Sentence examples for desperately needed reform from inspiring English sources

The latest example concerns a desperately needed reform to liberalise Mexico's declining state-owned oil industry, opposed by Mr López Obrador.

In the case of Tom Daschle, the intended health secretary, his withdrawal has further complicated the desperately tricky but desperately needed reform of the US health-care system.

Even before Congress paused this week to honor George H.W. Bush, time was running out to pass a desperately needed reform of the criminal justice system.

We should, however, consider the possibility that these moves, along with a State Council announcement on June 19 of a package of financial reform proposals, are part of a larger plan to lay the groundwork for the painful and desperately needed reform proposals reportedly up for approval at the Third Plenum of the 18th Party Congress that is expected to meet in October.

Blair asserted that the community's common agricultural policy desperately needed reform so that more of the EU budget would go to support training and industries of the future rather than to prop up unproductive farmers through overly generous farm support and export subsidies.

By engaging both morality and the nation's and the research enterprise's own long-term self-interest, perhaps ACS can succeed in sparking desperately needed reform.

These are all good, and desperately needed, reforms.

Mr. Morsi, a religious conservative, will assume office dogged by serious questions about his commitment to desperately needed reforms.

EARLY LAST YEAR the Pakistan Business Council, a lobby group of local conglomerates and multinationals, drew up a "national economic agenda", setting out some desperately needed reforms.

Desperately needed reforms were thwarted, opportunities lost — and it was more than a sexual scandal that made Mr. Spitzer's truncated governorship an exceptional debacle in a capital city that is debacle central.

Indeed, a lot of foreign aid has been counterproductive, discouraging authoritarian and socialist states from adopting desperately needed reforms.