This has to raise the question: If Italy could not grow with a reform-minded government, why should we expect it to grow with a less reform-minded and a less budget-disciplined government?
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But immigration-reform minded lawmakers are also increasingly looking at Sen.
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Reform-minded European officials, such as Mr Draghi, depart this year.
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He is seen as less reform-minded than the new president.
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Reform-minded gangsters swear that they are cleaning up in other ways.
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The election is good news for Iran's reform-minded president, Hassan Rohani.
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The prosecutors' latest target is Oleksandr Danyliuk the reform-minded finance minister.
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They purged hundreds of thousands of reform-minded officials from the party.
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Dart has applied this reform-minded approach to his sheriff's deputies, too.
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The first era, of course, began with another reform-minded governor from Wisconsin.
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Reform-minded and ambitious, Prince Mohammed was keen to challenge the status quo.
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She helped Wesley Bell, a reform-minded City Council member, win that race.
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And is that what the reform-minded, socialist-leaning Democratic Party of 2018 wants?
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In 20173 the youngsters who did vote tended to opt for reform-minded Jokowi.
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And before that, Mr. Shokin had systematically cleansed his office of reform-minded prosecutors.
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Mr Obama and Fidel's relatively reform-minded brother Raúl announced the restoration of diplomatic ties.
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Current Politburo member This Chinese vice premier is often seen a reform-minded straight shooter.
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Remarkably, some reform-minded officials now actually speak about President Trump as a positive force.
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Chen obtained the support of Premier Zhao Ziyang and his reform-minded policy secretary Bao Tong.
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Reform-minded supporters recognize that Rouhani isn't perfect -- he too, after all, is also a cleric.
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An especially strong turnout of those reform-minded Iranians could tip the scales in their favor.
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Perhaps the reform-minded outsider isn't so much positioning himself to be the next transformative president.
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Some reform-minded folks, like myself, were still operating relatively untouched by Putin's wing of government.
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Cities and counties across the country have recently elected a new wave of reform-minded prosecutors.
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The reform-minded governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, was once seen as Mr Buhari's heir.
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Finn, a well-known shareholder activist, and reform-minded allies have long argued against dual shareholder classes.
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Instead, there has been a flurry of corruption scandals, and several top reform-minded ministers have resigned.
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North Tehran is also, in broad strokes, home to the capital's more liberal and reform-minded voters.
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But Roosevelt was popular in the country and accepted the nomination of the reform-minded Progressive party.
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Matteo Renzi, Italy's reform-minded prime minister, says he will resign if the result goes against him.
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Warren has taken some steps in recent weeks to alleviate voters' concerns about her reform-minded candidacy.
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A will to change this system is reflective of just how reform-minded a prosecutor may be.
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Al Smith was a reform-minded former governor aligned with Tammany Hall, the Manhattan-based Democratic political machine.
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For the center-left, France, with its reform-minded new President Emmanuel Macron, is a more appealing model.
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Many reform-minded prosecutors favor turning evidence over to the defense right away, unless it endangers a witness.
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"This finding did not surprise me," said Gerald Gurney, a former head of the reform-minded Drake Group.
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Reform-minded Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said last month he wants to salvage the $10 billion project.
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Mr Veneau voted for Emmanuel Macron, France's reform-minded young president, who vows to unblock the country's labour markets.
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The Qatari opposition in exile is headed by Khalid al-Hail, a reform-minded businessman who lives in London.
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The changes follow the lifting of restrictions by reform-minded Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the last year.
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It has been seen as a forum for more reform-minded officials and claimed a circulation of about 200,000.
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Historically, many people, particularly middle-class, reform-minded Americans, have thus viewed party organizations with suspicion, if not contempt.
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Laurent Berger, head of the reform-minded CFDT union, said the social environment was more explosive than in 1995.
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The businessman and master negotiator in the president has him taking reform-minded stances on behalf of the American people.
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If she's elected, she would join a host of other reform-minded district attorneys who've been elected across the country.
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Putin had — temporarily, it turned out — stepped down as president, with the younger, reform-minded Dmitry Medvedev in his place.
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Meanwhile they are being studied by reform-minded Republicans, grappling with the rejection of conservative verities that Mr Trump represents.
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Putin had - temporarily, it turned out - stepped down as president, with the younger, reform-minded Dmitry Medvedev in his place.
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The defeat of the House GOP's farm bill last week provides an opportunity to take a more reform-minded approach.
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Reform-minded Guo Shuqing, 61, the current chair of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, is viewed as the leading candidate.
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"That means that progressives and reform-minded moderates are going to need to bring forward much bolder proposals," she said.
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REFORM-MINDED Yi has advocated for interest rate and currency liberalization, cautioning against risks from excessive credit and money growth.
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Bad debts could increase if the weak economy becomes weaker — as it may without a strong reform-minded prime minister.
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Yet, no matter how sour their feelings about Mr. Rouhani, most reform-minded people in Tehran are sticking by him.
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Reframing drug abuse as a public health problem rather than a criminal one has prompted reform-minded legislation from both parties.
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Bad debts could increase if an already weak economy gets weaker - as it may without a strongly reform-minded prime minister.
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The most significant roadblock to reform-minded algorithmic analysis came from the Supreme Court, in an 1987 case, McCleskey v. Kemp.
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Like central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan and former finance minister Lou Jiwei, Guo is widely respected as a reform-minded policymaker.
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Filter out this doomy din, though, and a bunch of young, reform-minded conservatives can be heard making a different case.
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A reform-minded Chinese speaker said his country was "too big, too old and too conservative" to adopt a different model.
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Reform-minded Chinese officials and scholars are also coming around to the idea that real structural reform will benefit China's economy.
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And the House Freedom Caucus, which even opposed the more reform-minded Judiciary proposal on privacy grounds, is in outright opposition.
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In 1978, two years after Mao Zedong's death, a reform-minded Chinese official wrote an article in a Communist Party publication.
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In response, the right—and especially police unions—grew more vocal and vehement in denouncing activists and defeating reform-minded candidates.
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"He came across as more peace-prone, reform-minded and denuclearization-prone, which I think is a ruse," Mr. Lee said.
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Protests continue in Sacramento after the police killing of Stephon Clark; Ethiopia elects a new reform-minded leader after years of unrest.
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One exception: reform-minded defense attorney Jason Anderson, who managed to win in San Bernardino County against four-term DA Michael Ramos.
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He is a good choice: the former head of Engro, the country's biggest private conglomerate, Mr Umar is reform-minded and admired.
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"It is a good, consistent story, they have the demographics, they are very reform-minded," said another fund manager attending the meetings.
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There seems to be a tug of war inside the Trump administration, with Kushner representing the more modern, reform-minded GOP approach.
