How To Use Reformer In A Sentence
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Outrages like the Thomas case make it a good deal more difficult for enlightened penal reformers like the Professor to get a fair hearing when they advocate bringing back the lash.
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The Protestant Reformers defined the Roman doctrine of Works as a form of barter system, whereby believers could accrue spiritual benefits for themselves and salvation through their performance.
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The two delegates approached the supreme leader on several occasions trying to beg mercy for their fellow reformers.
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And the man who goes out to do good works, whether he is a social reformer or a missionary, is just like the politician in his concern with the world.
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Municipal legislatures appeared especially prone to corruption, and consequently reformers proposed a shift in authority from the board of aldermen or city council to the mayor.
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This latest round of cultural subversion fatally compromised Wall Street's ability to hold its own against New Deal reformers.
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Nevertheless, Hayes had a reputation as a civil-service reformer, so he fought the oligarchs.
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Padre Amaro, the young saving grace reformer, is in actuality a power mad vacuum, able to use a nubile young woman to satisfy his carnal desires as he finks on those within his order who would do the same.
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They would have been remembered not as forward-thinking reformers - but as mindless cultural vandals.
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Under Deng Xiaoping, the reformers slowly regained control of the country.
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These figures underline the ineffectiveness of prison as a deterrent and a reformer.
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Welfare reformers have imagined that in forcing people to work, a demeaning chapter would close in their lives.
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Often these prophets saw themselves as reformers, who had a vocation to transform the religious vision of their time.
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This places Durkheim in the company of social reformers as diverse as Will Keith Kellogg, conceiver of the cornflake, and Mies van der Rohe, builder of the Bauhaus, both of whom founded institutions on a mission to integrate the individual within a collective plan where its energies could be rationally ordered and to avoid social disintegration.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
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Analogies with the slave trade and slavery and the movement against them were apparent to such reformers.
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Luckily, prison reformers need not be alarmed.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is the point of attack for radical social reformers.
Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
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He says reformers argue that it would not entail the demise of the established church.
Times, Sunday Times
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He might be a Father to Confederation, but like all Reformers, he was intent on destroying the offspring, was a hot-headed revolutionary, a brawler and corruptionist.
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For reformers all along the rhetorical spectrum, red-light districts were the strongholds of organized vice.
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Hans Nielsen Hauge was a reformer in nineteenth-century Norway when the state church there was getting pretty moribund.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
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If this is not the case, then the bureaucratic apparatus triumphs again, and the political leaders and reformers lose.
Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
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They claim that Judaism was the growth of the post-exilic period, but we reformers interpret the term Judaism altogether differently.
The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915
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And first, I am very sensible how much the gentlemen of wit and pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choked at the sight of so many daggle-tailed parsons that happen to fall in their way, and offend their eyes; but at the same time, these wise reformers do not consider what an advantage and felicity it is for great wits to be always provided with objects of scorn and contempt, in order to exercise and improve their talents, and divert their spleen from falling on each other, or on themselves, especially when all this may be done without the least imaginable danger to their persons.
An Argument against Abolishing Christianity
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The reformers were very divided in their aims, which ranged from modest franchise reform to universal manhood suffrage.
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From the beginning, the Protestant Reformers looked with disfavor on the contemplative life and on the quality of mystery that they designated ‘otherworldly.’
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Masonry reverences all the great reformers.
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We have to give credit to the young generation of education "reformers" for a political game as dirty as that of the cagiest old veteran hatchet men.
John Thompson: It Is Time for Charter and Neighborhood School Teachers to Unite
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He also risks squandering his opportunity to be remembered as a genuine reformer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The coachman hates the automobile, the hand-worker hates the machine, the orthodox preacher hates the heretic, the politician hates the reformer, the doctor hates the bacteriologist and the chemist, the old woman hates the new -- all these in varying proportions according to the degree in which the iconoclast attacks laziness or livelihood.
The Price She Paid.
