Sentences with phrase «urgent need for reform»

It also demonstrates the urgent need for reform of our insolvency laws.

We agree with the president and education secretary on the urgent need for reform of our education system, and their assertions that everyone — educators, policymakers, students, parents, and community and business leaders — needs to assume greater responsibility for improved outcomes in our schools.

Close to 98 % of those who answered a survey on ScienceNet.cn regarding research funding mechanism voted for «urgent need for reform,» while 2 % voted for «no need for reform.»

The urgent need for this reform was highlighted by the recent news that disgraced former Suffolk County police Chief James Burke is collecting an annual pension of $ 145,485.

The defeat appears to have focused some minds about the urgent need for reform within English football.

Populorum Progressio, the pope notes, «repeatedly underlines the urgent need for reform, and in the face of great problems of injustice in the development of peoples, it calls for courageous action to be taken without delay.»

«I have spoken with the de Blasio Administration about the urgent need for reforms and called for substantive changes that include splitting the responsibilities of ACS into different agencies; implementing rigorous oversight over contract agencies; adequately training and supervising caseworkers; and providing deeper ongoing supports to children in foster care or child preventative services.»

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We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks, and it underscores the need for urgent reform.»

15:52 - The «urgent and practical need for reform» was the third reason for reform, by the way.

But regardless who wins the election, a serious case can be made for the need for urgent reform of electoral laws.

«The need for campaign finance reform in New York State is real and it is urgent.

The groups, also strong supporters of comprehensive campaign finance reform built around a core of public financing of elections, today focused on the urgent need for ethics reform as another essential way to address the problems created by a money culture in Albany.

«Sometimes the Lord works in strange ways, but he opened our eyes to the urgent need for real reform.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo released a statement in response to the Kruger - Boyland - Lipsky et al corruption scandal, saying today's arrests «again spotlight the failings of New York State government and highlight the urgent need for the Legislature to pass comprehensive ethics reform — now.»

This report, based on findings from focus groups and surveys with people working on the front line, underlines the need for urgent reform of the whole system.

When he did release a statement shortly before 5 p.m., Trump said the attack «once again highlights the urgent need for Congress to enact legislation reforms to protect the American people.»

«It will be for the party executive to decide whether it accepts the reforms proposed, but a party in such urgent need of reform blocks those changes at its peril.»

Buhari said his travails in courts during his failed bid for the nation's Presidency on three occasions, which took him to the Supreme Court three times, were clear indications that the judiciary needed urgent reforms.

Mr Cameron said he had broadened the Tories» funding base since becoming leader, but there was still an «urgent need» for wider reform in British politics.

They say with the most recent lawmaker names that have emerged in connection with a federal corruption investigation, the need for such reform is all the more urgent.

The need for mechanisms that will force reform is urgent, agreed Victoria McGovern, a senior program officer at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, one of the graduate education study's sponsors.

What's more, «[a] continued loss of postdocs without an alternative source of talented research personnel» for university labs portends harm to the «quality and quantity of our biomedical research,» making the need for reform more urgent than ever.

Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed that the need for reform is urgent, and their outlines of reform have often included many of the same elements.

But the message coming from the president and Congress has been loud and clear, and the need for reform and improvement is obvious and urgent.

Four national studies of education have focused public attention on the decline in achievement in those subjects and the urgent need for major reforms.

But the legislature's Democratic majority and most of Mr. Weld's fellow Republicans contended that the need for more state aid was too urgent to be delayed until a reform bill could be passed.

Secure Futures Colorado is a non-profit, bipartisan organization created to promote the urgent need for major reform of Colorado's public pension system, The Public Employees» Retirement Association (PERA).

Many consumer attorneys have advocated for years that the U.S. student loan industry needs urgent reforms.

In 2009, Commission on Social Action to the Union for Reform Judaism issued a resolution on the «unprecedented challenge of climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions» and need for urgent action.

But, given the host of competing problems — a deep economic recession, the urgent need for health care reform, geopolitical instabilities in the Middle East and elsewhere, soaring federal debt, and so on — selling the electorate on a set of fundamental changes in the way we consume and produce energy in the short run — and congressional appropriators on making the large investments needed to bring these changes about in the long run — will be a tough task, even for Barack Obama and his newly appointed team of highly competent advisers, and a Congress that has given every indication that it will take up and give priority to climate legislation.

We've heard so much about the need for reform throughout this area of law that we decided we could benefit from a vehicle for identifying the most urgent problems.

The need for reform of that sentence is urgent, she says, but guidelines requiring the passing of sentences of imprisonment on defendants over 21 of around 30 years before they are even considered for parole, are equally in need of revision.

He then discussed, «Why our rules of evidence are in urgent need of reformation,» and, «Why we Canadian lawyers should look to the American legal profession for assistance in reforming our own rules of evidence.»

Today's news that women pay significantly more in insurance premiums than men for individual health insurance policies is another reason for the urgent need for comprehensive health care reform,» said Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

We are seeking urgent discussions with the Prime Minister to ensure this Royal Commission actually meets the needs of those most affected, and ultimately creates the momentum for reform of the entire youth justice system in the NT.»