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Support for hardline unions has declined, notably with the emergence this year of the reform-minded CFDT as the single-largest union.
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And they used Wednesday's forum to push the students to focus their energies to fight for reform-minded candidates in November's midterms.
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They tend to vote for reform-minded candidates, and a large youth turnout could steer Iran further away from the strict conservatives.
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Reform-minded judges had called for an investigation even before Ms. Park was ousted, while others derided the investigation as politically motivated.
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Firtash also pressured the administration of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to remove Naftogaz's reform-minded chief executive, Andriy Kobolyev, Perry said.
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Then, last April, Imam Nahrawi, the minister of youth and sport and a member of the reform-minded Jokowi's administration (red jerseys) intervened.
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He's a complete insider whose swampy ways in Columbia have put him on the other side of reform-minded candidates like Nikki Haley .
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Their goal: Slowly fill the government with reform-minded young people like Tregub and finally set the central government on the right path.
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Honest politicians such as Klaus Iohannis, the president, and those in the reform-minded Save Romania Union (USR) party are in the minority.
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And that's led legislators in several states to pass laws that seem to contradict the reform-minded movement of the past several years.
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It's not yet clear when the law will be effective, but it's already seen as a huge win for Modi's reform-minded administration.
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"Ali was the leading advocate for MBS as a transformative reform minded leader," Miller added, referring to the crown prince by his initials.
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One of China's most charismatic and reform-minded oil industry executives, Fu is now a member of a parliament's largely ceremonial advisory body.
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Once the gas billions flowed, starting in about 2000, family tensions eased, paving the way for an ambitious, reform-minded cast of royals.
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Instead, it feels like an attempt to persuade reform-minded people that "the public" — minivan mom, yuppie bike guy, diner grandpa — feels differently.
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A Moskovitz-led group, the Open Philanthropy Action Fund, donated $8003,000 to Real Justice PAC, a group seeking to elect reform-minded prosecutors.
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In June 1989, they permitted the reburial of Imre Nagy, the reform-minded former prime minister who was executed after the 53 revolution.
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"It was the perfect situation for some kind of outsider who would capture that mantle and consolidate the reform-minded vote," he said.
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I can tell you that even some very progressive and reform-minded offices want nothing to do with the over-incarceration of violent offenders.
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Were it not for Mr Trump, reform-minded conservatives would probably be cutting a far more Trumpian path (loosely defined) than they are now.
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Jon Tester – who has become Cryin&apos Chuck Schumer&aposs puppet in the D.C. swamp – or vote for Rosendale, a reform-minded Washington outsider.
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The common denominator in these redistricting battles is the determination of reform-minded voters who see how polarization has hamstrung government and halted progress.
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Several reform-minded MPs have called for the creation of a special investigative committee in parliament, while populists are clamouring for Mr Poroshenko's impeachment.
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Reform-minded voters, many of whom supported Rouhani as well as Mousavi and Karoubi, are likely to see Khamenei's comment as aimed at them.
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I've seen how this "old way" played out in my own family, and it puts Pope Francis' more reform-minded church in useful perspective.
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Still, its ongoing, reform-minded action has left some advocates excited, or at least hopeful, that it could set a different kind of precedent.
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Conservatives held most of the seats of power, but reform-minded politicians, activists and policy mavens were thinking big about labor's rights and wrongs.
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Mr. Schwarzenegger and other reform-minded Republicans ought to create a new party that can woo independent voters, former Republicans and even disaffected Democrats.
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The gesture was emblematic of how Hungary's reform-minded governing Communist party was jettisoning what had become the standard authoritarianism of the Soviet bloc.
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The allegation tarnished the clean and reform-minded image of Roh, a former labor activist who has been a symbol for progressives in South Korea.
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And most state legislatures are Republican-controlled, meaning that reform-minded advocates probably should not rely on them either to enact significant voting rights expansions.
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Time and time again, reform-minded French Presidents have retreated in the face of opposition on the streets, in the form of strikes and demonstrations.
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Matteo Renzi, Italy's reform-minded prime minister, says he will resign if the result of a referendum on constitutional reform goes against him in October.
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With European pressure and a reform-minded administration, Ukraine stood on the threshold of true reform, as international pressure aligned with the new Zelensky regime.
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The best investment for a reform-minded liberal billionaire concerned about the state of American democracy would be to spend lavishly on state legislative races.
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"The role of chief law enforcer for a community is not always the first role many people think of that are reform-minded," he said.
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But Peter Roby, a former basketball coach at Harvard who serves on the reform-minded Knight Commission, said the N.C.A.A. was making an appropriate link.
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He was a KGB officer in Dresden, East Germany, one of the least reform-minded satellites of the Soviet Union -- and then the Wall comes down.
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Editorial In the two-plus years since he took office, Ken Thompson, the district attorney for Brooklyn, has become a national leader among reform-minded prosecutors.
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Some have been in office for as long as 35 years, while others were elected last fall as part of a wave of reform-minded prosecutors.
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Wang Yang, the Chinese vice premier who is likely to head the country's top political advisory body soon, is often seen a reform-minded straight shooter.
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In the final hours before Parliament voted him out, Mr. Shokin had fired his reform-minded deputy prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze, with whom he had been feuding.
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One reform-minded club member who spoke on the condition of anonymity, for fear of damaging professional relationships, wondered whether the club's days might be numbered.
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But reform-minded supporters who helped him win the election in May are concerned he will not keep his promise to appoint women to his cabinet.
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Overturning Citizens United continues to be a rallying cry for reform-minded Democrats, as Republicans continue to block efforts to fix the system at every stage.
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Allies of the reform-minded president, Hassan Rouhani, now control Tehran's 30-seat parliamentary delegation, and two radical clerics were ousted from the powerful Assembly of Experts.
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TPP was intended to create a template for a trading system that might eventually include China, and perhaps give reform-minded Chinese policymakers something to aim for.
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With Crowley, Dems have their Cantor moment Crowley's surprise loss on Tuesday is the biggest prize the reform-minded Democrats who backed Sanders have claimed so far.
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That decision now raises for reform-minded Ukrainians the unhappy possibility that a weakened and divided EU will no longer be there to push democratic progress forward.
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He and his allies turned back a push by reform-minded lawmakers to impose significant new safeguards to protect Americans' civil liberties against the potential for abuses.
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That's what it took last November when voters in Chicago, Houston and other cities ousted prosecutors who were not serving their interests and elected reform-minded candidates.
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The reform-minded CFDT union, France's largest, is open to the planned universal "points" system, but says an increase of the retirement age "crosses a red line".
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Later this month, the government is expected to forecast strong growth and lower inflation for 2018, a testament to the reform-minded agenda of President Mauricio Macri.
