Sentences with phrase «of earlier reforms»

After Governor Alexander left office, most of the earlier reforms had been dismantled.

Education reform generally, and in California especially, seems to follow a pattern of taking one step up and two steps back, as successions in leadership and shifts in the political winds lead to the dismantling of earlier reforms and the layering on of new ones.

Not exact matches

Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the White House earlier this month, where he discussed Chinese tariffs and U.S. tax reform, according to Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council.

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.

Early in his talk, Zuckerberg alluded to his goals of promoting immigration reform.

The idea for an ACCC investigation was hatched during media reform negotiations in parliament earlier this year, which resulted in a relaxation of ownership laws to allow the country's big players to boost their market share to better compete against online disruptors.

Some of RBC's other divisions have also begun to see the early benefits of U.S. tax reform.

«While there are a number of issues that could still slow it down, or stop it altogether, we believe the odds that tax reform will be enacted by early 2018 — already our base case — have risen to 80 % (from 65 % previously).»

The legislation proposed earlier this summer - the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act - would exclude most such workers and would reduce the total number of green cards awarding permanent legal U.S. residence to just over 500,000 from more than one million today.

The SEC's review comes after the agency put together a dedicated group earlier this year to examine private equity and hedge funds that had to register with it as part of the 2010 Dodd - Frank financial reform law, Reuters first reported in April.

«Our «rational exuberance» rests on a combination of above - trend US and global economic growth, low albeit slowly rising interest rates, and profit growth aided by corporate tax reform likely to be adopted by early next year,» Kostin said in a report for clients.

«Although we expect that the Greek government will implement the required measures, the risk of early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament... Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament... Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's said.

The Senate passed the Republican tax reform bill early Saturday in a massive win for the party and President Donald Trump, who has seen many of his agenda items stall in the legislature during his first year in office.

Earlier this year, the House of Representatives took decisive action and passed bipartisan reforms to the Congressional Accountability Act (CAA), an outdated law that currently requires sexual assault survivors to endure an antiquated and often expensive dispute resolution process.

Earlier this month, Zuckerberg spoke publicly about immigration reform during a screening of Documented, a movie about undocumented immigrants.

Republican Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced reforms to the state's scandal - plagued state police earlier this month including the implementation of body cams, GPS vehicle...

Much of China's early poverty reduction came from agricultural reforms, but its incredible sustained economic growth since 1981 came principally from exports.

European stock markets surged almost 2 % while Wall Street jumped more than 1 % after a breakthrough came early on Monday when Donald Tusk, president of the European council, announced that the 19 eurozone leaders had unanimously reached agreement to keep Greece in the single currency, adding that Athens had signed up to «serious reforms».

Past achievements include building the case for deficit reduction in the 1980s and early 1990s, for consolidation of the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans in the late 1990s, a series of shadow federal budgets and fiscal accountability reports in that began in the 2000s, and work on marginal effective tax rates on personal incomes and business investment, which has laid the foundation for such key changes as sales tax reform, elimination of capital taxes, and corporate income tax rate reductions.

So, for example, I would argue that in the early stages of reform, especially in countries that have suffered many years of terrible economies and weak investment, crony capitalism can be consistent with high levels of growth because the kinds of programs that lead to growth — mostly massive investment programs in countries in which capital stock is excessively low — benefit the elites directly.

One of the biggest reforms — permitting startups and other private companies to advertise a securities offering, provided that all purchasers are accredited investors — has caused the most consternation, at least in the early implementation.

In fact, this is one resolution that many of you were able to start prior to January first when Congress passed tax reform in the waning hours of December, giving some Americans an opportunity to act early in their own best interests.

In «Comparing Nest Eggs: How CPP Reform Affects Retirement Choices,» authors Alexandre Laurin, Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle find that once the interaction of these age - based CPP adjustments with the tax system is taken into account, some lower - income Canadians will still have financial incentive to retire early, because they face penalties if they don't.

Earlier this month, a Tax Reform Toolkit post explained the basics of the new 199A 20 % deduction for pass - through income.

The two - year budget accord signed by President Trump earlier this month contains provisions from a House of Representatives disaster relief bill (H.R. 4460, the Disaster Recovery Reform Act) designed for states hit hard by hurricanes and wildfires in 2017.

Once passed, it is still early to judge what would be the chilling effect on the US of a CFIUS reform on foreign investment, one of America's strongest economic engines.

