Sentences with phrase «of failed reforms»

Her next book, The Troubled Crusade: American Education 1945 - 80, trained a withering eye on what she saw as a history of failed reforms ranging from Lyndon Johnson - era anti-poverty programs to utopian promises of computer - assisted learning.

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«The collapse of the Senate's healthcare strategy is a near - term negative for the GOP's broader legislative agenda, but we contend that failing to pass health care legislation dramatically increases the sense of urgency surrounding the tax reform conversation,» Boltansky wrote.

But the lawsuit «utterly failed» to reform the culture inside the company, Lockette alleges, where a «campaign of harassment» against minorities persisted, Bloomberg reports.

Tax reform is one of the core pillars of the Trump administration's attempt to stimulate economic growth in the U.S., and market watchers expect corporate tax reform to drive the market rally further — with some expecting a «tantrum» if tax reforms fail to be passed.

American officials have been raising their concerns about China's IP practices since Bill Clinton was president, and Beijing has repeatedly failed to deliver on promises to reform, said the official, adding the administration is still open to discussing the issue with the government of President Xi Jinping.

Republicans, you see, have been attacking the Democratic leadership for failing to reform the gluttonous practice of so - called Congressionally directed spending.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, one of the architects of the tax reform bill, warned in October that stock markets may see a significant reversal should the tax bill fail to pass.

The President - elect bashed Big Pharma, and failed to provide clarity on the details or timing of policies like infrastructure spending, tax reform and other measures dear to traders» hearts.

The White House has failed to find traction on a middle ground that would allow meaningful reform to thrive while protecting the constitutional right to bear arms — a compromise that would enjoy broad public support and still represent a practical way of regulating the firearms industry.

It's also worth recalling that, even though he failed to reform health care during his eight years in office, President Bill Clinton still managed to tackle tax reform with the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.

While these may at first seem unrelated, in fact financial market disruptions are tightly tied into the self - reinforcing processes of rising debt, capital flight and slowing growth that recent reforms were supposed to untangle and address — and for which they have clearly failed.

Now, my understanding of your position is that you made that original prediction based on the belief that the PRC would be instituting reforms to deleverage aggressively and transfer wealth to the consumer (such that the incorrect prediction was more that you were overly optimistic about the PRC's willingness to head off these systematic risks) and that your current prognosis of ~ 3 % GDP growth has an entirely separate causative element; that is to say, your previous prediction was based on the idea the PRC would be enacting reforms to ward off systematic risks, whereas your current estimation of GDP growth is instead based on the drag produced by these very systematic risks the PRC has failed to deal with.

However, Varufakis» strategy already failed in previous negotiations with the Eurogroup, as the agreements signed with Eurozone countries stipulate that Greece will not be granted any further payments before the end of April, and they would be conditioned by a successful evaluation of the implementations of reforms announced by the Tsiprasled Greek government.

Tax reform has become a «pass / fail» exercise under which any legislation would signal a win for the Trump administration, but a bill will come by the end of the year, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

Companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft spend many millions of dollars lobbying government each year, but their cries for immigration reform long have failed to penetrate the partisan divide on Capitol Hill.

It's a near certainty with the island likely to record its first default on August 1st (the commonwealth failed to make the necessary deposit to cover debt of its Public Finance Corporation due August 1st), and with the governor's Economic Recovery Working Group expected to make reform recommendations by August 30th.

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).

With the advent of Fed tapering and a reversal in global capital flows to the emerging nations, the countries that failed to reform are now paying the price, as are investors in these countries.

I could say I have failed, am in need of repair, reform and change.

A failed attempt to reform that religion — the account of which was transformed into the strange foundational myth of a variant of that religion.

Advocates of a mass amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens, under the banner of «comprehensive immigration reform,» seldom fail to mention «church leaders» and «faith groups» as part of their «coalition.»

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.

While he maintains hope for its future as a reform movement within the church, he fails to observe that evangelicalism has taken on a life of its own outside the church.

The Wahhabi movement in Arabia was a reaction against the worship of saints, but it made use of force rather than arguments, and failed to establish a general reform.

