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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a thorough change" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or complete transformation in a particular context, such as a process, system, or behavior.
Example: "The company underwent a thorough change in its management structure to improve efficiency and communication."
Alternatives: "a complete overhaul" or "a significant transformation".
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In 1996, however, Mr Hashimoto himself took office as a supposedly reformist new leader, pledging a thorough change of everything from the bureaucracy to education.
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Metamorphosis entails an abrupt and thorough change in an animal's physiology and biochemistry, with concomitant structural and behavioral modifications.
"We are not allowed to exercise the fundamental rights given to us in the Constitution," he said in May in announcing the formation of a new party, the Reform Party, whose objective, he said, was "a complete and thorough change in the way this country is run".
The answer why not, I fear, is that Labour is too executive-minded, too fearful of investing in parliament as an institution and too fearful of thorough change in the governing system – despite the way it is being subverted and shrunk by the Cameron government.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, in his own press conference, talked about the need for a thorough "cultural change".
Moreover, the long-held notion that Weill underwent a thorough style change when he arrived in the United States in 1935 has been largely, if not completely, discredited.
Old ideology, in the meantime, stays alive in mundane legal regulation that resists more thorough change and determines our plumbing.
The new leadership's "unwavering determination" to see thorough change, backed by new resources and the acknowledgment of past weaknesses, was praised in its report.
(2) If more than 5%% of spare parts stock out of the total amount of equipments cannot meet the operational needs during the guarantee period of quality, it indicates that the manufacturing facility has existing flaw in the design of the equipment which leads to the high fault rate and therefore needs to implement thorough change in design.
"Reaching a political settlement will require some fairly thorough changes in the way Haiti is governed," America's State Department said on February 10th.
Richard A. Boucher, the State Department spokesman, said Tuesday that "reaching a political settlement will require some fairly thorough changes in the way Haiti is governed, and how the security situation is maintained".
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