Sentences with phrase «urgent reform»

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

There are so much we can change, but I think the one thing that needs urgent reform is to change our teacher selection process.

Edgar Cahn, the visionary founder of the global TimeBanking movement, calls for urgent reform of our economic and social systems, policies and practices.

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called for urgent reforms in the Attorney General's Department in order to reduce bureaucracy and unnecessary delays in responding to cases sent to the office for advice and onward prosecution in the courts.

The full benefits of synthetic biology and nanotechnology will not be realized without urgent reforms...

Both of the men wished to see urgent reforms in the life of the church, one in its theology, the other in its order, which lays down an unbridgeable divide between married (parochial) and celibate (monastic) clergy.

May also stated that current House of Commons required urgent reform as they lacked «teeth».

Chair of Electoral Commission, who is probing possible Russian meddling in the Brexit vote, urges urgent reform of electoral laws to stop cheats

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

Britain could withdraw funding from the United Nations if the organisation fails to implement urgent reforms, Priti Patel has said.

Family mediation services are in need of urgent reform despite the government increasing the budget from # 15m to # 25m, according to Graham Lyons of Family First Mediation Service.

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called for urgent reforms in the Attorney General's Department in order to reduce...

Findings from the British Social Attitudes report published by the National Centre for Social Research earlier this year back the case for urgent reform of the law.

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.

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.»

Without a political resolution, Cyprus would not be able to push ahead with the urgent reforms it now needs, the agency added.

«In short, India's Home Ministry is using those aspects of India's bureaucracy, which are most in need of urgent reform, to systematically target NGOs with agendas and views that differ from its own.»

The shocking revelation that a Conservative party co-treasurer offered access to the prime minister and chancellor for up to # 250,000 underscores the need for urgent reforms to clean up political party funding in the UK.

Urgent reform and renewal is required.

Finally bring in the urgent reforms to defence procurement.

Without these urgent reforms, public trust in politicians will be further eroded.

«It is now clear from reports across the country that not only tenants but charities helping the homeless are being very poorly served by the local housing allowance, so will the Minister agree to urgent reform of that allowance, which, frankly, is failing the very people whom it was designed to help?

The list of urgent reforms is long — unless, that is, New Yorkers Against Corruption were just pretending to care about corruption all along.

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.

Nick Clegg refused to compromise with a City audience as he outlined why the banking sector needs urgent reform.

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.

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.

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.

I am in no doubt, however, of the challenges ahead — not least the need to convince the Prime Minister and the new Education Secretary, Justine Greening, of the case both for proper investment in our education service, as opposed to the damaging cuts currently in place, and for urgent reform of the Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 testing arrangements.»

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

We believe the Board was in need of change even before the current scandal broke, but the options scandal has served to underscore the need for urgent reform.

Posted in Food, International Agencies, News, Poverty Comments Off on Food System That Fails Poor Countries Needs Urgent Reform: UN Expert

«In spite of calls for urgent reform and broad recognition that the current rules penalised solar power and rewarded network gold - plating, governments have not even made glacial progress in the past five years, with the unpopular result of high electricity prices driven by the cost of network infrastructure to service people's desire for air conditioning.

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...]

A group of leading NGOs active in the Balkan region [1] are calling for urgent reform of the Energy Community Treaty, as its Ministerial Council prepares to meet in Kiev on September 23rd [2].

The move by ministers follows calls by Sir James Munby, England and Wales» most senior family judge, for urgent reform of the way in which vulnerable people give evidence in family proceedings.

Every jurisdiction has room for improvement in reaching some or all of the core objectives of the justice system, and in numerous instances, urgent reform is required.

Most legislators who have supported the bill agree that urgent reforms are needed in the bill to reduce the high insurance premiums that Floridians are asked to... (more) March 31, 2011

She says the law needs urgent reform to prevent parents from acting with impunity.