"Frankly, if we make a wholesale reform, it could be a step backward," he said.

These severe financial problems led to a wholesale fiscal reform.

Progress towards a more just global order is impossible without wholesale reform of the economic system.

His plan was greeted as a serious starting point, even by advocates of wholesale reform.

Without wholesale reform, growth will slow down to only 1.8 percent in the next decade.

The government were embarking on wholesale reform of the benefit system when the economic crisis struck.

Changes by either national or local government required the commitment of a major political party to the cause of wholesale reform.

What's needed are wholesale reforms that will enrich children, not the boards.

The May decision marked the most significant opportunity anywhere in the country for wholesale reform of poor urban public schools, experts said.

They recommended a wholesale reform of how the board functioned.