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But this did not stop the government from blaming him and his fellow reformers for the industrial unrest.
The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
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He speaks not for an educational establishment too often bound by its own inertia, but for a generation of reformers whose work is bearing fruit.
Times, Sunday Times
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People like the Victorian reformer John Ruskin argued that the working classes should be included in education, so that all could appreciate the wonders of human intellectual endeavour.
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So far, every time the reformers have tried to open up the system, the hardliners have closed it back down.
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The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him.
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When Pennsylvania's Constitution was revised in 1838 to disfranchise free black men in the name of expanding white manhood suffrage, young black male reformers leapt forward to challenge it.
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He wants to go down in history as a social reformer.
The Sun
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The work of the reformer inevitably degenerates into the mere strenuosity of the campaign,
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
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Feminist reformers also challenged coverture by invoking equality.
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The reformers were charged with placing an abstract moralism above the discipline of the historical and present reality of slavery.
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The zeal of the Scottish reformers was at its height, and this zeal found vent in many a pasquil discharged at Popery.
A Book of Old Ballads — Complete
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Reformers of the sixteenth century, partly followed by the Baianist and Jansenist school, so minimized the native power and moral value of our free will as to make final perseverance depend on God alone, while their pretended fiducial faith and inadmissibility of grace led to the conclusion that we can, in this world, have absolute certainty of our final perseverance.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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He was known as a radical reformer/thinker/politician.
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Their accuracy will be virtually unverifiable but will shape our perceptions as to the balance of interests and influences at work in the universal Church between reformers and conservatives - and between the First and Third Worlds.
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We will start by looking at each Reformer's Eucharistic theology in particular, and then we will turn to the Reformers' views of Christ's humanity and their debate over "flesh" and "spirit.
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The important issue for reformers was the creation of a national, comprehensive system offering guidance, placement, and after-care.
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The mayor was criticized by radical reformers for his indecisiveness.
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It sounds like a trendy catchphrase beloved of prison reformers that means little in practice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Throughout American history, reformers and radicals have addressed social problems through civil disobedience and non-violent resistance.
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The typical establishment, with “the floor filled with peanut shells and spilt beer; the air saturated with tobacco smoke,” was correctly described by moral reformers as a gateway to sexual misbehavior.
A Renegade History of the United States
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The memorial halls and gardens of the Babaoshan crematorium in the grey suburbs of Beijing are the scene of a curious game of funereal politics this weekend as China mourns a lost reformer and the Communist party tries to forget him.
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For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to be in politics, but should become a reformer, if he has what it takes!
Think Progress » BREAKING: Military Will Request $100B For Iraq Next Year, Murtha Reveals
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Their language contrasted with that of the eighteenth-century reformers who had entrusted the mission of modernity and progress to enlightened rulers.
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A second illustration: -- Did Curio, the 'quondam' patriot, reformer, and semi-revolutionist, abjure his opinion, and yell the foremost in the hunt of persecution against his old friends and fellow-philosophists, with a cold clear predetermination, formed at one moment, of making
Literary Remains, Volume 1
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When Pope John XXIII condemned the Bohemian Reformer John Hus to the flames as a heretic, at the Council of Constance in 1415, he also anathematised the Englishman John Wyclif.
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He rarely bucked or challenged the corrupt status quo - in stark contrast to his image as a reformer.
Times, Sunday Times
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He propagated ideas and emphases which departed from the biblical tradition established by the Reformers and Puritans.
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These men were the progressives and social reformers of their day.
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At around this same time, other liberal Puritans were discovering via English Unitarian intermediaries and adopting as their own the antitrinitarian Christology and quasi-Pelagian soteriology of the radical Reformers.
Philocrites: The UU gospel according to Fausto.
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They argue that the problem does not exist, or has been grossly exaggerated, and they call the reformers alarmists, fanatics, scaremongers, prophets of doom and so on.
