Sentences with phrase «on failed reforms»

America has been spending and is continuing to spend billions of dollars on failed reforms.

Not exact matches

Either Belaruskali is flexing its muscles and showing off its independence from Uralkali, which means negotiations on reforming the cartel are likely to be protracted and could fail, or Belaruskali is joining Uralkali in the new potash world, abandoning market discipline to compete for market share based on price.

Their efforts ultimately fails, but helps put labor reform on the political map.

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.

Markets were on alert after euro zone finance ministers failed to agree a reform - for - aid deal with cash - strapped Greece last Thursday.

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.

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.

To the extent that the president fails to deliver on corporate tax reform, reduced regulations, and increased economic growth through fiscal stimulus measures, equities could prove vulnerable.

Lew said that while the Obama administration has failed in its efforts to get tax reform through Congress, he believes the unhappiness expressed by both Democrats and Republicans following Europe's announcement on Tuesday could push Congress to act.

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.

But they failed to capture an edge on U.S. large caps until August, when prospects for tax reform regained momentum.

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.

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.

Too many Catholics, mostly liberals but also some conservatives, have failed to grasp this evangelical core, Weigel argues, and so have remained fixated on internal church reform.

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

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.

A hundred reform programmes had been set on foot in the previous hundred years, and 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.

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.

Q) You say early in the book that reform efforts based on content have failed to affect achievement gaps, and, that an emphasis on character in some way seems like a better alternative.

Balfour resigned as premier after failing to reach an agreement on tariff law reform, leaving Liberal leader Henry Campbell - Bannerman to form a government.

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.

«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.

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.

Take the most significant new authority the Fed was given under the Dodd — Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: the power to take actions to stop runs on systemically important, so - called «too big to fail» financial institutions that threaten the entire economy.

There will also be reforms aimed at allowing shareholders to have a veto on remuneration deals handed out to executives who leave jobs in which they have failed.

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.

Finally, the Working group failed to suggest term limits for leadership, which is an essential reform to turn the page on the bad old days of Shelly's 20 - year iron - fisted rule.

Cuomo has failed to deliver on women's equality and campaign - finance reform, often blaming the inaction on a state Senate controlled by breakaway Democrats and Republicans — an arrangement Cuomo has until now done nothing to challenge.

The state Reform Party executive committee last week failed to reach consensus on who the party should back for governor this year.

So much of what is being said on their side of the blogosphere, and Twitter, the howls of righteous indignation from people whose party took us to two bloody wars and failed to reform the system after 13 years in power, amounts to: «how dare you even speak to the Tories, they are evil, you are evil, Labour will crush you LOLZ».

After the panel Feldman adjourned the meeting without giving updates on the state of the proposed reforms, failing to bring transparency to the antiquated Brooklyn Democratic Party yet again.

Gove responded by saying it was actually the previous government who had failed, and that «it's a pity that a party that used to reform education is now clambering on any bandwagon.»

On 2 March, Katie Ghose, chief executive of the Electoral Reform Society wrote a letter arguing for exactly the kind of big - bang approach that has failed in the past.

It's time for someone else to have a chance at leading us — my personal choice would be the Liberal Democrats, but — oddly — Labour completely FAILED at constitutional reform, meaning the Lib Dems will be on the sidelines for another generation.

Recent reforms have failed on all counts.

A majority of Americans are ready to move on from health - care reform at this point after the U.S. Senate's effort to dismantle Obamacare failed last week, according to an exclusive Reuters / Ipsos opinion poll.

A reform group is taking a new approach to trying to close a loophole in the state's campaign finance laws, as years long attempts to crack down on what's known as «dark money» donations have failed.

She then briefed on Cuomo - related issues, including him failing to close campaign finance loopholes, failing to veto any incumbent protection gerrymandering, not doing enough for election reform, for looting public schools to give tax cuts to banks and not taking a stance against fracking.

The highly sensitive nature of Tory - Lib Dem relations were highlighted on Friday when Richard Reeves, Clegg's outgoing strategy director, warned that the Lib Dems were prepared to block Tory plans to reduce the number of MPs if Cameron fails to persuade his party to support the reforms.

The legislature failed in 2013 to act on any of the governor's reform proposals, despite several arrests, indictments and imprisonment of lawmakers.

While it may later revive electoral reform should it fail to win a majority in 2020, Labour may decide not to adopt pre-emptive commitments on this issue before first testing the water to see if it can form a single - party government.

The Senate and Assembly each passed their own one - house ethics reform bills earlier this year, but their leaders have failed to reach a deal on the issue.

Coalition policy was to seek a consensus on House of Lords reform and I think it's pretty clear to anyone watching this debate that they failed to achieve a consensus.»

In the last year, Uruguay became the first national jurisdiction in the world to legalise cannabis; the world's first legal, recreational cannabis market opened in Colorado; Colombia and Guatemala took a daring stand at the UN general assembly, telling assembled delegates that the war on drugs had failed; and the Organisation of American States became the first multinational body to raise the prospect of drug treaty reform.

«Once again, the flyers and robo calls will point out the issues the Senators have failed to deliver on, including increasing the state's unemployment benefit, failing to stand up to the Governor when he shut down hundreds of construction jobs, and a failure to reform our broken economic development system,» the group said in a press release out this morning.