Sentence examples for useful reforms from inspiring English sources

So Mr Fazio used all his influence to brush these useful reforms away or to water them down.

Quieter but useful reforms are being made to criminal justice.

First, the report spurs countries to useful reforms.

Useful reforms have been suggested, from better financial management systems to more stringent lobbying laws.

Since then, it has set in motion some useful reforms from which its predecessor shrank.

Useful reforms followed, including more authority and independence for the Civilian Complaint Review Board to investigate charges against the police.

As for panaceas they sometimes achieve useful reform, sometimes unexpected consequences, benign or otherwise.

His third ministry, formed in May 1906, was marked by useful reform and concessions to the church on education; and he resigned while still powerful (December 1909).

Christine Lagarde, the finance minister, has cut the 2011 forecast for GDP growth from 2.5% to 2%.Mr Sarkozy can point to a good deal of useful reform on his watch.

A day after the debt deal, Senate leaders reached a sort of pact on moving the free-trade agreements forward.Round the country, too, there are gleams of useful reform.

There was, in no particular order, a drive to extend academy schools, only slightly diluted since the budget, hot-headed measures on terrorism, including a return of the snooper's charter and a plan to criminalise "extremism" before making clear what it means, a useful reform of adoption (a personal passion of the justice secretary) and then the centrepiece – his very own prison reforms.