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The ironic echoic utterances examined here convey, in their own unusual way, many of the common charges made against the late twelfth-century reformers and the Cistercian order in particular.
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He also risks squandering his opportunity to be remembered as a genuine reformer.
Times, Sunday Times
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One could go on, but the important lesson to remember for would-be reformers is that in their zeal to cull waste and limit the scope of the federal government, they don't get caught up being "penny-wise, pound-foolish.
Edward Flattau: Frivolous Pork
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It unites clerics and revolutionaries, monks and social reformers.
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Timing may work against the reformers.
Times, Sunday Times
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This discovery was shared with government reformers, prompting the enactment of formal accountability mechanisms, including regular audits of budget allocations.
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Born in 1856, he became a radical social reformer who preached the adage of ‘one caste, one God and one religion for all men’.
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Social reformers believed that carefully designed settlements would curb many of these excesses, help to civilise the navvy and improve his work rate.
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Female saints were also represented as visionaries, martyrs, and reformers.
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Reformers do not want to redefine marriage.
Times, Sunday Times
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He says reformers argue that it would not entail the demise of the established church.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the great social reformer Lord Shaftesbury visited one house, he went into the cellar - where a family was living - and found that the sewage from a nearby cesspit had leaked right under their floor boards.
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About the year 1639, the New-English reformers, considering that their churches enjoyed the other ordinances of Heaven in their scriptural purity were willing that the 'The singing of Psalms' should be restored among them unto a share of that _purity_.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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The never ending power struggles between the hardliners and reformers certainly does not help to cool their heads.
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Housing reformers preferred to rehouse workers in the suburbs, but the cost of transport to and from work was beyond many families' incomes.
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Acharya Vinoba Bhave, a keen Gandhian and social reformer, convinced the dacoits terrorising the Chambal ravines to give up arms in 1960, signifying the victory of non-violence.
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This has not consisted simply of middle-class reformers defining the working-class family as problematic, for which there is a long tradition.
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The reformer's fame spread all over the country.
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The reformers reacted against the clerical abuse of power, and rightly so.
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Likewise, in Communist China soon after Mao Zedong died in 1976, reformers began to lead the party.
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He probably dreams of being elected as a consolidator in order to govern as a reformer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The early Reformers probably realized this but they felt the necessity of building up some sort of a Church which could bind together its members into a corporate body professing unity of belief and worship, and which, in contrast with the pope's Church, which they called apostate, could be called the true Church of God.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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Prison governors, penal reformers and lawyers have been critical of the number of rioters and looters being sent to already overcrowded jails.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, it is mostly as an essayist and letter writer that she excelled and put to effective use her fiery spirit as a rebel, social activist and reformer.
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If he had done his homework he would have known that Governor Paiin was a reformer, was elected Governor of Alaska with massive support from independents, and had governed pragmatically from the centre, with broad cross-party support.
Powell calls Palin a 'fascinating figure'
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Look at the great social reformers of the victorian times and subsequently -- right up until the 1960s when the whole downslide into mass "higher education" in bonkers areas began.
Speaking of interviews ...
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So far, every time the reformers have tried to open up the system, the hardliners have closed it back down.
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He also risks squandering his opportunity to be remembered as a genuine reformer.
Times, Sunday Times
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He speaks not for an educational establishment too often bound by its own inertia, but for a generation of reformers whose work is bearing fruit.
Times, Sunday Times
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The reformers proposed to amend mayoral elections so that the assembly would nominate two jurats, from whom mayor and jurats would select one for the following year's mayor.
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The dissolution of the Jesuits also gave impetus to reformers in Charles III's Spain, where secondary schools, such as the Madrid seminary of the nobility, were created to educate the hidalgos.
