Sentence examples for minimal reforms from inspiring English sources

"The extraordinary thing is that we have a group of revolutionary socialists who didn't believe in democracy, then turned themselves into expert vote-seekers but eventually do only minimal reforms to the system," he said.

But the EU has been accused of attempting to divide opposition in the developing world to the CAP in the hope that this will allow it to get minimal reforms through the WTO.

Mr Clegg's problem this morning is two-fold: the offer under discussion is from the Conservatives, and the proposed solution to the PR conundrum – an airy promise of an all-party inquiry into the electoral system – looks suspiciously like "the most minimal reforms" he dismissed just a month ago.

A month after the Liberal Democrat leader used his last appearance at Prime Minister's Questions to complain that both main parties were blocking "the most minimal reforms to our electoral system", he has the chance to punish them for their intransigence.

"When a European says something is 'inevitable,' he means: 'I don't need to do anything about it because it's going to happen anyway".' "I think Bosnia is in for more drift and floundering," Mr. Serwer added, referring to the lack of unity and outside push for even "minimal" reforms in the state.

He also reckons the euro-zone bail-outs of the past four years have created moral hazard, allowing feckless Mediterranean countries to get away with minimal reforms and only limited fiscal discipline.Mr Sinn is particularly obsessed with Target 2 (the first German version of his book was called "The Target Trap") liabilities, which refer to the accounts of national central banks with the ECB.

Mr. Paterson, a Democrat, has said the bill amounted to little more than minimal reform.

And even that minimal reform would not have waited until the 9/11 commission was virtually on the city's doorstep.

How is it that we have come to accept that giant multinationals are able to avoid paying tax, that banking and financial services can carry on as before with only minimal reform, and the only answer is austerity?

This might well be regarded as the minimal reform option and which could leave the UK's supreme court in a similar position to, for example, the German constitutional court, which already has the last word in human rights cases instead of Strasbourg.

Most founding members had been educated in Britain, and were content with the minimal reform efforts being made by the government.