Sentence examples for far-reaching revision from inspiring English sources

But during a City Planning Commission hearing yesterday on the Giuliani administration's plan to revise much of New York's zoning code, there was strong support for the most far-reaching revision of the city zoning resolution since 1961.

[C3.] The board that writes the professional accounting rules for American businesses voted unanimously to start a far-reaching revision of the rules for reporting pensions and other retirement plans, a project that is sure to be contentious, especially among companies with big retirement plans.

Currently these experts find themselves battling yet another "solution in search of a problem" in the form of a far-reaching revision to the Uniform Commercial Code -- the body of law, mostly common to all 50 states, that governs a broad range of commercial transactions, including the sale of goods.

His fingerprints are all over two recent presidential directives that lay the groundwork for the most far-reaching revision of regulatory policy in 15 years.

This legal egalitarianism would have required a far-reaching revision of existing laws that had distinguished between citizens and non-citizens.

And the city's Campaign Finance Board is concerned that a ban without other far-reaching revisions would prompt corporations to seek other ways of giving that are more difficult to monitor.

But the far-reaching revisions amount to at least a partial acknowledgment of criticisms long leveled by outside researchers who disputed the U.N. portrayal of an ever-expanding global epidemic.

The adequate protection of children against toxic agents in the environment will require fundamental and far-reaching revisions of current approaches to toxicity testing and risk assessment.

But in 1989, voters approved far-reaching charter revisions that dissolved the powerful Board of Estimate, an eight-member panel of borough presidents and citywide officials, and transferred many of its land use and budgetary functions to the Council.

The district held that the measure was "so drastic and far-reaching that it was 'a revision' of the state Constitution and not a mere amendment".

The combination of ongoing technological development and far-reaching regulatory change means that no business model can survive without constant revision and rejuvenation.