«If it's not done this year and there's no clear path that you could take to the bank of (tax reform) being done early next year, then you move on... and we'll adapt our strategy accordingly,» Read said separately in an interview with Reuters.

As an alternative, House Republicans have floated the possibility of adopting a Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget resolution early next year (since Congress failed to adopt a FY 2017 budget resolution last year) to include reconciliation instructions for repealing (and possibly replacing) much of the ACA, while adopting a FY 2018 budget resolution later next year that includes reconciliation instructions for tax reform (and possibly some mandatory spending changes, perhaps from Medicare reform, other mandatory savings assumed in the budget resolution, and / or some ACA replacement).

This is partly the result of the early stages of derivatives reform on both sides of the Atlantic.

This new round of SOE reforms is important not only because it is a cornerstone of Xi's vision for a rejuvenated China, but also because it marks a departure from the traditional reform patterns of earlier administrations.

The first two rounds of talks between the United States, Canada and Mexico — the member countries of the North American Free Trade Agreement — on reforming the agreement have so far been relatively uneventful, even if they are still at an early stage.

In a statement released earlier this week, Reform said that Orthodox Anglicans «had been in effect excluded» as a result of the changes.

I wrote earlier about my worry that two competing bills filed in Texas about the state's discriminatory futile care law — one to put on a few bows of surface reform, the other to end the right of hospitals to refuse wanted life - sustaining treatment — would end up in gridlock.

A bipartisan group of senators formally filed the immigration legislation early Wednesday calling for border security as the cornerstone of reform.

One might find at least a tiny echo of this inadequate notion of reform in his initial impulse to rebuild Christ's Church by attending to ecclesiastical masonry — an episode in the early steps of his pilgrimage toward Christ that makes me think of present - day temptations to live the New Evangelization by getting top - drawer management consultants to advise the Church on messaging.

This leads to the negation of the earlier concepts of education as laid down in the Constitution of India which put priority to «promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people» and to the development of «scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform» in every citizen.

Wesley and his early followers similarly sought to reform the Anglican Church from within through eucharistic practice, the pursuit of holiness within disciplined small groups, and ministry for and with the poor and dispossessed.

As Timothy Smith, Donald Dayton and others have pointed out, evangelical Christians phyed notable roles in early periods of social reform in America.

«The Vatican did not recognize the scope or gravity of the problem facing the Church in the United States despite many warning signs; and it rebuffed earlier attempts to reform procedures for removing predator priests.»

Nowhere was the resulting «republican religion» more apparent than in the «Yale theology» of the early nineteenth century, the goal of which was «the moral renovation of the American people through revivalism, reform societies, the religious press, and sumptuary legislation.

With classic terminology but with an emotional insistence not common in the earlier generations of New England Puritans, Cotton Mather preached that the only hope of reform from these various forms of wickedness was to be born again in Christ, to rise again, not with one's own strength but with his.8 As Mather began to despair that any general reformation of this sort would occur — it would not until Jonathan Edwards» Great Awakening of 1740, 12 years after Cotton Mather's death — he dwelt more and more on prophecies of the end of times.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Reform Jews who rejected the Zionist idea of a Jewish state declared that «America is our Zion.»

He acknowledges that this was «at a very early stage of the liturgical reform».

Nawaz, a British Muslim activist who spent his teens and early twenties professing radical Islamist ideology before reforming, intends to sue the SPLC for defamation of character.

Dumbledore trusts that Snape has repented of his former affiliation with Voldemort and reformed his ways, but an attentive reader will notice that the early evidence for that claim is later undermined.

In early July, in what was surely a striking and dramatic papal act, Pope Francis positioned one of his most important priorities as Pope — the reform of the Roman Curia — directly in the context of this unremitting combat against the Devil.

As we noted earlier, Hogg has become a vocal advocate for gun reform in the wake of the shooting.

This was a violation of something very sacred in the minds of the people; so it is little to be wondered at that soon after his own early death a reaction against the reform developed, and that finally his own name and the name of the god Aton, whose name he had incorporated in his own when he had it changed from Amen - hotep to Akhnaton, were likewise erased from public monuments.

In the earlier phases of the movement the attack was still disguised as Christian «spiritualization» or «reform»; in the later phases, with the more radical immanentization of the eschaton, it became openly anti-Christian.

As in earlier centuries, the tide of reform gave birth to new monastic movements and to the elevation of the character of some of the older orders.