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The campaign's bet is premised on the idea that the benefits of accepting super PAC support outweigh the likely blowback from rivals and reform-minded primary voters.
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Reform-minded Iranians could still have an impact this time by mustering a large voter turnout and electing at least a few more like-minded candidates to office.
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But the actions of Alvarez's counterparts in New York City, Baltimore, and Boston offer a glimpse of what's possible when a reform-minded prosecutor is at the helm.
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The corruption issue makes Blaine unpopular not just with Democrats, but also with reform-minded Republicans, a group labeled "Mugwumps," an Algonquin word for holier-than-thou types.
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"I am sure that lawmakers would be delighted to vote the reform-minded Danylyuk out of office," said Timothy Ash, senior emerging markets strategist at Bluebay Asset Management.
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Beginning a cannabis conversation with two other reform-minded leaders to look the future of legalization in the face could prompt more drastic, yet much needed, legal change.
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To tell the important story of Egypt's Arab Spring, and to spotlight Myanmar's transformation under a reform-minded government, OHI helped facilitate programs that brought together young journalists.
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Poroshenko — a confectionary and media oligarch — served as president of Ukraine from 2014 until May 2019, when he lost a reelection bid to the reform-minded Volodymyr Zelensky.
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He goes around the country as an evangelist for reform-minded prosecutorial work, often trying to talk aspiring public defenders to embark on his line of work instead.
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At the same time, its reform-minded enclaves, committed to institutional poverty, supported themselves through handiwork, including art, and kept strong evangelistic ties to emotion-fueled popular religion.
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For reform-minded bosses, a harsh Justice Department report and several years of court supervision can provide the political cover and authority they need to shake things up.
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Last year, on a trip to Europe, the country's reform-minded president, Hassan Rouhani, boasted that Iran was "the safest, the most stable country" in the Middle East.
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Background: Jokowi is Indonesia's first president not to emerge from the military or the political elite and has presented himself as a reform-minded man of the people.
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Some club members were discombobulated, but young, reform-minded McGovern campaign workers were even more taken aback when they gravitated to Mr. McManus's old-school clubhouse to volunteer.
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Zelenskiy, a former comedian, was elected despite having no prior political experience, so investors are watching closely to see how many reform-minded people he brings into cabinet.
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Police unions and correctional officers' unions, which have stood in the way of reform-minded policy initiatives in states and cities across the country, have been exempt as targets.
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The hostility such rhetoric stoked against the Islamic Republic empowered Iran's conservatives, troubled reformists and journalists, and helped undermine the reform-minded presidency of Mohammad Khatami a decade ago.
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Reform-minded Mohammed bin Salman has long been a prominent figure in Saudi politics, seen as a key power player behind the king and a reformer by Saudi standards.
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Rome (CNN)Several dozen conservative Catholic scholars and clergy have charged Pope Francis with spreading heresy, a bold but perhaps futile salvo against Francis and his reform-minded papacy.
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Two years later, Kim ordered the execution of his uncle Jang Song Thaek, the country's chief interlocutor with China and a relatively reform-minded official in the hermetic state.
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For example, Kampala, Uganda, recently set out a plan to improve its governance and financial management, and has gained a reputation as an effective, reform-minded and innovative authority.
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Haley essentially sent a message to all international agencies that they'll have to answer to an "America First" administration hostile to global policymakers and a reform-minded Republican Congress.
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Reform-minded Americans understandably are looking elsewhere for leadership, but the fact they're hoping to find it in those very same destructive forces shows just how desperate we've become.
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On the contrary, Fayyad has long been a source of irritation to the Palestinian Authority which perceives the reform-minded, American-educated economist as an outsider with suspect loyalties.
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The book lays out a path for urgent and necessary changes to the current system, and features a group of young, reform-minded district attorneys who give Bazelon hope.
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For the reform-minded, the ethics panels' paralysis is yet another symptom of a willful ignorance that allows the Capitol to make much of minor improvements while circumventing real change.
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However, the election as France's president of the reform-minded and Germanophile Emmanuel Macron has created an opportunity for closer integration of the euro zone, which Germany has long resisted.
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The reform-minded in Tehran are energized, but their strategists talk of making the economy a priority and taming the extreme hard-liners, rather than pursuing social or political liberalization.
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" From Bloomberg: "As investors breathe a sigh of relief that recent market-friendly policies are safe for now, none of the centrist, reform-minded candidates are polling beyond single digits.
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The steps include tackling corruption by installing a new, reform-minded general prosecutor, and sticking to an International Monetary Fund assistance program rather than trying to renegotiate it, Hahn said.
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Ethnic rifts were not nearly as visible when the older Mr Rajapaksa was ousted in an electoral upset in 2015 by a coalition of reform-minded Sinhalese and frightened minorities.
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Speaking alongside Odessa customs chief Yulia Marushevska, Saakashvili said the work of reform-minded public officials in Ukraine had been thwarted by higher authorities interested in preserving the status quo.
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But while reform-minded members of the more established groups are maturing, a younger set of L.A.-style street gangs is rising in New Zealand, many of them Maori and Polynesian.
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IF YOU turned on the news in Saudi Arabia a decade ago, you were likely to see a relatively young, reform-minded prince who was bent on securing the kingdom's future.
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Mexicans overwhelmingly elected a reform-minded government this July that offers the promise of restoring rights for Mexican workers, thereby helping to protect conditions for workers in the U.S. and Canada.
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A further reason for comfort in last weekend's French election results is that it heightens the prospect that a reform-minded and centrist, Emanuel Macron, will become the country's next president.
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Two years ago, Jones and another former federal prosecutor, James E. Johnson, and other law enforcement officials formed Law Enforcement Leaders To Reduce Crime & Incarceration, a bipartisan, reform-minded advocacy group.
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Laurent Berger, head of the reform-minded CFDT trade union, France's largest by members, on Sunday accused Macron's government of going it alone at a time it needed to reach out.
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On Monday, just hours before Abe's election announcement, Tokyo Governor Koike said she would lead a new conservative, reform-minded "Party of Hope" to offer voters an alternative to the LDP.
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On Tuesday, voters in St. Louis County will choose between Robert McCulloch, who was sharply criticized for his handling of the Michael Brown shooting, and Mr. Bell, a reform-minded challenger.
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"Our elected officials are not going to step up and pass any new laws to prevent actual corruption," concluded Dick Dadey, the executive director of Citizens Union, a reform-minded group.
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And that's precisely why police are so invested in this war—to keep the state out of the hands of reform-minded public officials and those who seek to elect them.
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The ruling is a win for Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins, a reform-minded prosecutor who said many of the 30-plus arrests at the parade were not worth prosecuting.
