ambitious reform
collocation in Englishmeaningsofambitiousandreform
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ambitious
adjective
uk/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/us/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/
having a strong wish to be successful, powerful, ...
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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 ofambitiousandreformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofambitious reform
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This is a coherent andambitiousreform.
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I sincerely believe that we need anambitiousreform.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
A lessambitiousreformmight simply have introduced administrative careers within the mid-level bureaucracy, while leaving the top 10,000 or so positions to presidential discretion.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Despite its tribulations, the gendarmerie was a major late-empire institution, performing a range of tasks in outlying regions as part of the central government'sambitiousreforminitiative.
From theCambridge English Corpus
How can we best encourage the countries to stick to anambitiousreformagenda?
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
This is anambitiousreformwhich should result in more efficient and more transparent management.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Clearly the veryambitiousreformcontained in your paper is going to be a formidable task for the managers you appoint.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
That is the largest ever investment in further education to support a radical andambitiousreformstrategy that links funding to college performance.
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Hansard archive
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Now we have embarked on anambitiousreformof our external assistance programmes, designed to bring a serious improvement in their effectiveness and in their speed of delivery.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
It is no coincidence that the countries in the greatest difficulties are precisely those which have been most reluctant to adoptambitiousreformprogrammes in recent years.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Therefore, extraction of all the possibilities from the existing framework should not stand in the way of a thorough andambitiousreformonce the necessary studies have been carried out.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Ambitiousreformideas often failed, she argued, because of the absence of a government bureaucracy with significant strength and expertise to administer them.
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