Sentences with phrase «reforms on the lives of»

The impact of the reforms on the lives of sections of the peoples beyond this narrow minority, can already be seen.

Not exact matches

The battle over healthcare reform may look and sound as if it's a war on the periphery of daily life, but it is core to it.

We then use that to build out two additional scenarios: one assuming a doubling of the current minimum wage plus factoring in the cost of fire and building safety improvements based on data from the Worker Rights Consortium; and another using a «living wage» figure from the East Asia labour organization Asia Floor Wage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demands.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's hearing featured a string of critics who rebuked Bresch for raising the price of a product with life - or - death implications, especially one that needs to be replaced almost every year and in a therapeutic space where Mylan has more than 90 % market share.

WASHINGTON The White House on Tuesday urged U.S. lawmakers to move ahead with legislation to help prisoners prepare for life after release, but stopped short of calling for broader reforms such as changing mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes.

Debt - crippled Greece has been kept afloat by huge international rescue loans, granted on condition of harsh cutbacks and reforms that slashed living standards that have driven the country into political stalemate.

Absent growth, the only other option for restoring some measure of financial integrity and standard of living for its citizens is to enact fiscal and structural reforms and restructure the existing burdensome debt, with the long - term goal of putting the island on a sustainable growth trajectory.

Survivors of the school shooting in Parkland organized the March for Our Lives in DC, on March 24 with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy group.

Survivors of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy group.

Thousands of people are expected to attend the March for Our Lives protest in Washington, DC, on Saturday to advocate for gun control reform in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

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.

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 first phase of the Reformation focused on issues relating to personal salvation and the need for reform in the life of the church.

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.

In my day job as the editor of The Englewood Review of Books, I've staked my life and work on the hope that reading carefully and well will undoubtedly transform us, reforming the ways that we think, talk about and live within this wondrous web of life that is God's creation.

Perhaps we need to explore reforming all our communications to make them (1) competitive to all other communications in terms of their usefulness to members» lives; (2) made easily accessible for when members want to use them, rather than thrust on them involuntarily; and (3) the accessibility advertised rather than the information given.

The reform of canon law is still far away... in short, there is nothing like a new Pentecost to be noticed, but rather quarrels and alienation among Catholics themselves, new unsolved questions in theology as well as in Christian living on which we had seemed to be agreed before the Council, the continuing silent apostasy of the masses, the rejection of faith, Christian morality and conviction in public life.

There is nothing more holy» or terrifying» than reading what St. Catherine of Siena wrote about wayward clergy in her searing Dialogue; few sermons in Christendom equal the power of St. Alphonsus Liguori's on the enticements of the world; and how many of us would have the courage of a St. Charles Borromeo, who, as he implemented the reforms of the Council of Trent, had his life threatened multiple times?

President Obama has been a leader on so many of the issues and values religious Americans are passionate about — from comprehensive and just immigration reform to the Affordable Care Act to maintaining and supporting the critical role of faith in public life.

The most memorable portions of Way of the Prisoner and of Soering's second book, An Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse: An Essay on Prison Reform from an Insider's Perspective (Lantern, 2004), are the descriptions of prison life.

Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the sacrificial death of Jesus.

(I'm thinking of people like Lisa Sharon Harper, who has worked tirelessly on immigration reform; Justin Lee, who models and practices «living in the tension» through his work with the Gay Christian Network; Karla, the struggling mother of three whose infectious smile greets thousands of people at our local food pantry here in Rhea County; our friends from Samaritan's Purse working with Ebola patients in West Africa; or Sarah Bessey, who is expecting Tiny # 4 soon.)

Reform and reappropriation are always on the agenda, but to believe that there is some neutral ground from which we can rearrange the defining symbols and commitments of a living community is simply a mistake - a common mistake of modern liberalism.

Yet most economists, as well as many people living in countries newly committed to economic reform, overwhelmingly affirm Smith's views on the importance of free markets.

One social scientist recently replied to a flyer on behalf of a political action committee advocating ethically consistent life commitments in political life (embracing protection for the unborn, welfare reform, and nuclear disarmament):

Modern reformation movements in traditional Indian religions especially the movements of Neo-Hinduism indicated the impact of modernity on Indian life at its religious level, and India's liberal democratic and leftist ideologies guiding the struggle for political independence and nation - building in independent India, indicate the assimilation of Enlightenment humanism at the ideological level, though qualified a great deal by the reformed religious view of Gandhism.

