Sentence examples for to pursue changes from inspiring English sources

But that does not seem to dissuade City Hall from continuing to pursue changes in the law.

Xenophon told Guardian Australia he would attempt to pursue changes that would stop former ministers becoming industry lobbyists immediately after leaving politics.

Mr. Bloomberg also said that he planned to pursue changes to state law that would allow the rapid closing of large detention centers that are mostly empty but fully staffed.

In his address opening the year's legislative session, Mr. Silver said, "Last year we traveled some rough roads together," and he promised to pursue changes sought by some Assembly members, like televising legislative proceedings and trying to overhaul the state's drug laws.

The IRS is empowered and entitled to prosecute U.S. tax frauds and U.S. taxpayers, not to pursue changes in foreign rules and regulations or to threaten foreign financial institutions (unless they commit such frauds).

He said he would prefer to work cooperatively with school district officials, but would be willing to pursue changes in city or state law to expand the mayor's power were he to find his efforts stymied.

It was thought that they would lure the Tamil rebels in the north-east of the country to pursue change through the polling booth rather than the gun.

What is exciting – and what gives me hope – is the willingness we are seeing from all these areas to pursue change.

Analysts said that the parliamentary election on Sunday could reverse the tide if the Liberal Democratic Party wins by a wide enough margin to give Mr. Koizumi a mandate to pursue change.

If you believe in shareholder democracy and in what many of these activists do is press for changes on management and within boards, and they argue that placing higher barriers to ownership would make them less likely, not more, to pursue change.

The Vatican, whose secretive bank has been embroiled in scandals in the past, acknowledged on Wednesday that the reform process would take time but pledged to pursue change in its efforts to present a more modern — and open — image of its guarded financial institutions.