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"If they are going to have one, at least disavow it so you can pretend to be reform minded," said Brian Fallon, a former communications director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
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The shaky island government, spendthrift in the past, will have to convince Washington that it is reform-minded, as with the recent resignation of the head of the dysfunctional power authority.
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The night before, negotiations with Chicago's reform-minded mayor, Rahm Emanuel, had gone south, and the new activist leaders of the city's 25,000-member teachers union, clad all in red, walked out.
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"Compared with the government and the parliament, the presidency was an institution that seemed to maintain a relative measure of trust," writes Svitlana Zalishchuk, a reform-minded MP from Mr Poroshenko's party.
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Even after Mr. de Blasio took office in 2014 and appointed the reform-minded Joseph Ponte as correction commissioner, Mr. Seabrook continued to behave as if he were in charge of Rikers.
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House Republican leaders will bring a pair of immigration bills to the floor next week, sinking a push from reform-minded centrists to force votes on bipartisan bills opposed by GOP leadership.
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This administration should take cues from conservative states and use an outcome-oriented, reform-minded approach, rather than big-government "law and order" rhetoric, and urge congressional Republicans to do the same.
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The tough reality for reform-minded representatives elected to Congress for the first time this month is that their most important point of leverage will occur right after they've been sworn in.
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"Budget offices, because they have so much power and institutional knowledge, can be seen as obstacles by reform-minded government leaders," said Andy Smarick, a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.
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Some conservatives who had been aligned with Fidel Castro are unhappy with the thaw in relations between the United States and Cuba and may be working to outmaneuver more reform-minded competitors.
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The improbable diplomatic bromance between Reagan, an unbending anti-Communist, and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the reform-minded general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, yielded many memorable moments on the public stage.
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Rather than trying to elicit horror or pity, "The Laundromat" aims to provoke a sense of spirited outrage, the sort of righteous disgust that might express itself through reform-minded citizen action.
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That stunning courtroom face-off and arrest this week have sparked a heated debate about the legal separation of powers, free speech,and a prosecutor's ability to carry out reform-minded agendas.
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Now I'm not saying they endorse all of this stuff, but I am saying we have leadership at the department that is very reform-minded and we have been talking with them.
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His other prescriptions reflect his preference for New Deal populism mixed with what he fashions as "neoliberalism," a reform-minded approach to governance that questions progressive pieties on such issues as education.
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The arrival of Emmanuel Macron as France's reform-minded new president—his party is set for a giant victory in parliamentary elections this week—is helping to transform attitudes from gloom to cheer.
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Reform-minded technocrats are forced to contend with deep-rooted corruption, the distracting and costly fight against the Islamic State (IS) group, and low oil prices, all of which have drained state coffers.
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Officials at the more reform-minded CFDT union said on Sunday they did not want a drawn-out conflict but that their proposed amendments to the shake-up had fallen on deaf ears.
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The former Florida governor said he saw a path to winning the nomination by running as a "reform-minded conservative," but he acknowledged that wasn't what the electorate was looking for in 2016.
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And in 2018, Wesley Bell, a reform-minded prosecutor who was active in the 2014 protests, was elected St. Louis County prosecutor, defeating the prosecutor who failed to get charges brought against Wilson.
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Editor's note: As New York braced for an historic visit by reform-minded Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in December 803, media reports indicated a tour of Trump Tower would be on his itinerary.
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Cases like Mr. Charles's make some criminal justice reform advocates say they would welcome a reform-minded president willing to bypass the system and more boldly wield the constitutional power to grant pardons.
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On Saturday, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe offered to withdraw plans to raise the retirement age if the pension budget can be balanced another way, driving a wedge between hardline and reform-minded unions.
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On Saturday, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe offered to withdraw plans to raise the retirement age if the pension budget can be balanced another way, driving a wedge between hardline and reform-minded unions.
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Rousseff's declining popularity has already forced her to replace Joaquim Levy, her reform-minded and well-respected minister of finance, with someone less committed to face up to the country's formidable economic problems.
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"Remember the ACC passage is key to getting IMF lending back on track," he wrote, adding he was sure many lawmakers would be glad to vote out of office the "reform-minded" finance minister.
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"The expectations of really big reforms from 2014 are a bit tempered now, but I think we'll see a broadly reform-minded and business-friendly government," said Shilan Shah, India economist at Capital Economics.
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Bruno Le Maire, named French economy minister, is a reform-minded conservative whose expertise on Europe and staunch defense of the Franco-German relationship will prove valuable as Macron pushes for closer EU integration.
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Bruno Le Maire, named French economy minister, is a reform-minded conservative whose expertise on Europe and staunch defence of the Franco-German relationship will prove valuable as Macron pushes for closer EU integration.
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"The UN is certainly entering a new cycle and I believe it is a positive one…certainly the UN needs reform and the new Secretary-General is a reform-minded Secretary-General," he attested.
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Khamenei, whose power far outweighs that of Iran's elected officials in parliament or the presidency, gave decisive support to the nuclear deal which greatly strengthened the position of Rouhani, the reform-minded centrist president.
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Others argue that while the recent rally has left valuations pricier based on forward earnings, those earnings could rebound to a more normalized level if a reform-minded government succeeds in lowering interest rates.
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But thanks to reform-minded candidates willing to challenge powerful incumbents, and voters willing to show up to the polls to support them, New York is a little more democratic than it was yesterday.
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In the same speech this month, when he unveiled his "meteorite" of a missile, Mr. Putin said all the right things about the economy, apparently at the behest of his few reform-minded advisers.
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The presidential candidate seeking to distinguish herself might start by looking at a new wave of reform-minded district attorneys who are challenging conventional law-and-order approaches in red states and blue ones.
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France's biggest union, the reform-minded CFDT, is cautiously open to reforming the pension system to make it fairer, but more hardline unions like the CGT are opposed outright and have promised a fight.
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A wild-card joining them onstage will be a new contender, Tom Steyer, a former hedge fund investor who has spent lavishly from his personal fortune to brand himself as a reform-minded outsider.
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Bitter experience has since brought reform-minded voters back to the electoral arena, and the flexible but firm insistence of those voters appears to have brought at least some politicians back to their side.
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The reform-minded CFDT union, which has hitherto stayed out of the strikes, said a "red line" had been crossed and that it was calling on members to join mass protests on Dec. 17.
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The reform-minded Chinese officials who negotiated the country's entry into the W.T.O. hoped it would force China to become more market oriented and shake up the sluggish state-controlled part of the economy.
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As his campaign gathered steam, Zelenskiy brought reform-minded former ministers to his team as advisers, providing a measure of reassurance to investors who nevertheless found his answers on policy questions vague at times.
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Henderson and Washington speak to a larger nationwide trend of reform-minded DA candidates winning elections against tough-on-crime incumbents, especially in some of the counties that use the death penalty most frequently.