Sharp says reforming drug laws and ending the failed policies of the War on Drugs should be a Christian imperative.

When psychological approaches and cosmetic reforms fail to pacify people and guarantee the privileges of the empire, then the appropriate measure of violence is applied through bombings or repression.

Apparently the vigorous reform of Zoroaster himself had failed to sustain itself after his death, and the whole pantheon crowded back into the picture.

Then, when the later bill failed in the House of Representatives and the conservative backlash became too severe, Rubio said he would have voted against the reform bill if he had to do it over again.

Drawing on the large numbers of studies undertaken by people in the aid world and by independent researchers (few of these studies are cited in Lancaster's volume), he points out that the structural reforms have largely failed and the situation continues to deteriorate.

Dreihaus, part of a group of Democrats that supported a ban on taxpayer funding of abortion yet — when this provision failed to pass — still voted in favor of the final health care reform bill, argued that, given his pro-life beliefs, the ad amounted to defamation.

Commentators, including cardinals, who have called for reform have, as far as I have seen, offered not one example where the Church's machinery of government while carrying out the directions of the Holy Father has failed.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Bettina, to me this is the heart of it: «But when it comes to school food reform, it often feels that J.O. isn't playing fair with the viewer — and that failing was never more apparent than in this latest episode of Food Revolution.»

But when it comes to school food reform, it often feels that J.O. isn't playing fair with the viewer — and that failing was never more apparent than in this latest episode of Food Revolution.

Poppendieck (whom I often refer to on this site as my «school lunch guru») was responding to my post «Lessons from a Bowl of Oatmeal» in which I posit that changing lunch menus is only half the battle — if we don't also educate students about new foods and encourage them to taste new items on their lunch tray, all of our best efforts at reform are doomed to fail.

Labour's attempts to reform libel failed to reach the statute book at the end of the last parliament after they became victims of the wash - up period.

Therefore, it is absolutely clear that any reform of Islam started by secular French state would inevitably fail.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) believe that many thousands of people who claim working tax credits are losing out on money they are legally entitled to because HMRC is excluding them from its automatic backdating regime and failing to inform them they have a right to claim backdated tax credits.

The state Supreme Court and Appellate Division Court had previously rejected the challenge brought by the Reform Party on the grounds the suit «had failed to name a necessary party» — in this case the executive board of the Working Families Party.

Cuomo is backing an effort in his education reform push that would put a monitor in charge of a school deemed to be failing.

«This is perhaps one of the greatest indicators of a state's health, but Governor Cuomo — whose administration is embroiled in scandal — has been consumed with generating good headlines with grand political statements, while failing to deliver on any meaningful reforms.

Senate Democrats unveiled a package of measures designed to reform campaign finance laws and how lobbying is done — measures that have failed to gain much traction in their chamber.

After failing in their effort two weeks ago to force the Senate Republicans to hold a public hearing on a package of ethics reform bills, the Senate Democrats are taking matters into their own hands.

My old friend Kenneth O. Morgan, Labour peer as well as distinguished historian, thought we needed «action as well as conversation», and chided me for failing to put forward a shopping list of concrete proposals akin to the shopping list of global reforms proposed by Thomas Piketty in his Capital in the Twenty - first Century.

«The vulnerabilities in Nassau County government exposed by our review remain substantially unaddressed, the Board of Ethics is conflicted and lacks a quorum, and the taxpayers are ill - served every day that our elected leaders fail to enact the reforms to prevent the corruption that continues to compromise public confidence in our government.»

Tunisia, reeling from internal strife, fails to stand - up as the local model of democratic reform that it briefly embodied in 2011.

started his push for reform of finance with a telling question: «Why does the Fed deserve more authority when institutionally it seems to have failed to prevent the current crisis?»

That will take a generation and will require a large - scale and sustainable reform of the failing Spanish educational system, a marked reduction in business regulations and a long - term commitment to innovation.

Despite post-independence reform that attempted to roll back such impositions on Islamic jurisprudence, successive attempts at constitutional overhaul in 1979, 1989, 1995, and 1999 all failed to resolve the conflict over the nature and scope of Islamic law.