He said reforms championed by the mayor had helped to increase graduation rates.

On 21 July 2008, Parliament passed constitutional reforms championed by President Nicolas Sarkozy by a margin of two votes.

Leading news publications, including some that helped bring down the Soviet dictatorship, are being forced to curtail operations because of skyrocketing printing costs under free-market reforms now being championed philosophically in newspapers.

They were generally eliminated in the 1870s with the success of reforms championed by British MP Samuel Plimsoll.

The reforms championed by Senators Lieberman and Collins require new rules to enhance competition in contracting and impose limits on particularly troublesome contracts such as sole source contracts and non-competitive contracts.

His later career was marked by a longstanding dispute with Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Fisher, over reforms championed by Fisher introducing new technology and sweeping away traditional practices.

Yoginder Alagh, a former Union Minister and Sengupta's longtime colleague and friend, said that the reforms championed by Sengupta at the time "were our own, not big bang IMF/World Bank reform initiatives."

With Russian politics fragmented and the electorate in a surly mood, anything seems possible, from reaffirmation to repudiation of the economic and political reforms fitfully championed by President Boris Yeltsin.

CHINA'S official press, a Marxist stronghold since the 1989 Peking massacre, has been ordered to give full support to the cause of bolder, faster reform championed by the nation's elder statesman, Deng Xiaoping.

Under the reform championed by Bill Bradley, which passed in 1986, the corporate rate dropped from 48 percent to 34 percent.