Sentence examples for steps of reform from inspiring English sources

Saudi Arabia has taken the first steps of reform.

The latest protests occurred a day after Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates stopped in Bahrain and warned the Khalifa family, which has ruled Bahrain for two centuries, that it must go beyond the "baby steps" of reform to meet the economic and political demands sweeping much of the Arab world.

"We are prepared to match positive steps of reform in Burma with steps of our own," the US State Department spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, told reporters in Washington.

With the first steps of reform going well, Deng was in a very good and relaxed mood.

"We did the final big step of reform last year before the expansion," Mr. Fischler said.

"Opponents call this initiative an American one, as if every step of reform should come through instructions from abroad," Mr. Zaqzouq said dismissively.

In the next step of reform, performance evaluation will need to be strengthened further, and the proportion of pay that is performance-based should be increased.

Another reason to step up the pace of reform is that the flood of taxpayers' money will shortly dwindle to a trickle.

India's leaders claim to want to step up the pace of reform, and have done so in a modest way.

However, until Mr. Xi outlines specific, incremental steps of structural reform -- intra-party checks and balances, independent commercial courts, urban residency reform, rural land-ownership reform, further strengthening of the welfare net and other institutional mechanism to safeguard the economic interests of individuals -- consumer confidence will wane.

Richard J. Codey signed a law last Tuesday to bring back New Jersey's Department of the Public Advocate, a move he billed as the latest in a series of steps to reform state government before he leaves office at the end of the year.