counties, reform the Better Care Fund, overhaul the NHS tariff system and focus on workforce integration.

«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.»

Reform groups are giving Governor Cuomo an A for effort on his ethics proposals, but they say some of them need to go further, and Cuomo needs to follow through and actually get the plans enacted into law.

They claimed it would not go far enough to establish the true extent of the need for reform.

The thinking is that passage of GENDA could give a much needed progressive win to IDC Leader Jeff Klein & Co. at a time when the breakaway Democratic conference is under intense pressure from the left for (so far) failing to force a vote on some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top agenda items, including the all - inclusive 10 - point Women's Equality Act and the campaign finance reform bill.

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.»

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, responded to the Queen's Speech: «Schools and colleges will be relieved that there are no immediate plans to introduce further reforms in a sector which has had more than its fair share of change and badly needs a breathing space.»

Washington (CNN)- One day after the Senate passed a full - spectrum immigration bill with overwhelming support, the chairman of the Republican National Committee re-emphasized the need for reform but said the final contours of the legislation are far from settled.

Perhaps further reform and regulation of these authorities is needed.

A five - point ethics reform deal contains more useful measures to combat corruption, including reducing the size of financial contributions to political candidates needed to trigger disclosure and adding further restrictions to the political action committees that flourished after the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

Nevertheless, if the Conservatives are serious about their manifesto commitment of continuing «to seek agreement on a comprehensive package of party funding reform», there is further evidence that it needs to happen sooner rather than later.

«Today's announcement is further evidence of the need for reform.

The NYT editorial board comes out against a con - con — a reversal from 1997 — citing a concern that «the likelihood of a con - con yielding the most desperately needed reforms is disappointingly low, and the possibility of its accomplishing nothing at significant cost, or, worse, setting New York back even further, is worrisomely high.»

Ill - considered reforms that fall far short of what is needed do more harm than good.

The Reform Party Constitution, as far as many are concerned, needs to be completely rewritten, but like the platform, it is necessary to have a large cross section of the nation involved.

It's been many years since I began campaigning for the House of Commons to have a say on whether we went to war or not, so I was delighted that the Cabinet Secretary in a so far unreported statement told the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee this week that he would examine the words needed to put the right of Parliament to be involved in the war - making process into the Cabinet Manual.

He vowed to «reverse a century of centralisation» adding: «We need further devolution of power within England, we need reform at Westminster, and we need to look seriously at codifying the constitution.

All this suggests that further reform may be needed if all of the aims of the Wright Committee are to be better realised.

As further evidence of his commitment, Gordon Brown was offering them electoral reform without even the need for a referendum.

«We need to take a comprehensive approach to criminal justice reform that ensures a fairer system, improves police community relations and addresses the fact that far too many of our young people — mostly low - income black and Latino males — are locked up at Rikers,» said Mark - Viverito.

As far as her campaign contributions, this is a perfect example of why we need campaign finance reform.

Although the paper's authors view China's efforts as a signal of dedication toward furthering fisheries conservation, they hope their perspective paper helps highlight the need for true institutional reform in order to see the Chinese government's goals realized.

The way forward, in addition to refocusing reform's considerable energies on improving practice, is to become far more pluralistic, both in the types of schools we support and the policies needed to grow and sustain them.

«Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both on the impact of school discipline reforms and on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective school discipline reform but that changing school culture can have «spillover» effects on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.

The last thing American education needs — and a potentially mortal wound to other reform efforts — is to further cheapen the meaning of «college - educated.»

Charter and merit - pay supporters outnumbered opponents by 2:1, but a near plurality of the public refused to take a position on either issue, revealing just how much further into the public consciousness reform ideas need to penetrate.

And, quite frankly, we wanted to write a book that provided evidence that the middle school movement has not failed, as some have charged, but that the implementation of needed reforms has not gone far enough.

Glasgow's assistant director of education Ian Robertson said that further reform would be needed, and suggested greater collaboration between schools could be essential.

Where I come out — you can read more in «The End of the Education Debate» — is that America needs not less education reform but far more fundamental and radical reform.

Public schools struggle with the buy - in problem for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that teachers and administrators have rights as public employees and need only go so far in cooperating with reform.

The dramatic reforms come as part of a government drive to improve schools», pupils» and employers» confidence in the qualifications, ensuring that young people have the knowledge and skills needed to go on to work and further study.

Whoever ends up as Secretary of State will need to reflect on the evidence for any further reform of school provision and the extent to which a market - led approach to school choice will ultimately raise standards for those in the most disadvantaged circumstances.

He said: «Schools and colleges will be relieved that there are no immediate plans to introduce further reforms in a sector which has had more than its fair share of change and badly needs a breathing space.»

n order to meet the requirements of the mandates of the Education Clause of the Colorado Constitution, education reform legislation, and the Colorado Consolidated State Plan, Colorado schools would need an infusion of funding far beyond that required by Amendment 23 to the state constitution.

Nevertheless, we need to introduce more social, economic and political variables that further illuminate more relevant quality of life impacts that school closure and other reforms can have on a community.