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Conservatives have long controlled the levers of power in Iran, but a more reform-minded parliament could help Rouhani loosen restrictions on society and the press, according to Kishi, the U.S. Institute of Peace researcher.
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A reform-minded conservative, Le Maire has steered Macron's drive to lighten the government touch on the economy and cut red-tape, and is overseeing a push to privatize airports and other state-controlled companies.
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In Iran, there is a constant tug-of-war between politicians like President Hassan Rouhani -- reform-minded, at least by Iranian standards -- and the conservative, revolutionist clergy, with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at the helm.
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Seated next to Liu was People's Bank of China Governor Yi Gang, a reform-minded official has advocated further opening of China's financial services markets, with officials from the Finance and Commerce ministries also present.
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And when Mr. de Blasio hired the reform-minded Joseph Ponte from Maine as the corrections commissioner, Mr. Seabrook called the mayor's appointment a "bad move," describing Mr. Ponte as the "hug a thug" type.
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But beginning in 2013, when the late Ken Thompson unseated a 23-year incumbent in Brooklyn, voters have elected 30 reform-minded prosecutors, in municipalities as varied as Corpus Christi, Kansas City and San Francisco.
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Backed by a reform-minded Mayor John Lindsay, who'd built avenues of trust in Harlem by walking its streets on more than one occasion, the festival stood as a symbol of hope and everyday placemaking.
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Backed by a reform-minded Mayor John Lindsay, who'd built avenues of trust in Harlem by walking its streets on more than one occasion, the festival stood as a symbol of hope and everyday placemaking.
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"They were now peddling false information in order to exact revenge against those who had exposed their misconduct, including U.S. diplomats, Ukrainian anti-corruption officials, and reform-minded civil society groups in Ukraine," Kent said.
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Seated next to Liu was People's Bank of China Governor Yi Gang, a reform-minded official has advocated further opening of China's financial services markets, with officials from the Finance and Commerce ministries also present.
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Among those arguing this are reform-minded groups like the Brennan Center for Justice, which wants the US to dramatically shrink its prison population to, hopefully, lose its status as the world's leader in incarceration.
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IMF DEALS As his campaign gathered steam, Zelenskiy brought reform-minded former ministers to his team as advisers, providing a measure of reassurance to investors who nevertheless found his answers on policy questions vague at times.
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In response to the Labour Party's growing political clout, a reform-minded Liberal government had introduced compulsory national insurance in 1911, which provided sickness pay, maternity benefits and limited unemployment assistance to the hard-working poor.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A constitutional law textbook written by one China's best-known reform-minded legal scholars has been pulled from book shops, apparently the latest text to run afoul of a government campaign against "Western influence".
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Of course, none of this is what Trump seems to be looking for; his tweets and history have suggested a far more aggressive, less reform-minded approach toward police and the criminal justice system in general.
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The reform-minded CFDT union, the largest in France, said it regretted the vote's outcome as well as Janaillac's decision to quit, but that it would not sign the pay offer in light of the result.
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Alex Vatanka, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, said Iran's most reform-minded president, Mohammad Khatami, won the presidency 20 years ago and remains a political force not because he promised jobs, but greater freedom.
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In late 2010, however, Saqr Ghobash, the UAE's reform-minded minister of labour, issued a decree allowing workers with contracts expiring after January 2011 to look for work elsewhere after they had served out their contracts.
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Born to a prominent family in Ivory Coast, he cut short a career at McKinsey & Company in Paris in 1994 to join a reform-minded government in his home country as a top banker and minister.
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"There's been incredibly rapid change in public opinion, in attention to criminal justice," Silard said, citing his decades-long experience in the criminal justice system and current experience as president of the reform-minded Rosenberg Foundation.
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TEHRAN — Nearly three years after Iran's reform-minded president was elected, the most reactionary voices in Iranian politics are losing ground to moderates buoyed by the sweeping nuclear deal with big powers, including the United States.
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Arthur was an instrument and major beneficiary of the system as the federal customs collector of the Port of New York until he was sacked in 1878 by his reform-minded fellow Republican, Rutherford B. Hayes.
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"We really came to understand the essential role of prosecutors," said Shaun King, a Black Lives Matter activist who started the Real Justice PAC, a group that focuses on electing reform-minded prosecutors across the country.
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Asked about the seeming antipathy to Islam that appeared to inform the order, the White House pointed to Mr. Trump's comments in the August speech and on another occasion that signaled support for reform-minded Muslims.
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The government's strategy is to pick off individual sectors with bespoke concessions, raising questions over prospects for ending up with the desired single system, and seek a compromise with the reform-minded CFDT union, France's largest.
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Against all odds, a young and reform-minded Emmanuel Macron managed to stave off challenges from both Jean-Luc Melenchon on the far left and Marine Le Pen on the far right of the political spectrum.
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Western backers saw the reform-minded foreigners in the upper echelons of the Ukrainian government, including many Georgians who came along with Mr Saakashvili, as a sign of the new leadership's commitment to change after the revolution.
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But the anti-Hernández vote is split between Mr Nasralla and Luis Zelaya (no relation to Manuel), a reform-minded former professor who is running as the candidate of the Liberal Party, the other traditional political force.
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Reform-minded prosecutors won on election night, and judges who were painted as "soft on crime" were re-elected, even when they faced well-funded opposition that relied on the out-of-touch "tough on crime" message.
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The Republicans soon split into Conkling's "Stalwarts"—pro-patronage and eager, after a decent interval, to restore the pliable, obliviously corrupted Grant—and Blaine's more reform-minded "Half-Breeds," their name one that Conkling no doubt relished.
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"Now that we realize the heavy arm of immigration consequences, it's requiring new thinking," said Miriam Aroni Krinsky, a former federal prosecutor and the founder of Fair and Just Prosecution, a nonprofit that supports reform-minded DAs.
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Some senior members of Mr Trump's team have supported the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, a cult-like dissident group that was until recently considered a terrorist organisation in Europe and America, and provokes revulsion even among reform-minded Iranians.
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In the middle of all of this, she launched an open portal that showed how every dollar was being spent of the loans and grants she controlled, something she says also irked the less reform-minded civil servants.
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To publicly embrace the enemy's most subversive soft power is to whitewash his menacing totalitarian self as a reform-minded, confident, well-meaning and — perish the thought — even "hip" young leader presiding over a not-so-abnormal nation.
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Saudi Arabia's crown prince is seen as a strong leader who will take the country in the "right direction" and young Saudis are — for the most part — throwing their weight behind the reform-minded heir to the throne.
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"Some clarity on these risks seems likely by late 2017 and in fact perceived political risk could turn positive if more reform-minded leadership is in place in some of the major European governments," BAML's strategy team said.