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It loses our high position as moral reformers; it subjects us to all that malignant opposition and suspicion of motives which attend the array of parties; and while thus closing up our access to the national conscience, it wastes in fruitless caucussing and party tactics, the time and the effort which should have been directed to efficient agitation.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4
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In the 1880s, the journalist and social reformer Jacob Riis noticed that the “young people in Jewtown the Lower East Side are inordinately fond of dancing.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what man has made; a renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which embosoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, and with every pulsation a new life?
III. Essays. Man the Reformer. A Lecture Read before the Mechanics Apprentices’ Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841
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He barreled into office last fall and immediately drove reformers and critics to the brink of apoplexy with his abrasive time-to-get-tough rhetoric and his vows to wage ruthless war on gangs.
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He had the ethical bee in his bonnet and was a reformer of no mean pretension, though his work had been mainly in the line of contributions to the heavier reviews and quarterlies and to the publication over his name of brightly, cleverly written books on the working classes and the slum-dwellers.
The Benefit of the Doubt
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Throughout our nation's history, radicals and reformers have viewed their movements as profoundly patriotic.
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Tymoshenko is the most dynamic, and won a reputation as a reformer as energy minister.
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Still, when the outcome was finally confirmed, reformers had swept the board.
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In other ages he would have been canonized as a saint or called the beatific doctor; but in Boston he was a heretic and a reformer, who sought to lead men into a faith that is ethical, sincere, and humanitarian.
Unitarianism in America
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Next to the lute is an open hymn book, identifiable as the work of the great religious reformer Martin Luther.
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When all of our great educational reformers, those beacons of light in the cesspools known as public schools, have learned that the only way students can learn is for each teacher to follow the same script word for word, how can we tolerate these so-called educators who believe they have to abandon the script and try something new when the script is not working with the majority of our students?
Randy Turner: The Time for Term Limits for Teachers Is Now
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These are illustrations of a difficulty all reformers faced in the early part of the nineteenth century.
DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
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Calvinism---Strict theological doctrine of the French Protestant church reformer John Calvin (1509-1564) and the basis of Puritan society.
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But London has always been stony ground for reformers or innovators.
Times, Sunday Times
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The consequence may well be the forms of bureaucracy that so occupy the attention of administrative reformers.
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The "new reformers" have appropriated the term "innovation" as a descriptor for policy proposals and practices they advocate, and as an antonym for almost anything else.
Gregory Michie: The Trouble with 'Innovation' in Schools
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The same views were held by the Protestant Reformers.
Christianity Today
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However, the Protestant Reformers of the sixteenth century continued to hold the Augustinian view of the millennium; nevertheless they suggested changes in eschatological interpretation that led to a renewal of premillennialism in the seventeenth century.
The Myth/Reality of Antichrist - and the danger to America!
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People like the Victorian reformer John Ruskin argued that the working classes should be included in education, so that all could appreciate the wonders of human intellectual endeavour.
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When the Depression struck in 1929, and especially after Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal began trying to meliorate its effects, reformers hit a stone wall of conservatism on the high court.
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It looked as if the power of Rome itself had been weakened, but Rome struck back with the Counter Reformation, an open snub to the serious, even grim, world of the Protestant reformers.
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That is why economic reformers are striving to avert a sharp slowdown.
Times, Sunday Times
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Intent on removing alcohol from every table, temperance reformers across America made water the rallying symbol and principal icon of their movement.
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It is even more intolerantly communal in its attitude to the prophets and reformers within its own fold.
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John XXIII connived to ensure that Czech reformer Jan Hus was burned at the stake—even as his own position became insecure.
How the Secular World Began
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The Queen's mingling of the old and new religions (the 'Elizabethan Settlement') perturbed reformers and conservatives alike.
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Centuries later during the Counter-Reformation, the feast became still more important as an occasion to reassert the Tridentine dogma of transubstantiation against the various alternatives proposed by the Reformers, from "consubstantiation" to outright denial of the Real Presence in favor of seeing the Eucharist as a memorial alone.
The ambiguity of Corpus Christi
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She was an orthodox theologian, a reformer, a builder, a dramatist, a musician, an herbalist, and an abbess.
