Sentence examples for * the root and branch from inspiring English sources

The media secretary said she would have hoped the root and branch review of the BBC's governance could be completed more quickly but she was glad it was being "taken seriously".

Until Mr Blatter goes there can be no real progress on the root and branch reform of the whole governing superstructure of world football that is so urgently required to begin the process of rebuilding trust and confidence.

It's time he was given a chance to prove that he can live up to his own hubris GGrandsGarcons I think this appointment confirms what we all already knew - we're not really interested in the root and branch overhaul to the game that would be required to consistently produce an effective national side.

As part of the root and branch governance reform project that [IAAF president] Sebastian Coe has announced, there will be new processes introduced to ensure all persons appointed to IAAF commissions and advisory groups in the future have been duly vetted and declared as 'fit and proper persons' to hold office.

Their efforts led Vane to introduce the Root and Branch Bill in May 1641.

In the Root and Branch petition debate in the Commons, from December 1640 and into 1641, Vane supported, as did Nathaniel Fiennes, the call for radical reforms in the Church of England, a position that put Vane in opposition to his father.

Initial results on the field were indifferent, although the root-and-branch reform of the technical side of US Soccer that Klinsmann was also charged with got under way immediately and the results began to follow (away wins in Mexico and Italy stand out).

He blames successive secretaries of state, including the present one, for having ignored the root-and-branch reform which he believes the department needs even more urgently than the UN.

Indeed, it is very hard to see anything radical coming out of the election of a new pope, let alone the root-and-branch reform of the Curia which so many are now asking for.

Not disastrous, perhaps, but certainly demoralising and largely the result of the Berlusconi government's timidity over introducing the root-and-branch structural reforms that Italy so badly needs.However, as the OECD also argued, although there are things wrong with next year's budget, the tax cuts are not among them.

After the failure of the Root and Branch Bill, Parliament in 1643 called together the Westminster Assembly of Divines, a body of lay politicians, lords, and clergy whose purpose was to reform church governance.