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The movement led to the election of a reform-minded St. Louis County prosecutor named Wesley Bell who defeated longtime incumbent Bob McCulloch, the man who announced that the officer who killed Michael Brown would not be charged.
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He never lost hope, he said, that the East-West division would be overcome, and he said that he envisioned it coming after the reform-minded Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev came to power in Moscow in 21989.
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It was in his interest to see the former ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, fired, because her work against corruption — particularly her support for the reform-minded chief executive of Naftogaz, Ukraine's national gas company — threatened his business interests.
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Speculation had swirled they could be given greater leeway under King Salman after he sacked a reform-minded religious police chief, a sworn foe of Saudi conservatives, in one of his first decisions after assuming the throne last year.
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Ms. Cabán, 31, has received the backing of Larry Krasner, the Philadelphia district attorney, and Rachael Rollins, Boston's reform-minded prosecutor, both of whom are already enforcing some of the same policies that Ms. Cabán says she would adopt.
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The scenes outside Mr. Saakashvili's apartment on Kostelnaya Street left some aghast, with Mustafa Nayyem, a reform-minded member of Parliament and a key figure in the 2013-14 protests against Mr. Yanukovych, describing them as "idiotism" on Facebook.
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TEHRAN — President Hassan Rouhani, endorsed by Iran's supreme leader on Thursday with a nationally televised cheek-kiss, is starting his second term under newly intense pressure from both hard-line opponents and many of his own reform-minded supporters.
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The deeply conservative Muslim kingdom is ending a nearly 13-year ban on commercial cinemas, which were shuttered in the early 1980s under pressure from Islamists but are returning through a modernising drive by the reform-minded crown prince.
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Half of these units are less than four years old, and the pace at which they are being created has accelerated in recent years, tracking an increase in reform-minded prosecutors winning election in mid-size and large cities.
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Faced with the possibility that Prince Ali's support in Asia might shift to Sheikh Salman, European leaders, and reform-minded voters from elsewhere, could back Prince Ali on the second ballot rather than risk Sheikh Salman getting over the threshold.
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The New York Fed president's "bully pulpit is an important one" on both monetary and regulatory policy, he said, adding Trump's selection of Powell and not a more reform-minded nominee for Fed chair may have allowed Dudley to retire early.
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The former ministers are both known as reform-minded, pro-Western, anti-corruption politicians and their support for Zelenksy, as well as the endorsement of a leading anti-corruption activist, Serhiy Leshchenko are expected to only boost Zelensky's credibility among voters.
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It is succeeding in fostering its values and teachings by offering its historical context, its tolerance, and involving women in this reform process, thus fostering an opportunity to bring new leadership for teaching good family values and reform minded ideas.
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While the results for the rest of the country are unclear, dozens of individual candidates supportive of the government seem to have gained a strong minority in Parliament, despite the disqualification of thousands of reform-minded candidates by a vetting council.
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A new "Problem Solvers Caucus" has been forged in Congress, and reform-minded groups are mentoring "Future Caucuses" of young leaders from both parties at the state level, bringing them together around important issues and promoting the art of bipartisanship.
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Many reform-minded cancer doctors, particularly Peter Bach of New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, have argued that this encourages hospitals and doctors to use the most expensive drug that will yield the highest fee for them to administer.
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Hu Jia, a well-known dissident, said the release was met with fear and despair in his circle of reform-minded activists, where it was seen as a sign of strengthening resolve in the ruling Communist Party to crush dissent.
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Mr. Harrison, 49, has a reputation as a reform-minded superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department, and has won plaudits for overseeing sweeping changes in police practices required after the Justice Department found widespread civil rights violations and other abuses.
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One of the bleak ironies of what happened in Dallas is that, while the city's police department has a dismal reputation among much of the population, Dallas's police chief, David Brown, is one of the most reform-minded in the country.
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The strike and the government's response prompted the reform-minded chief executive of Petrobras, Pedro Parente, who had won praise for restoring stability to the company, to resign because he said he could no longer help the company and government.
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From the beginning, the debate over how to create new regulations to prevent another financial crisis was one of the most contentious of the past decade, pitting reform-minded Democrats against free market Republicans aided by an army of lobbyists on all sides.
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Why upset the reform-minded Deng Xiaoping by harping on about people like Wei Jingsheng, then serving a 15-year term for his role in the Democracy Wall movement, which had seen protests spread across China and which Deng had crushed in 1979?
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The dramatic announcement of an end to the "state of war" between the neighbors came at the climax of a two-day visit to Eritrea by Ethiopia's reform-minded Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who has led the push for a pacifying of relations.
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A long-term reduction in police shootings doesn't have to depend on federal intervention; reform-minded police chiefs swap strategies, and smaller law enforcement agencies have copied specific language from Philadelphia's use-of-force policy in their own reform efforts, for example.
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With President Muhammadu Buhari out of the country on medical leave for most of 2017, Nigeria saw progress on the domestic front with significant efforts made to stabilize the economy with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who is more reform-minded, at the helm.
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In a nod to a more reform-minded economic agenda under President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who took office in December, the former Soviet republic this month abolished a rule obliging exporters to sell a quarter of their hard currency revenue to the state.
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Then, if the Democrats (or reform-minded Republicans) win enough state legislative races in a combination of Virginia, Minnesota, Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New Hampshire—all states in which this is potentially feasible—NPV could be pushed over the finish line.
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This whiplash approach to federal prison policy reflects the tension between Jared Kushner, the president's reform-minded son-in-law and senior adviser, and Mr. Sessions, a hard-liner whose views on criminal justice were forged at the height of the drug war.
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What's more, the machine is press-ganging nominees even as reform-minded candidates seeking the same entry-level seats at the table, inspired by Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, are being disqualified in droves for falling afoul of complex filing rules.
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The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 affords these reform-minded pharmacies and providers the ability to replace a broken legacy system with a fair and just culture and a model of shared accountability that can actually make such improvements happen.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is challenging Japan's old-boy network in the capital, where she thrashed a ruling party rival to win her post and now aims to lead reform-minded candidates to victory in a city-wide July election.
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Tregub is taking her case to court because she wants it to be known that what happened to her wasn't fair, and she hopes to make it easier for other reform-minded people to do an honest day's work without the threat of being fired.
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The implementation of a national Goods and Services Tax (GST) would not only bolster investor confidence in Asia's third-largest economy, it would also strengthen Modi's image as a reform-minded leader amid criticism that he hasn't done enough during his two-year reign.
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From the beginning, the debate over how to create new regulations to prevent another financial meltdown was one of the most contentious of the past decade, pitting reform-minded Democrats against free-market Republicans and spurred on by an army of lobbyists on all sides.
