Sentence examples for difficulty of reforming from inspiring English sources

The officials admit the difficulty of reforming a deeply corrupt state where oligarchs hold great sway.

My predecessor as Harvard president, Derek Bok, famously compared the difficulty of reforming a curriculum with the difficulty of moving a cemetery.

They are looking for a politics that is honest about the challenges: of fiscal policy, of globalization, of demographic change, of the difficulty of reforming government.

The recent damaging split on the Metro board over the choice of a new chief executive illustrates the difficulty of reforming the rail and bus system, according to area political, civic and business leaders.

The Tea Party movement is central to the conflict that has riven American politics and the difficulty of reforming budgets and immigration laws.Now something similar is happening in Europe (see article).

And it would demonstrate once again where Mr Bush stands in the conservative universe in the optimistic tradition of Ronald Reagan rather than the pessimistic tradition of Mr Tancredo.Nobody should underestimate the difficulty of reforming immigration.

But it doesn't discuss the difficulties of reforming a system that encompasses sixteen per cent of the economy.

This case is designed to illustrate the difficulties of reforming state-owned enterprises in small and poor countries like many of those in sub-Saharan Africa.

The fact that this apparently trivial change provoked a riot illustrates the parlous state of China's education system and the difficulties of reforming it.Since the early 1990s, China's embrace of market forces has upturned the provision of public services.

The difficulties of reforming the company are, arguably, reflected by the fact that although Ms Maier was subjected to a disciplinary hearing, she kept her job as an economic adviser on how to make EDF more efficient.Mr Gadonneix, a former boss of Gaz de France, was appointed chief executive in September 2004.

It encapsulates the difficulties of reforming the French public sector.The strike began as a protest, mostly by production and technical staff, against a cut in the public subsidy and an attempt to control Radio France's deficit, which will reach €21m ($23m) this year.