Sentences with phrase «urgent need of reforms»

The Indian public sector banking system is also in urgent need of reforms to governance, management appointment processes, and decision making.

This area of law is in urgent need of reform.»

«Parliament recognised that the inquest system is in urgent need of reform when it passed the Coroners and Justice Act just two years ago with cross-party support,» Inquest co-director Helen Shaw said.

«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.»

The legislative framework surrounding the dissolution of marriage and civil partnerships is in urgent need of reform.

Although the purpose of the patent system is to promote innovation, the numerous hearings held by your two committees over the past five years have demonstrated that some aspects of the system today are in urgent need of reform.»

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This is unfortunate since the tax system, including EI revenues is in urgent need of serious reform and simplification.

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.»

The long established amateurish West Ham ways need urgent reform or we can never fit the apparent ambition of the surroundings; and will end up as just another Sunderland.

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

An open letter (also released to the press) sent on 2 February to Harriet Harman as Leader of the House, emphasising the urgent need to find Parliamentary time to debate and vote on the reforms.

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.

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.»

The English Football Association (FA) is in need of urgent reform if it is to tackle widespread problems in the game, MPs have said.

The attorney recalled the legislator talking with him ahead of a 2012 meeting with Mr. Ross and Mr. Beal at Porter House Restaurant on Columbus Circle — a meeting where the three were to discuss key races and the effort to block Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign finance reform proposals — where Mr. Skelos impressed upon him his son's urgent financial needs.

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.

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.

He said Britain's big banks were at the «very centre» of the financial crisis and needed urgent reform.

The government's new tax and spending watchdog needs urgent reform to establish its independence from George Osborne's Treasury, according to a report today by one of Britain's leading thinktanks.

The results of the trials have seen the government paint a picture of a system in need of urgent reform, where too many people are left abandoned «on the sick» with little prospect of finding work.

«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.»

If this campaign is not to become the most depressing in modern times the central issues, apart from sovereign debt, should be these: urgent reform of the City; the need to build a more balanced economy; youth unemployment; poverty in an era of spending cuts and pay freezes; electoral reform and a new constitutional settlement; the European Union and Britain's place within it; withdrawal from Afghanistan and a multilateral foreign policy.

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.

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.»

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.

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).

It is a simple but urgent plea to put the real needs of children at the center of the national conversation about education reform, which in its ideological divisiveness is in danger of leaving them behind.»

The clock is ticking on when tenure reform will become part of the discussion about the urgent need to improve student outcomes in Milwaukee.

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.

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.

The Guardian: The existing food system has failed and needs urgent reform, according to a UN expert who argues there should be a greater emphasis on local food production and an overhaul of trade policies that have led to overproduction in rich countries while obliging poor countries — which are often dependent on agriculture — to [continue reading...]

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.

I think it's a groundbreaking report, brimming with indisputable facts and uncomfortable choices about the state of the current system and the urgent need to reform it.

Nonetheless, in order to identify and implement reforms that will make a real difference to the experience of ordinary Canadians, this stakeholder group is in urgent need of expansion.

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.

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

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.»