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In remarks following his victory, Baker told a crowd that he delivered on a promise "to bring fiscal discipline, a reform-minded governing approach, and a commitment to bipartisanship to state government" and would continue to do so in his second term as governor.
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At the same time, Goldberg notes, a lot of the blame for the emergence of Trump lies with party elites who have failed to respond to issues raised by younger, reform-minded conservatives: People like Ramesh Ponnuru, Yuval Levin, Arthur Brooks, Bob Doar et al.
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"Norman had been outspoken that the new head of correction was the wrong choice to lead the correction department," Mr. Rechnitz said, referring to Mr. de Blasio's appointment in 2014 of Joseph Ponte, a reform-minded commissioner, to lead the city's embattled jail system.
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In Boston and Philadelphia, voters sided with reform-minded candidates who promised to discontinue policies that focused on minor offenses as a way to combat major crime, which, critics say, led to the prosecution and incarceration of a disproportionate number of black and Hispanic men.
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In a pivotal assignment from 1958 to 1961, Mr. Chernyaev worked in Prague on the staff of a journal, Problems of Peace and Socialism, where he was deeply affected by his contacts with reform-minded Soviet intellectuals as well as visiting Communists from Western Europe.
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Last year's decision to end a decades-old ban on women driving cars, set to come into effect next month, has been hailed as proof of a new progressive trend in the deeply conservative Muslim country under reform-minded Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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California senator and rumored 2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris announced on Monday that she will endorse Noah Phillips, a reform-minded attorney who has pledged to fight racial inequality and called for police reform in the wake of Clark's death, in the Sacramento County district attorney's race.
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The mass weekend arrests by Saudi Arabia could be due to both the stated purpose of cracking down on corruption and a power grab by the kingdom's young, reform-minded crown prince who may soon take the throne, said Robert Jordan, former U.S. ambassador to the kingdom.
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A group consisting of reform-minded centrists and conservative immigration hawks huddled in the Capitol office of Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanPaul Ryan moving family to Washington Embattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway MORE (R-Wis.) at 5:85033 p.m.
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Given new marching orders from a reform-minded City Council that was swept into office here two years ago, Mountain View is looking to increase its housing stock by as much as 220 percent — including as many as 2000,0003 units in the area around Google's main campus.
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World Briefing A grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a reform-minded cleric who was disqualified last week from running for election to an important clerical council in Iran, received a significant endorsement on Monday from an influential former president, a possible indication that his candidacy might be revived.
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Jeff Flake (R-AZ) noted on Twitter Wednesday, Schumer, then part of a bipartisan group of immigration-reform minded senators known as the "Gang of Eight," actually proposed ending the diversity visa program in 2013 as the senators attempted to push a comprehensive immigration reform measure through Congress.
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" Hensarling said he doesn't believe the clean flood insurance bill can pass the upper chamber, writing to his colleagues and stating that "a handful of reform-minded Senators frustrated with the endless cycle of date changes can use a crowded legislative calendar to push for larger reforms now.
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Across the country, advocacy groups and reform-minded prosecutors have also called for the release of a variety of inmates, including prisoners who can't afford cash bail, those held on probation violations and nonviolent prisoners at greater risk from the virus because of their ages or health status.
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Inside the state, the biggest splash may have come in the primary for Cook County state's attorney, where incumbent Kim Foxx, the leader in a wave of criminal justice-reform minded prosecutors, overcame opposition by police unions and the embarrassing Jussie Smollett case to win another term. Pennsylvania.
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To Western diplomats who have followed Ukraine's turbulent history since it broke free from the Soviet Union in 1991, Mr. Lutsenko was a familiar figure: a seemingly reform-minded politician who, once given power, deeply disappointed his former admirers by displaying many of the ills he had previously denounced.
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If Khodorkovsky — who gradually evolved from a simple billionaire to one of the Russian state's harshest critics, a reform-minded champion of freedom, democracy and openness — is the hero of "Citizen K," spending his money on the human-rights initiative Open Russia, then the movie needs a villain.
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Over the past year, aggressive bond buying by the European Central Bank and encouraging signs of economic growth across Europe have helped the eurozone overcome a series of political jolts, including Britain electing to quit the European Union and Italian voters rejecting the proposals of a reform-minded government.
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"Giuliani was moving towards these guys because he wanted to be useful for his clients, and they meet in the middle, and they decided to combine efforts, to establish this conspiracy," said Serhiy Leshchenko, a reform-minded politician and journalist who was instrumental in publicizing the black ledger.
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Addressing the nation on February 13th, he began by recounting his 50 years of service, from the days in which he led commandos in battle as a young special-forces officer, through his service as Israel's swashbuckling ambassador to the UN and his term as a reform-minded finance minister.
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That's what happened in 2006 with the Jack Abramoff-Tom DeLay lobbying scandal—Democrats romped that November—and back in the 1974 Watergate midterms, when an entire generation of reform-minded lawmakers were swept into power just two years after Richard Nixon won one of the largest electoral landslides ever.
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The key challenge for China is the execution of the proposed financial and economic reforms, now led by a team of experienced and reform-minded individuals put in place by President Xi. Brazil and Russia have recovered from their recent recessions but remain vulnerable to risks at home or abroad.
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Groups that have successfully supported reform-minded prosecutors pushing to end mass incarceration in places like Philadelphia, Chicago and Texas have zeroed in on Los Angeles as the ultimate prize for their movement because of its size — it has the biggest jail system and the largest prosecutors office in the country.
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"Kim Foxx losing the primary election would be a real blow, especially to the local organizers and activists who worked so hard to create the environment that led to a reform-minded prosecutor like Kim Foxx triumphing in 2016," said Taylor Pendergrass, senior campaign strategist for the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Yet Miriam Krinsky, a former federal prosecutor who is now executive director of Fair and Just Prosecution, a national network of reform-minded local prosecutors, said many of the proposals could help undo damage the federal government had done by setting a draconian tone for states on criminal justice policies.
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The reform has been opposed by hardline unions including the Communist-linked CGT, but also by the large, reform-minded CFDT union, which is more interested in securing massive debt relief for the railways and guarantees on basic job conditions when the rail market opens up to foreign firms in years ahead.
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On the other end of the spectrum there's the idea that Flynn and Trump and his crew are actually honest, reform-minded leaders—the problem is the corrupt "deep state" leaking inflammatory information out to a liberal media primed to gleefully publish anything that makes Trump look bad, no matter how sketchy.
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While Iran's traditional media like TV and newspapers, predominately used as mouthpieces for conservative hardliners, still dominate, experts say Telegram — as well as other social media — is transforming the way political campaigns are run while also helping reform-minded Iranians express their thoughts and encourage others like them to get out to vote.
