independents reform

基本解释

Mr Windsor says the mining tax should be rethought as part of an overall tax-reform conference that the independents demand for mid-2011.
温莎说，独立议员将在2011中期选举中提出在全体税收改革计划讨论中重新考虑这项采矿税。

It is worrying that the natural home of independents—the Reform Party—is the scene of one of the nastiest power-struggles in American politics.
ECONOMIST: A declaration on independents
The president might have accomplished more had he reached out to the opposition and independents. (For example, health-care legislation notably lacked serious tort reform, a Republican priority.) A president in a similarly partisan environment, Bill Clinton, actually did quite well after learning how to work with Republicans.
ECONOMIST: Reader debate
Then, last December, Mrs Lincoln abruptly found herself in a tight spot, wavering so chronically over health reform that liberals decried her lack of guts, conservatives marked her as vulnerable and independents searched for an alternative.
ECONOMIST: A spirited scramble for suddenly open Democratic seats