Sentences with phrase «suggested reforms which»

Following the House of Lords» refusal to allow the government to enact secondary legislation during the row over tax credits cuts last year, the government set up the Strathclyde Review, which suggested reforms which could alter the balance between the government and the two houses of parliament.

Not exact matches

Critics of the tax reform, which also cut corporate tax rates in the U.S., suggested that companies would reward their shareholders rather than investing more money into the American economy with their newly - homebound cash.

The new coalition government has already suggested reversing several reforms introduced by the previous administration, which in itself is a dangerous proposition for the country, but the implication for the Continent could be greater and graver.

Abraham Geiger, a major thinker in the nineteenth - century Reform movement, declared that the idea of a postmortem existence «should not be expressed in terms which suggest a future revival, a resurrection of the body; rather they must stress the immortality of the soul.»

The Bay Area study which asked questions about personal meaning, for example, suggested that the content of different meaning systems was a good predictor of propensities to become involved in or to abstain from various social reform activities and alternative lifestyles.

His naive use of class differences to identify excellence («Ministers of the better class are not satisfied to accept the rural churches») and his explicit call for theological schools to train persons to minister specifically to the rich suggest that this interest in theology, which is otherwise so thoroughly underemployed in Harper's proposed reform of theological schooling, is vulnerable to ideological misuse as a «cover» that at once obscures and legitimates an underlying concern to secure the churches» social status.

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

[132] Reintroduction of the Preventive Health Bill suggests, however, that the Government is at least serious about setting up institutions which will be able to advise on appropriate preventative health 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.

«The proposals are the latest in a long line of measures which suggest that welfare reform is based on the notion that people in poverty are to blame for their circumstances.

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.

I suggested to him that this doesn't make much sense for the Democratic primary since the bulk of the vote comes out of NYC, which explains why all of the Democratic hopefuls — particularly Sen. Eric Schneiderman — are running so hard to the left and playing up issues like Rockefeller Drug Law reform, which has zero to do with the AG's office.

Polling suggests a relatively low level of salience and demand for some of the alternatives proposed (eg an English Parliament like Scotland's; regional assemblies which were strongly rejected; other reforms inside Parliament).

One obvious demand is electoral reform, although differing opinions between parties on the precise preferred option suggests an arcane argument over which variant might dominate early negotiations.

The cabinet is today expected to approve proposals to reform the House of Lords, which suggest it should be made up equal numbers of elected and appointed members.

«Brown did not suffer defeat because he wasn't good enough at selling himself or his vision for the country — insufficiently «touchy, feely», as he suggests in the book — but because he never seemed able to reconcile a robust and renewed modernisation agenda, which combined reform as well as investment, with his commitment to social justice.»

It takes an optimistic view of Gordon Brown's declaratory White Paper The Governance of Britain, yet to be translated into signifi cant reform, which may suggest an generous disposition.

Looking at various other reforms which have been suggested, people are happy with a new opt - out pension scheme — i.e. a national pension scheme to which everyone in work automatically pays into, unless they specifically chose not to.

The Reform of the House of Commons Committee (also known as the Wright Committee) suggested a number of changes which have, since their implementation, had a tangible effect on the relationship between Parliament and the executive.

But the former BBC reporter did suggest impending reform to the way the organisation is structured and the manner in which it dominates the market.

He suggested the defence reform bill, which is currently working its way through the Lords, would be a chance to revisit the coalition's plan to recruit and train 30,000 reservists to make up for the loss.

Danny suggested a referendum on the most modest form of electoral reform - the Alternative Vote (AV), which allowed candidates to be ranked in preference order and required MPs to secure 50 per cent of the vote to be elected - linked to Lib Dem support for the Conservatives» own reform plan, which was to reduce the number of parliamentary seats and to remove Labour over-representation.

He suggested that it hewed closely to a five - point plan he unveiled last month, which included enhanced disclosure requirements, per diem reform, a ban on personal use of campaign funds, and stiffer penalties for ethics violations.

At a time of dire fiscal shortages, and suggested cuts to education and healthcare, it is critical to reform the system which creates the perverse incentives for politicians to pass such inequitable tax policies.

He suggested the prime minister had had a «belated conversion to the cause of electoral reform which he has so successfully and personally obstructed for over a decade».

He also talks about the other reforms suggested by the report, which go beyond simply closing hospitals to save money.

Over the past year, Education Secretary Justine Greening has suggested discussions about reforming SRE guidance, which currently allows free schools and academies to opt out of teaching the subject in class.

To scholars, experimentation further suggests: 1) conducting studies in laboratories where external factors can be controlled in order to relate cause more directly to effect; or 2) randomly choosing which schools, classrooms, or students will be exposed to a reform and which will be exposed to the alternative with which the reform is to be compared.

DougCo suggests that the familiar paradigm of urban reform (which has driven so much of the K - 12 agenda in the past decade) may be an uncomfortable or problematic fit in suburban districts.

