He offered his resignation a year ago, citing a lack of civic reform, but Mr. Arafat refused to accept it.

Some Palestinian politicians, including members of Fatah, have called for years for civic reform.

Finally, in 1881, she established a lasting institution, the Friday Morning Club, devoted to cultural and social betterment and civic reform.

Mr. Klebnikov had alighted in Moscow with a spirit of civic reform.

He often spoke out for civic democratic reforms.

Infrastructures first, then economic reform; after which, civic reforms may come.

Mr. Callister wants me to address a congressional committee, on the subject of civic reform.

And people in the camp also are impatient with the snail's pace of Palestinian civic reform and economic development.

Like the St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900, the events were associated with progressive civic reform.

Palestinian officials called the deadlock a crisis that imperiled civic reform and a new international peace plan.