Example sentences of "[vb pp] at reversing the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If he is beginning to share the public anxiety about standards in our schools , he should be ashamed of himself for having resisted each and every reform that has been aimed at reversing the trend and improving them .
2 The increase was announced by Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley last week at the launch of a campaign aimed at reversing the Drug research
3 The overall economic picture was more gloomy than that set out by the government in November when it first put forward measures aimed at reversing the country 's economic decline [ see pp. 38587-88 ] and what it called the mismanagement by the previous Social Democratic administration .
4 Aimed at reversing the decline since the mid-1970s in PCI membership and electoral support , the creation of the new party was marked by divergences between the traditional left wing and a social democratic tendency .
5 Her election by the Left Alliance 's executive committee was aimed at reversing the decline in electoral support for the 10-party alliance evidenced in the general election of April 1990 [ see p. 37388 ] .
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