Sentence examples for tide of reform from inspiring English sources

"The tide of reform is coming in," he said at an appearance in the White House.

(In what is surely an act of strategic folly, many of these companies are swimming against the tide of reform by mounting a legal challenge to the Dodd-Frank Act).

It marked the end of the king's resistance to the tide of reform, and he made no further open attempts to push back the Revolution.

Baker's quip had no impact as we have faced, and continue to face, a rising tide of reform reports and school bashing.

A rising tide of reform within the party caused Arthur to rename the financial extractions from employees as "voluntary contributions" in 1872, but the concept remained, and the party reaped the benefit of controlling government jobs.

In acknowledging his change of heart he said that the time for trying to stem the tide of reform, an endeavour in which he had long strived, had passed and given "good luck" the extension of the vote would "confer... a great benefit upon every class of the community".

Hugo was not quite a writer-artist in the manner that we associate with Flaubert and James, but he was the big moral writer of his time — a writer who intervened in the world, rowing in and riding the tides of reform.

Steve King, a conservative congressman from Iowa, is trying to figure out some way to use the bombing to stem the tide of immigration reform.

April 14, 1764 Copenhagen, Denmark November 25, 1855 Copenhagen, Denmark Poul Christian Stemann, (born April 14 , 1764 Copenhagen died Nov. 25, 1855, Copenhagen), Danish premier who championed absolute monarchy against the rising tide of liberal reform.

It is too soon to say that there is a tide of electoral reform, but at least some of the continent's leaders appear unwilling to let recent advances go to waste.

His promise partly to undo Mr Sarkozy's rise in the pension age runs against the tide of European reforms.