Sentences with phrase «who suggested reforming»

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question by Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Erica Jordan, who not - so - subtly suggested that Ryan's approach to healthcare reform, tax reform, and welfare reform was in conflict with the Church's social teaching, the very Catholic Speaker replied that he completely agreed with Sister Erica that God is «always on the side of the poor and dispossessed»; the real question was, how do public officials, who are not God, create public policies that empower the poor and dispossessed to be not - poor and not - dispossessed?

Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the sacrificial death of Jesus.

During an extended interview with Sam Roberts, the disgraced ex-governor, who has made no secret of his desire to re-enter the political stage, suggested Cuomo is too much a creature of Albany and too close to special interests to make the politically unpopular choices necessary to reform state government.

The voting evidence suggests it is the logical one although I guess electoral reform will be the stumbling block - http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mpsee.php Still, it would give Labour the chance to demonstrate that the Lib Dems are essentially a party of the centre - right in a way that we are not, to renew our policies, and to reach out to those genuinely progressive MPs who have, by some mischance, ended up in the Lib Dems.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who like the Legislature can appoint members to the commission, has suggested lawmakers should act on broader ethics reforms before receiving the pay increase and also «make their case» on why a salary increase is deserved.

Even so, I would never suggest that those who call for an English Parliament should have their bank accounts frozen, advocates of Scottish independence banned from standing for office, or proponents of constitutional reform prevented from leaving the country, in the same way that dissidents in the Soviet Union were once denied exit visas.

And, while we accept that Housing Benefit should be reformed, how can anyone on the benches opposite suggest that removing 10 % of the rent for a family's home from someone who has been looking for work for 12 months is fair?

The deputy party leader's comments echo those of Richard Reeves, who stood down last week as Clegg's director of strategy and suggested that Lib Dems would retaliate by blocking other constitutional measures if the prime minister failed to persuade Tory MPs to support Lords reform.

Some have suggested returning royal status to families who were stripped of it under a sweeping reform during the US occupation of Japan after World War II.

In the past, Governor Andrew Cuomo, a second - term Democrat, has repeatedly expressed support for a convention, suggesting a con con may be the only way to enact comprehensive campaign finance reform while Republicans who oppose a public matching system and donation limits continue to control the state Senate.

There are indeed Lib Dems close to Nick Clegg who have privately suggested that Cameron might be willing to put electoral reform «on the table».

«Those who suggest that the whole of government can focus on delivering on only one thing at a time seem to forget what reforms are already in progress across our public services — at precisely the same time and maintaining our relentless efforts to ensure our economy is on the right track,» Mr Alexander added.

WASHINGTON (CNN)-- The «Blue Dogs,» a group of moderate to conservative House Democrats who have worked to limit the price tag of health care reform legislation, are taking a hit from a prominent Republican who is suggesting that the group will ultimately prove ineffectual.

The authors suggest that a more meaningful source for an appraisal of health care reform would be «individuals who are especially informed — people who have spent their entire careers on the front lines of the health care system deciding how budgets are managed and how care is delivered — people like the leaders of America's hospitals and health systems.»

Dr O'Brien said: «According to a Pew Research Center report the majority of white Americans support stricter gun control, but the results of our study suggest that those who oppose gun reform tend to have a stronger racial bias, tend to be politically and ideologically conservative and from southern states, and have higher anti-government sentiment.»

Effecting change is difficult and if reform is to flow from the aftermath of the Ebola crisis, the WHO will need to move swiftly to embrace a few key recommendations that can be pushed through, suggested Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, a British charity that funds biomedical research.

It's small, vivid, performance by James, who suggests in just a few high - voltage scenes how her efforts to improve and reform Moll are framed by toxic judgment, guilt, and a need for control.

While education reform has taken a slightly different trajectory following the appointment of Theresa May as Prime Minister, who has since put forward proposals to lift the ban on grammar school in England, Education Secretary Justine Greening has reaffirmed the government's commitment to academies and suggested that they will still be a central part of education policy.

In preparing the report, the Mitchell Institute brought together a roundtable of education practitioners, government leaders, policy specialists and researchers who suggested two possible reforms: transforming secondary education and revitalising apprenticeships.

When I suggest that talkers and doers need to listen to those who see things differently, that policymakers are well - served by humility, or that reform needs to work for teachers as well as students, it's not because I want everyone to get along.

Recent revelations suggest that David Cameron's unexpected move to replace reform - minded education minister Michael Gove (who's been popular with British conservatives) with Ms. Nicky Morgan might have been triggered by more than crass pre-election maneuvering to placate teachers and women.

One might think, for a governor who managed to get so much education reform passed in his state, that he would have suggested a more pragmatic, at least, incremental, approach.

He suggests that schools can have only a limited influence on closing the achievement gap between students who live in poverty and their more affluent peers unless school improvement is combined with broader social and economic reforms.

If Japanese kids who were exposed to «reform» teaching strategies learned more than Japanese kids exposed to traditional instruction, and if great care were taken to make sure the two groups were equal on characteristics related to learning, then that would suggest the choice of instructional regime might be driving the learning differences.

Can anyone who has observed the conduct of the reform - resisters over the past two years seriously suggest that the children of Newark would have been better off in their hands?

Julio Fuentes, President and CEO of the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options (Hispanic CREO) suggested that Mr. Giordano was having a» bad day» and that his remarks «reflect a stunning insensitivity toward children who grow up in poverty.»

I suggest a conference entitled: «Education Reform Outside the Swamp», inviting «how to» speakers who show and tell us how tech can blow politicians off the critical path of student academic achievement.

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).

Governor Malloy suggested that his version of the «Education Reform» bill was the only way to improve educational opportunity for Connecticut's minority students and that anyone who opposed his bill was dedicated to preventing minority students from achieving.

Coming to Malloy defense was the Hartford Courant's Rick Green who used the opportunity to mock me and the underlying issue that I was raising and went on to claim that it was absurd to suggest that Governor Malloy, charter school proponents and their wealthy investors were part of some vast conspiracy to push Malloy's «Education Reform» legislation.

In an interview June 29 with the Pittsburgh Tribune - Review, House Minority Leader John Boehner, R - Ohio, suggested possible ways to reform Social Security, including raising the retirement age to 70 for people who are still at least 20 years away from retirement.

Here is the bottom line in the words of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, «Our analysis suggests that the 2005 bankruptcy reform negatively affected individuals who became delinquent by increasing the probability that they would become insolvent, a state associated with a high degree of financial distress.»

Letchworth Garden City was founded in 1903 by Ebenezer Howard, a visionary social reformer who suggested an alternative way of life in his 1898 book Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path To Real Reform, later reissued as Garden Cities of To - morrow.

Those who suggest that the Bar is set against the court reform programme are wrong.