Sentence examples for made at reform from inspiring English sources

Attempts have been made at reform.

A number of half-hearted attempts were made at reform during the war and in its immediate aftermath, but with little effect.

And despite the hand-wringing that occurs at the upper echelons of the Communist Party over incidents like Deng's death — not because someone died, of course, but because such things come perilously close to threatening the Party's legitimacy — there has been little effort made at substantive reform.

Only the other day Wada announced that it was going to take the recommendations made at a recent reform summit "to the foundation board meeting; at which the process towards a 'roadmap' for the anti-doping system will be drawn up".

Although the United States has made efforts at reform, the group said it remained "extremely concerned" about the human rights situation of African-Americans.

It was clear that many who voted in favour of the motion proposing the reforms, made at a special general meeting at the Co-op's Manchester HQ, did so in the belief that they had been drafted, to quote the group's respected former chief executive, Sir Graham Melmoth, with some degree of "wriggle room".

Pledges of economic and financial reforms made at separate international donor conferences during the 2000s have mostly gone unfulfilled, including those made during the Paris III Donor Conference in 2007 following the July 2006 war.

As the Catholic Church in Europe copes with an outbreak of abuse cases, the American bishops say reforms they made at the height of their scandal in 2002 are working.

It has been the fate of one French government after another to make stabs at reform and then, in effect, to be forced to accept the veto of the street, even when that veto was essentially the act of smaller, self-interested groups, hardly expressing a majority view.

Any decisions need to be made at the right time, with regulatory reform happening in tandem".

Leaders will congratulate themselves on the promises of market liberalisation and structural reform that they made at their previous summit, in Lisbon, three months ago.