Sentence examples for municipal reforms from inspiring English sources

"We were hoping for municipal reforms and regional elections for years but we got nothing".

After 1900 much attention was given to municipal reforms in Cleveland, Toledo, and other cities and to statewide programs that attempted to alleviate problems caused by industrialization.

In that year he also published The City Government of Philadelphia, a study prepared in collaboration with law partner Edward P. Allinson, which advocated certain municipal reforms.

Nor did Peter's urban legislation provide the townspeople with the incentives and freedom necessary to change them into an entrepreneurial class; as a matter of fact, the municipal reforms were simply means to collect taxes and dues in kind.

It was "a radical program of municipal reforms designed to reshape the social and economic infrastructures of the Austrian capital along socialist lines", writes Eve Blau in The Architecture of Red Vienna.

Recently, New York and Chicago, each a leader in two important municipal reforms — the open data movement and centralized (311) call centers — released requests asking the private sector to help them build a platform more akin to Facebook than 311 as we know it.

The major municipal reform of 2007 transferred power to the municipalities.

Municipal reform remained a concern after he resigned from his party post and went into private law practice.

Under Lesage's administration, the provincial government became more active in the fields of social welfare, municipal reform, and culture.

Suffolk, which was regarded by ministers as a role model for municipal reform, may have abandoned change for now, fearing an electoral backlash.

Interestingly, a municipal reform of the system in mid 2000 led to an increase in enrolment in the BHIS (idem).