Table 1, which catalogs the most consequential state - level policy reforms relating to college remediation over the past decade, suggests the reform movement is continuing to gain steam (the Education Commission of the States [ECS] State Policy Database provides addition details).

Sally Collier, Chief Regulator, said: «I am encouraged by this study, which suggests that the reformed A levels in biology, chemistry and physics have continued to see practical skills prioritised as important parts of the qualifications.

This is what was suggested in a letter to the governor sent by a coalition of so - called reform groups (one of which is Michelle Rhee's group).

By Judy Lin More than 50 civil rights and education reform groups are using Jerry Brown to remind Jerry Brown of his pledge to help black and Latino students following an interview with CALmatters in which he suggested that disparities will persist despite government intervention.

But according to NEA, the reforms suggested by DFER (and many other groups) have «acquired a bit of a stench over the last few years, as the ideas with which it is most closely associated — high stakes accountability, vouchers, merit pay, charter schools, not to mention teacher bashing — have not worn well with much of the public.»

More than 50 civil rights and education reform groups are using Jerry Brown to remind Jerry Brown of his pledge to help black and Latino students following an interview with CALmatters in which he suggested that disparities will persist despite government intervention.

Charter School Choices The next round of reform deserves to go forward without tiresome attacks on charter schools, which have ranged from efforts by the Legislature to impose a moratorium on new charter schools to questionable union - sponsored studies suggesting that the movement is a failure.

She further suggests that a working model for educator preparation reform is the one used at the beginning of the last century in overhauling and upgrading the country's medical schools, which resulted in the closure of over half of the medical training programs over a 25 - year period.

Beyond primary maths, he also has concerns about the reformed GCSE, which is not only more rigorous in content, but the level at which pupils must perform to get a «good pass» is being increased — meaning proportionally more children will «fail» the qualification this summer (an analysis by Schools Week suggests that about one in four pupils who currently pass their GCSE maths will «fail» under the new system).

We are hopeful we will see more progress: The analysis of the three school districts — Pittsburgh, Memphis, and Hillsborough County — indicates an upward trajectory in five of the six achievement areas in the most recent year of the study, which suggests the reforms may be on the way to having a positive impact on student outcomes.

At a recent policy meeting of an education reform organization to which I belong, it was suggested to me, as an extrinsic reformer, that the burden of proof for our reform proposals is on us to show that they would not work to the detriment of the stakeholders in the status quo.

Education Week summarizes two recent reports that said federal policymakers, in their regulation of teacher evaluation, have focused on ««consequences» before putting their emphasis on professional development, which had the effect of alienating teachers and making it harder for them to buy into the reforms,» while suggesting «that the new evaluation systems either hold a lot of promise.»

This means 78 % of the subsidy was due to domestic pricing distortions which suggest that unilateral subsidy reform is in countries» domestic interests.

Exposure to these works — with which many Chinese artists might be familiar only in reproduction or online — is seen by Tinari as a means of fostering creative dialogue between the two artistic traditions and diminishing the «time - lag» that hindered domestic art for so long after the Reform and Opening Up period that followed Mao's death in 1976, traditionally taken as the «starting point» of contemporary Chinese art (Tinari concedes that this is a useful marker, but suggests that a new generation of art historians should «complicate» such simplified narratives).

We suggest that we should we go further and complain that the voice of the minority of lawyers only looking after bigger money cases is too loud in the babble from which reform may emerge.

The Young Report was published in November 2010 almost contemporaneously with the Civil Justice Green Paper which echoes many of the suggested reforms of Lord Justice Jackson.

Moreover, doctrinal entrenchment is particularly problematic in the FISA courts, where secrecy and institutional context indicate that outside efforts at doctrinal reform are less likely to be effective than they are with courts that publish their opinions.35 Unlike published opinions, secret opinions can not provoke the public into lobbying for a legislative override36 or judicial overruling37 — two important paths of legal reform.38 Perhaps to hedge against the risks of limited external oversight, FISA limits FISC and Court of Review judges to non-renewable, seven - year terms, 39 a provision suggesting that Congress envisioned a FISA court whose membership would be responsive to shifting factual circumstances and policy priorities.40 Stare decisis, which requires judges to adhere to interpretations of law that they might otherwise reject as unjust or unpersuasive, constrains these judges» ability to adapt to such factual and policy shifts.

My real fear is that this relentless pace of family fee reform is flawed; as the Justice Committee concluded: «The late commissioning of research, which should have been undertaken before formulating proposals, suggests an attempt to find support for conclusions already reached, rather than a genuinely evidence - based approach to reform.»

Insurance data suggests that nine out of ten people in New Hampshire have health insurance, which is higher than the national average; however, the average cost of New Hampshire health insurance is also higher than the national average, leaving residents extra concerned with how government health care reform will affect their budgets.

Against this approach of reforming the present system must be weighed the benefits of enshrining Indigenous rights to land in a completely different protective system to that which presently exists, such as an arbitral system suggested by Justice McHugh.

These references suggest that the 1997 levels were normal and are the appropriate level by which to gauge development and proposed reforms.