successful reform

collocation in English

meaningsofsuccessfulandreform

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successful
adjective
uk
/səkˈses.fəl/
us
/səkˈses.fəl/
achieving the results wanted 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 ofsuccessfulandreformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Andsuccessfulreformis always homegrown.
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Our record demonstrates asuccessfulreformof the taxation of companies, of personal income, of capital, of inheritance, of husbands and wives and of savings.
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The difficulty, the same difficulty that has thwarted anysuccessfulreformin the past, is reaching agreement on what the reform should be.
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The original consultation document on the reform of residential leasehold law regarded the regulation of managing agents as one of the key elements ofsuccessfulreform.
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A vivid example of thesuccessfulreformof the legal framework is the progressive increase of the number of visitors the number reaching 450,000 in 2010 - tripling the 2000 estimate.
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Thirdly, minority presidentialism did not rule out the possibility ofsuccessfulreform.
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That is a most important andsuccessfulreform.
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The author could do more to clarify her assumptions in determining what might count forsuccessfulreformof social life, and what not.
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Successfulreformmay well have required some blurring of perceptions of likely winners and losers at the time of the legislative debate.
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Successfulreformin both cases depended in part on change in the relevant political system and in part on the tactics of the reformers.
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These will be worth significant sums, focused on specific projects crucial tosuccessfulreform.
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If we are to havesuccessfulreform, we shall have to return to that.
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We shall continue to work for asuccessfulreformof the tropical forest action programme.
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He said that on the whole it had been a useful or asuccessfulreform.
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However, asuccessfulreformof financial aid instruments is not everything.
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