"advance reform" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you wish to express that an action or change is progressing or taking place. For example, "The government is taking steps to advance reform in the education system."
But given the fraught political environment, the proposals seem a pragmatic way to advance reform.
But outsiders can do little to advance reform in Russia except through personal interaction and Internet communication.
But if Mr Schröder and Ms Merkel aren't excited, it is also because both see a longer-term mission to advance reform in the teeth of public scepticism.
He said his efforts to advance reform of the UN "were about as quixotic and unproductive as anything I have ever tried to do".
Eventually, in April 2008, he became prime minister in the unity government that lets Mr Kibaki sit tight as president.Since then, the 65-year-old Mr Odinga has failed to advance reform, on either the economic or the political front.
The contrast underlines an unfortunate contradiction in the president's drug policy: for all his willingness to advance reform at home, he has done little to confront grave abuses carried out overseas in the name of the "war on drugs".
Those posts were soon deleted and Xinhua, the official news agency, reported that the government would only "advance reforms" this year.
As the industry and regulators work to advance reforms, your readers should know that many of the risks mentioned in the article are being addressed.
We believe that when parents increase their earnings, their families should always be better off, so we have worked with a number of states to advance reforms to phase out subsidies more gradually as earnings increase.
In the months since the Chinese government issued a cryptic statement through the state news media, saying it would "advance reforms" of re-education through labor, legal experts have seen increasing signs that the system is on the way out.
Without Mr. Bratton at the helm, Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, may find himself under more pressure to advance reforms, which many advocates say have stalled, and less insulated from criticism on law enforcement issues.
