Sentences with phrase «urgent reforms in»

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

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.

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

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

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.»

In our contemporary context, I would suggest, church reform is less urgent than the reform of political, social, and economic systems of domination, today exacerbated greatly by the phenomenon of economic globalization.

They show also that the root of the malaise of the Church, and of Christendom as a culture, did not lie and does not lie in structures, canon law, liturgy, or the use of the vernacular, necessary and urgent though reform in these spheres may have been.

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

«The reform and renewal of the Conservative Party is now urgent,» says Downing Street policy board chair George Freeman in recent a letter to the prime minister, seen by The House.

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

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.»

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

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.»

«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.

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

Home secretary John Reid is expected to outline a major overhaul of the criminal justice system next month, but today the prime minister outlined the key areas in which he believed reform was most urgent.

Michael Gove should listen to the Chair of the Select Committee for Education and «stop taking the urgent pills» in making such reforms at such a pace without piloting new qualifications or considering what schools consider to be successful in the current 14 - 19 structure.»

I thoroughly agree with the points made; in particular, electoral reform (pr) is urgent and necessary.

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.

«The reform and renewal of the Conservative Party is now urgent,» says Downing Street policy board chair George Freeman in recent a letter to the prime minister, seen by The House magazine.

The UK has a progressive, radical government with an intense and urgent programme of reform, so passing bills unimpeded in the second chamber would be expedient.

David Cameron raised the subject at PMQs on Wednesday when he demanded an urgent meeting of the party leaders so thrash out ideas for reform and he tries to further seize the initiative on the issue with an article in today's Mail on Sunday.

«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.»

Lords reform is also a low priority: «In terms of reform, having a more elected chamber, which is what I favour, to be frank is not an urgent priority.

«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.»

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.

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.

The report argues that, despite large - scale Lords reform being awaited, this step is urgent ahead of the general election in May 2015.

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.

It is particularly urgent that urban high schools be reformed, and in 2000, the Carnegie Corporation of New York launched a national initiative, Schools for a New Society, to help urban communities redesign their high schools.

According to a discussion guide created to accompany 180 Days: Hartsville, «viewers will experience a year in the life of one Southern town's efforts to address the urgent demand for reform in American public schools.»

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

Rather, local variances in system capacity, resources and student demographics make different reforms more or less urgent — and plausible — in some places than in others.

About the coalition: A + Denver, Democrats for Education Reform Colorado, Latinos for Education Reform, Padres & Jovenes Unidos, Stand for Children Colorado and Together Colorado collaborated this past year to write the report and to start an important and urgent conversation in southwest Denver.

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 light of recent events in which the demand for societal reform has become an urgent issue both abroad and at home — from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement — Ezawa's portrait of democracy could not be more timelIn light of recent events in which the demand for societal reform has become an urgent issue both abroad and at home — from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement — Ezawa's portrait of democracy could not be more timelin which the demand for societal reform has become an urgent issue both abroad and at home — from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement — Ezawa's portrait of democracy could not be more timely.

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.

«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 conditioninIn 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 conditioninin 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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.