Sentences with phrase «package of reforms»

All of which makes perfect sense, and indeed very sensible people have been suggesting more or less this same package of reforms for several years now.

When we see the whole package of reforms they may be hard to attack.

But I am warning that we will only be able to win that argument if we have a credible package of reforms on immigration.

LITRG's Chairman, Anthony Thomas, said: «This is a useful package of reforms designed by the Office of Tax Simplification to make life easier for employers.

The IDC backs public financing of political campaigns, but has released its own package of reform measures separate from the Fair Elections push.

If those additional safeguards turn into a comprehensive package of reforms, perhaps voters will see Cuomo as an anti-corruption crusader.

Malick told the audience she has pledged to support the full package of reforms championed by Demand Democracy, which includes publicly funded elections, enhanced protection of voting rights, and ethics reform in Albany.

As evidenced by our own package of reforms introduced last year, Senate Democratic Conference members have been staunch advocates for many of these recommendations.

It is part of a wider package of reform for the SRA's regulatory framework for legal education and training.

The four - member Independent Democratic Conference backs a broad package of reform measures that includes the public financing of political campaigns.

Despite the prime minister's confidence in the Tripartite system, Mr Darling confirmed a new package of reforms will be unveiled next year to help banks that get into difficulty.

The Adoption Support Fund is part of a wider package of reforms introduced by the government through the Children and Families Act, including a faster approval process so the majority of people are approved within six months and new rules so prospective adopters and children are placed on the adoption register within three months.

CIVIC CENTER — A group of city council members seeking to shift the balance of power away from the speakers and towards individual members took a step closer to their goal Wednesday, releasing a five point package of reforms they want to see put into effect.

The first reform implemented in 1999/2000 was part of a large package of reforms.

The May package of reforms provides a simpler measure of the allowable surcharge, which is already in force for large merchants and will take effect for other merchants from September next year.

In order to end the «rinse - and - repeat» cycle of scandal followed by public outrage, Attorney General Schneiderman proposed a sweeping package of reforms that would bring a meaningful transformation of the culture of Albany.

Such a system is a real possibility — Governor Cuomo has included a holistic package of reforms recommended by the commission in his budget proposal.

The LibDems have a revenue neutral package of reforms.

The proposals are largely based on the recommendations of Lord Turner's three - year inquiry into pensions, and were described by work and pensions secretary John Hutton as a «comprehensive, integrated package of reform».

After repeatedly and roundly criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio for not visiting Albany until this week to lobby for changes to real estate and rent laws, Mr. Cuomo indicated that Mr. Schneiderman is similarly late with the ambitious package of reforms he debuted on Wednesday.

Budget stories are proving a welcome distraction for the coalition for what just might be their least popular package of reforms.

Ministers have defended the move, arguing people are still better off overall because of Labour's package of reforms since 1997.

At the same time, Cuomo and legislative leaders have been in talks about a legislative package of reforms that could obviate the commission's work.

The measure is part of a wide - ranging package of reforms put forth late last month by the Governor.

Welcoming the review as «a balanced package of reform», David Cooper, council member of the Association of Costs Lawyers (ACL), said: «It has long seemed inevitable that the fast - track would be covered by a comprehensive fixed recoverable costs regime, but Sir Rupert is right to recommend that any extension beyond that be done is careful and measured way.»

I look forward to working with my colleagues in the Assembly to swiftly pass a comprehensive package of reforms.

He is the only one who will raise taxes on the wealthy to fund universal pre-k and after - school programs that keep our kids safe; the only one who supports the full package of reforms to end a stop - and - frisk era defined by racial profiling; and he has the boldest plan to build or preserve nearly 200,000 units of affordable housing.

That's why Justine Greening and I have set out a new package of reforms, building on Michael Gove's success, to increase the number of good school places across the country...

The five - point package of reforms, spearheaded by Brooklyn Councilmen Brad Lander, Jumaane Williams and David Greenfield, and Bronx Councilman Fernando Cabrera, has already gotten the support of 30 standing city councilmen and women as well as candidates.

Democrats in the State Assembly have passed their own package of reforms, including expanding background checks from three to 10 days and a «red flag» provision that would allow judges to block certain individuals deemed at risk of harming themselves or others from obtaining a weapon.

The plans are part of a wider package of reforms that would tear up the Mental Health Act and replace it with new legislation aimed largely at reducing the number of vulnerable people detained in prison cells.

However, Cameron's fellow European leaders gave little of substance away in a package of reforms agreed ahead of the vote.

On Tuesday, the Obama administration unveiled a package of reforms designed to rein in this abuse of the patent system.

It said the tactic was meant to confuse shareholders into voting for a package of reforms, even if it included the stock change that was not in their interests.

And yet by conflating all sizes and types of pig and poultry farms into one category, the package of reforms released by the NSW Government presents a major risk to the future of small - scale free - range pig and poultry farming.

It is not clear what impact this will have in isolation - the current law still requires collusion before contravention occurs - but the proposed new price signalling powers would be just one part of a package of reforms.

Mr Pickles called the package of reforms «a ground - breaking shift in power to councils and communities overturning decades of central government control and starting a new era of people power.

Republicans on Tuesday in Albany continued to protest the release of convicted cop killer Herman Bell, backing a package of reform measures for the state Parole Board.

The NY Post says an «excellent place» for the commission to start would be the package of reforms contained in the Public Officers Accountability Act — proposed by the Assembly GOP.

An excellent start would be the package of reforms contained in the Public Officers Accountability Act.

Last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the real estate industry pushed for a package of reforms to the credit that would broaden and deepen its application, while tailoring it to encourage more below - market construction and to exclude condominiums.

The state's top judge on Tuesday called for a package of reforms to the legal system's grand jury process, including transparency in cases involving deaths of civilians caused by police officers.

«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 2011, he won a package of reforms that included greater disclosure requirements for legislators as well as a new ethics board, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Most leadership contenders have agreed with a suggestion mooted by David Miliband that the currently appointed position should be elected by party members as part of a package of reforms to make the party more sensitive to its activists.

The fiscal year 2011 — 2012 saw the redesign team develop a package of reform proposals that achieved the Governor's Medicaid budget target.

The governor has also proposed a package of reforms to help county boards of elections better protect against cyberattacks, and to more closely regulate political ads on social media, in the wake of reports of Russian infiltration of Facebook and Twitter during the 2016 elections.