comprehensive reform
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcomprehensiveandreform
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comprehensive
adjective
uk/ˌkɒm.prɪˈhen.sɪv/us/ˌkɑːm.prəˈhen.sɪv/
complete and including everything that ...
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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 ofcomprehensiveandreformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We want singlecomprehensivereform.
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It is tempting to view the commission's composition as evidence that national policymakers were not serious aboutcomprehensivereform.
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We discussedcomprehensivereformin 1948.
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This will provide acomprehensivereformof our patent law.
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I for one would like to see acomprehensivereform.
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They are why we insist on thoroughgoing andcomprehensivereform.
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Again the case forcomprehensivereformis undoubted and incontrovertible.
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This way, the scope forcomprehensivereformdecisions is additionally reduced, given the need for compromise and bargaining between the governing parties.
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That is, of course, almost the mostcomprehensivereformof the lot.
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A morecomprehensivereformis necessary, however, because this is not just an issue of money.
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With anycomprehensivereform, there are some winners and some losers—that is inevitable.
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We have not achieved the kind ofcomprehensivereformwhich was at one stage envisaged.
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Of course, we could, and should, have hadcomprehensivereformin one go.
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He has linked that with acomprehensivereformof higher rates.
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Indeed, there can be no change withoutcomprehensivereformof the structures and apparatus of administration.
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There must be a fundamental,comprehensivereformof the common agricultural policy.
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It was the mostcomprehensivereformof the system ever introduced.
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I know the difficulties involved, but we should have dealt with acomprehensivereformpackage.
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Licensees have now despaired ofcomprehensivereformand have set their sights much lower.
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Cheh has authored severalcomprehensivereformmeasures.
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If successive liberal governments failed to pass acomprehensivereformof local government, it was not for want of concern, but precisely because so many diffuse interests were at stake.
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For while provincial developments and parliamentary politics were increasing the pressures for action, the outcomes of past political struggles were creating an environment far less hospitable tocomprehensivereform.
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It has called forcomprehensivereformof policies and institutions affecting the labour markets in continental economies.
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I hope that it will be possible to get acomprehensivereformof the divorce laws before very long.
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