Sentence examples for general reforms from inspiring English sources

In general, reforms have attempted to grant greater autonomy to management, to impose financial discipline, to encourage firms to merge and restructure, and to expose them to competition.Fine in theoryThese are all sensible aims.

Nor was there a general reform of the republic.

With state elections looming, Mr. Hüfner said, "he must now turn the general reform climate into votes.

In 1956, as part of a general reform of the legal and judicial system, the national ministry was abol ished.

Many examples of exertion of the same kind of pressure can be found in the legislative history of the 1976 general reform of the Copyright Act.

The most general reform movement (desarrollista) simply accepted the idea of achieving change through "modernization," in order to make the system more efficient.

In 1998 the Law Commission recommended general reform of the bribery laws, but a draft bill in 2003 failed to win broad support in pre-legislative scrutiny.

The leading proponent of the general reform of the church, Pope Gregory VII (1073 85), demanded liturgical uniformity by requiring the acceptance of the Roman liturgy in place of the native Mozarabic rite that dated to earliest times.

However, e-government as it is most commonly understood today emerged as an agenda for general reform of the public sectors of liberal democratic political systems during the early 1990s.

The new government, elected last year, has appointed an energetic head of the previously discredited Anti-Corruption Commission, Abdul Tejan-Cole, so there is some hope that he, along with a more general reform of the public service, will make government more honest and efficient.

"The attorney general reformed the use of the state secrets privilege to guarantee it is only invoked when absolutely necessary, and never to cover up government wrongdoing," Mr. Miller said.