root-and-branch

He's promised root-and-branch change, from foreign policy to Camp X-Ray to universal Healthcare.

Archive 2009-01-01 Dungeekin 2009

After their devastating defeat in the Ashes a year ago, which included three innings defeats, Australia commissioned a root-and-branch examination of everything from the structure of the selection panel to the culture of the team to the quality of domestic league cricket.

A Glimpse of the Australia of Old Richard Lord 2012

The time has come for parliament to undertake root-and-branch reform of Britain's surveillance powers and provide genuinely effective safeguards against abuse.

Law against phone hacking is not working, says civil liberties group 2011

He's promised root-and-branch change, from foreign policy to Camp X-Ray to universal Healthcare.

The Weight of Expectation Dungeekin 2009

The charity Inquest said the abolition would render completely hollow the government's root-and-branch reform of the inquest system.

Quango cut: Controversy over scrapping of Youth Justice Board Alan Travis 2010

The point is that there is no longer any alternative to root-and-branch fiscal reform.

April Is the Cruelest Month for Purveyors of High Culture Terry Teachout 2011

The Labour leader showed his determination to learn the lessons of Labour's defeat by launching a root-and-branch review of the Scottish Labour party.

Shadow culture secretary withdraws Labour 'spendthrift' claim 2011

When England, cock-a-hoop after their success in the 2005 Ashes, went to Australia for the rematch and were ritually humiliated to the tune of a whitewash, the response of the England and Wales Cricket Board was to commission the Schofield Report, the essence of which recommended root-and-branch restructuring of the way England approached touring, preparation, selection, fitness, the lot.

India's board counts the cost of complacency as status dwindles | Mike Selvey 2011

We need an entire root-and-branch reshaping of our economy and society – where both rewards and punishments are judicious, proportional and deserved, and all within a revived and larger understanding of fairness.

UK riots: Our wounded nation will not be healed by vengeful gestures | Will Hutton and Henry Porter 2011

Last Thursday the government discarded the promised root-and-branch reform of the inquest system, adding that the post of chief coroner for England and Wales was to be abolished.

Terrorism: 7/7 inquest proves value of a system of independent scrutiny Mark Townsend 2010