modest reform
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodestandreform
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modest
adjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ɪst/us/ˈmɑː.dɪst/
not large in size or amount, or ...
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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 ofmodestandreformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The fact is that this is amodestreformand that they never treated it seriously from the start.
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For all those reasons, it is arguable that such amodestreformcould be self-financing, a proposal that should be susceptible to assessment by research.
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The overwhelming weight of evidence gives no comfort to the opponents of amodestreformof this kind.
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Let us try thismodestreformfor the short period of one year, and see what happens.
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This is a welcome, long overdue,modestreform.
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I am very glad to hear that, because it seems to be a mostmodestreform.
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Therefore, there was no chance in 1958 of going further than that verymodestreform.
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By contrast, we are seeking amodestreformindeed.
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I think that the time has come for somemodestreform.
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But this verymodestreformis so obviously advantageous that of course it will be adopted.
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Its enactment would mean a fairlymodestreform, but it would remove a provision which at the moment seems absurd.
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Amodestreformcould be expeditiously introduced.
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Themodestreformboosted revenues by 25% in the following year, but was still nowhere near enough to cover the gap.
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The regime agreed to immediate but modest reforms focused on the upcoming election.
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Without altering the broad decentralised and horizontal character of its institutional design a range of relatively modest reforms could improve its performance and could be put in place fairly quickly.
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These are modest reforms, but they would all help.
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They introduce some modest reforms which should have been made long ago.
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I hope that we shall adopt, and that the police authorities will implement, the modest reforms in paragraphs 4·27—that police officers make a summary which is recorded.
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He would be extremely lucky if the average family in his constituency were £70 a week better off as a result of the modest reforms that have so far been made.
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More modest reforms were also put into motion in the social sector, particularly in the education and healthcare fields.
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