With this rising population and the lack of radical reform in most underdeveloped countries, particularly in the rural communities where the large masses of these people live, the world food crisis will recur when again the crops are less favorable; the danger is that it will then gradually take on an ever more permanent and disastrous dimension.

We can speculate that Conceição, once disabused of the idea of reforming the national church, would have supported this solution, leaving an indelible mark on nascent Brazilian Protestantism (greater understanding of popular religiosity; Franciscan simplicity of life free of bourgeois tendencies; a mystical spirituality closer to the Latin heritage).

Jody has over 25 years of experience in the water sector where she has been responsible for driving a range of initiatives including state water reforms under the National Water initiative, driving the momentum and integration of The Living Murray, delivery of environmental water with and on behalf of Basin states, development and implementation of a plan to avoid widespread acidification to the lower lakes of the Murray system during the Millennium drought and identification of the sustainable level of take to be embodied in the Murray - Darling Basin Plan.

But when there's real progress underway — when the White House advances early childhood education; when a culture of school food reform is the new normal in districts nationwide; when the work takes on a life of its own — then the entrepreneur is ready to take on a different challenge, and begin work anew.

As a clinical psychologist, a mother of three and a co-founder of Challenge Success, a Stanford birthed project focused on school reform and parent education, I have seen the impact of excessive parental oversight and intrusion into every aspect of children's lives.

«The DWP may not like to hear it but its next wave of reforms will be a non-starter, unless the formula for increasing state pension age is firmly anchored on prior improvements to healthy life expectancy in poor communities,» Mr Harrop argued.

What is missing from the IMF's assessment is the fact that the reforms have had next to no impact on the elite's approach to development and the real lives of the poor.

We need a plan for social security reform, stronger protection for workers and a repeal of the trade union act, and a wide review on workers rights, a real living wage, investment in local services, and reversing Tory cuts to policing.

On June 26th, members of Anyone's Child - a group of families whose lives have been wrecked by drug laws and now demand reform - will gather in Westminster.

When the House of Representatives feed was cut during the House Democrats gun reform sit - in on the House floor, Representatives turned to their mobile devices and began broadcasting live through digital platforms like Periscope and Facebook Llive through digital platforms like Periscope and Facebook LiveLive.

In this post-crash era, and in the wake of unregulated globalisation, Labour needs to develop a politics of belonging and a reform of capitalism that draws on the traditions of the common good and a common life.

Although he spent much of the next and last eight years of his life in and out of prison, often on order of the House of Commons, sometimes the Lords, and finally Cromwell's Council of State, he nevertheless started a political movement which became a major source of constitutional ideas and a popular reforming movement.

And the situation will be even worse, the governor has warned, if the tax reform plan currently under negotiation on Capitol Hill eradicates New Yorkers» long - standing ability to deduct their state and local taxes, helping to take the sting out of the fact that they live in the state with the nation's highest property tax burden.

As the former leader of the New York State Assembly is currently on trial for his life, and a second former State leader is expected to begin his corruption trial next week, I probably don't need to tell you that frustration with the current state of affairs could encourage moderate and independent voters to embrace a party promising — well, reform.

[67] In January 2014 Miliband extended the concept of reform to include the «big five» banks, in addition to the «big six» utility companies, and discussed the impact of the cost - of - living on the «squeezed middle» saying «the current cost - of - living crisis is not just about people on tax credits, zero - hour contracts and the minimum wage.

Ironic, if Trump worked with moderate Republicans and Democratic Senators to implement a Health Care bill that lived up to what he promised during the campaign he could have enacted HC reform on Day 1 of his Presidency.

«He has compiled an outstanding record of accomplishment on reform of State government, workers» rights, property tax fairness, minimum wage, educational opportunity, worker's compensation, living wage, and health care.»

This is the balance of priorities which drug reform advocates have been demanding for decades: a focus on saving life rather than punishing it.

Ever since he announced his candidacy, Braunstein, 29, has campaigned on a platform of cutting spending, reforming Albany and protecting quality of life in northeast Queens, particularly for schoolchildren and seniors.

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

Where changes are fair, proportionate and encourage work we will support them as we have shown in respect of incapacity benefit, a reformed gateway for Disability Living Allowance and on upratings.

«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.

The union barons claim that the reforms will wreck the lives of their hard - working and low - earning members, but these claims do not stand up to even the slightest scrutiny - more on this later, and they have very effectively sought to link this issue with the issue of deficit reduction.

In fighting hard for campaign finance reform, even to the point of causing a stalemate on other major issues, the governor may yet win support from voters who expected him to live up to his feisty reputation.