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As the newly-elected district attorney for Brooklyn and the leader of an organization that supports a growing number of reform-minded prosecutors being swept into office in cities like Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Denver and elsewhere – we are putting our experience into action and also turning to the communities we serve for input.
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"Now that moderate sentencing reform is being positioned as a Trump criminal justice bill, it really moves the entire political spectrum on the issue to the left in terms of what reform-minded candidates and progressives should be bringing to the table," said Inimai M. Chettiar, director of the Brennan Center's Justice Program.
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While criminal-justice reform has only recently become a consensus issue among Democrats — and many of them are still less enthusiastic than certain reform-minded Republicans — comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to citizenship for the 11 million unauthorized immigrants currently in the US, has enjoyed unanimous support among Democrats for nearly a decade.
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If the Italian economy was unable to grow under a reform-minded government during a period of a favorable global economic environment, one has to ask why it should be expected to grow in a more challenging global environment and with a government whose economic policies are unlikely to be supported by the markets.
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Wetzel, the nationally-known, reform-minded secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is the lead defendant in a federal lawsuit and injunction request filed three weeks ago by lawyers for Johnson, an intellectually disabled man who allegedly has spent the past 36 years in solitary confinement in the prisons of the Keystone State.
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Reform-minded Zhou, who took the helm of the PBOC in 2002, is credited with loosening interest rate controls, boosting the yuan's global clout and developing new policy tools as Beijing seeks to control risks that have been fueled by past stimulus, which swelled debt loads and encouraged inefficient investment in sectors like steel which already had ample capacity.
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The United States and European countries that have provided aid to Ukraine had long pressed for his dismissal; in his year in office, Mr. Shokin became a symbol of Ukraine's deeply ingrained culture of corruption, failing to prosecute a single member of the deposed Yanukovych regime or of the current government while blocking the efforts of reform-minded deputies.
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So I'm not sure what it says that I (and not a few others in the reform-minded conservative commentariat) now seem to feel more urgency about stopping Trump than the men who actually lead the actual-existing G.O.P. That we enjoy the liberty of punditry rather than wearing the manacles of politics is no doubt part of it.
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Wesley Bell, a reform-minded City Council member from Ferguson, Mo., declared victory in the Democratic primary for St. Louis County prosecutor Tuesday evening, saying he had ousted the longtime incumbent Robert P. McCulloch, who came under national scrutiny for his handling of the investigation into the 2014 shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer.
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His disappearance is straining Turkey-Saudi relations and could complicate Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's recent attempts to recast his government as forward-thinking and reform-minded — as well as his country's close relationship with the US. The 1203-year-old veteran journalist was last seen on October 2 walking into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
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He retains the authority to negotiate peace with Turkey, as he did in 2008 with Mr. Erdogan, then a reform-minded prime minister who became the first Turkish leader to hold secret talks with the P.K.K. With Turkish soft power at its height, Mr. Ocalan, a ruthless egomaniac, giddily imagined a new regional order where Turks and Kurds might prevail.
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The failure to achieve even that cosmetic gesture offers a telling indication of how Hamas is hamstrung by its own deep-seated ambivalence toward reform, said Nathan Thrall, an analyst with the International Crisis Group who is based in Jerusalem, who noted that the original charter has long been a source of quiet embarrassment among more reform-minded Hamas leaders.
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"Although we expect that the Greek government will implement the required measures, the risk of early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament...Early elections might bring a new and more reform-minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth," Moody's said.
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At the same time, said St. Pierre, GW employed the services of reform-minded scholars, writers and lawyers, including celebrated marijuana seed collector David Watson, pioneering cannabis scientist Ethan Russo and marijuana research and policy guru Paul Armentano, who had left his position at NORML in 0003 and later that year did short-term freelance contract work for GW, drafting content for various sections of their website.
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Reform-minded lawmakers are circling around a pared-down proposal that would eliminate the filibuster for spending bills, something House Republicans pushed when Democrats controlled the Senate under former Senate Majority Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason Reid2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Panel: How Biden's gaffes could cost him against Trump MORE (D-Nev.).
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Reform-minded leaders might also address weaknesses in our political culture that helped bring us to this point, such as steps to reduce political polarization; to encourage greater political and civic participation; to reduce the role of big money in campaigns; and to narrow expanding inequalities of income and wealth, which political scientists convincingly argue helped fuel the populism and anti-constitutional tone in 2016.
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Though far from a done deal, the need to relocate the medicines agency, the British withdrawal from the bloc and the recent election of the reform-minded Emmanuel Macron as president of France have created a historic opportunity, said Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, a European lawmaker from Sweden who is the chairwoman of a campaign group called Single Seat, which advocates one venue for the Parliament.
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I concluded this week's Campaign Stops column, written amid near-total Republican disarray, by wondering if reform-minded and populist-friendly conservatives should stop rooting against Donald Trump and hoping for a successful co-optation of the legitimate portions of his message, and instead just accept that the Trump phenomenon is going to carry all before it in this cycle — welcoming it as one part creative destruction, one part judgment issued from on high.
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Carlos CurbeloCarlos Luis CurbeloOvernight Energy: Warren edges past Sanders in poll of climate-focused voters | Carbon tax shows new signs of life | Greens fuming at Trump plans for development at Bears Ears monument Carbon tax shows new signs of life in Congress Democratic lawmaker pushes back on Castro's call to repeal law making illegal border crossings a crime MORE, a reform-minded Florida Republican who's been at the center of the GOP negotiations, said he'll seek changes.
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In Taylor, with the exception of (hold onto your hats) Justice Clarence ThomasClarence ThomasWhat to know about the fight over Trump's tax returns Liberal, conservative Supreme Court justices unite in praising Stevens Overnight Health Care — Sponsored by Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids — Harris walks back support for eliminating private insurance | Missouri abortion clinic to remain open through August | Georgia sued over 'heartbeat' abortion law MORE, the Supreme Court gave all conscientious, sentencing-reform-minded folks – including Judge Dearie – a swift kick in the pants.
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Ben SasseBenjamin (Ben) Eric SasseThe Hill's Morning Report - Sanders takes incoming during intense SC debate Overnight Health Care — Presented by American Health Care Association — Lawmakers raise alarms over Trump coronavirus response | Top official warns virus appears inevitable in US | Democrats block two Senate abortion bills Democrats block two Senate abortion bills MORE (R-Neb.) acknowledged during a December hearing with Horowitz that the inspector general's findings had added credence to concerns raised for years by his more surveillance reform-minded colleagues in the Senate.
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The president's demand is just the latest headache for Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) and his leadership team, who are in delicate negotiations to appease both the reform-minded centrists — whose discharge petition is inching closer to the 2202 signatures it needs to force a vote — and conservative immigration hard-liners vowing to oppose any proposal that would, in their eyes, provide "amnesty" to immigrants in the country illegally.
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