sensible reform

collocation in English

meaningsofsensibleandreform

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sensible
adjective
uk
/ˈsen.sə.bəl/us
/ˈsen.sə.bəl/
based on or acting on good judgment and practical ideas ...
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reform
noun[C or U]
uk
/rɪˈfɔːm/us
/rɪˈfɔːrm/
an improvement, especially in a person's behaviour or in the structure ...
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(Definition ofsensibleandreformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The rub here is that a strong constituency for asensiblereformprogramme has yet to emerge.
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The first of these is the question of committal proceedings, and this seems to me to be a most valuable andsensiblereform.
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In summary, this clause, with the two minor amendments, will put in place asensiblereformof an outdated duty system.
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It will give magistrates national jurisdiction for the first time, which is asensiblereform.
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We are allowing health authorities to merge—a perfectlysensiblereform.
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Still, it cannot be a valid objection to asensiblereformpackage that it is not perfect.
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That is a verysensiblereformwhich will help women to reconcile the competing pressures of children and work.
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I shall propose a constructive programme ofsensiblereform.
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At any rate, there was no encouragement whatever to go on with what seemed to me to be a verysensiblereform.
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This has turned out to be a most humane andsensiblereform.
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That can be achieved only withsensiblereformof trade union law.
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An opportunity forsensiblereformhas been missed.
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We shall win much more public respect if we agree to this very modest andsensiblereform.
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None of this means that we should opposesensiblereform.
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I was saying that good government is about pursuingsensiblereform.
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I believe that it is asensiblereformwhich will remove the distortion regarding the current situation.
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Some kinds ofsensiblereform, which are otherwise perfectly desirable, may have unintended, adverse and dramatic consequences.
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We should stop the self-governing hospitals dead in their tracks and make the district health authorities into trusts, which would be asensiblereform.
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Thatsensiblereformwill make for more effective government.
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It is probably only from that source that we shall get some new thinking and somesensiblereform.
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