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The phrase ‘in the space of six days’ simply echoed Calvin, who like the other Reformers, spoke against the allegorization of a minority of the Church Fathers.
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Lace curtains framed the apartment's only windows, and conservators have discovered multiple layers of floral wallpaper on the walls of this apartment, despite the admonitions of reformers.
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It is unlikely to remember him as a great reformer.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, if drug reformers gain enough political power to threaten the drug-war cabal, an alliance between the two to repress youths is inevitable.
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George, like many land reformers, considered that land, unlike chattels, had been common property in early society; that existing land titles were effectively rooted in ancient theft.
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The Reformers were aware of the dangers of mere rote learning; they all insist that the pithy answers be learned" by heart.
Christianity Today
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But that doesn't mean defense attorneys and reformers should resign themselves to a conviction every time a client is fingered by a victim's last words.
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Is there anyway to guess whether he's going to be a reformer or a conservative or a technocrat or an ideologue?
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Whether it's shocking crowds with daredevil antics, or taking things apart to put them back together better, the zodiac's reformers always do things their way.
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a starry-eyed reformer
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Many of the Reformers (by my reading of them) condemned the notion of real presence (and transubstantiation) because they interpreted it as a fleshy and physical presence (what you call crass and I might call immoderate realist).
Sacramental Presence; Not Local--Thomas Aquinas
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Those who opposed reform of any kind caricatured the reformers as anarchic democrats.
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In addition, for reformers, the focus on the Eucharist as a physical rather than spiritual restorative led to an attack on the materialism of transformation.
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The mayor was criticized by radical reformers for his indecisiveness.
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Republican base and she quickly became known as a feisty "hockey mom" who throughout her short political life was known as a reformer not afraid to take
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The reformers had been at work in the period 1807-13, drumming up the patriotic spirit of the people.
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They argue that the problem does not exist, or has been grossly exaggerated, and they call the reformers alarmists, fanatics, scaremongers, prophets of doom and so on.
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Under Deng Xiaoping, the reformers slowly regained control of the country.
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There has never been a shortage of brilliant innovators such as Robert Owen, the founder of the co-operative movement, Florence Nightingale (a great social reformer, as well as a statistician and nurse), Ebenezer Howard (the founder of garden cities) and my own predecessor at the Young Foundation, Michael Young, the founder of dozens of new ventures from Which? to the Open University.
Happiness – and how to find it
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Analogies with the slave trade and slavery and the movement against them were apparent to such reformers.
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That same year, Sen. John McCain taped a phone message for Alaska reformers seeking to win RCV for statewide elections.
Rob Richie: What Howard Dean Could Tell Bill Clinton and Kendrick Meek: Change the Voting System
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The important issue for reformers was the creation of a national, comprehensive system offering guidance, placement, and after-care.
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But Wirahad won points with the public by styling himself as a reformer advocating the armed forces' retreat from politics.
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True adaptation to society comes automatically when the adolescent reformer attempts to put his ideas to work.
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Benedict made a historic gesture for interchurch unity by presiding over a prayer service with a Protestant bishop in the Erfurt monastery where the 16th-century reformer Martin Luther lived as a monk before he split with Rome.
Reuters: Press Release
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The concierge was more prescient that the reformers, whom Du Camp likened to the sorcerer's apprentice.
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They delight in getting trustful-souled gentle reformers before them.
Chapter 5: The Philomaths
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He says reformers argue that it would not entail the demise of the established church.
Times, Sunday Times
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Reformers do not want to redefine marriage.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, can anyone really ignore the casuistry of reformers and politicians who insist on blaming ill health on drugs while, at the same time, financing their own campaigns from the profits of the manufacturers?
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Checks, for example, from interest groups, the EU, or the House of Lords, the reformers might point out, are restraints on the elected government and the electors who voted for it.
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Across the country, education reformers have been pressing for more rigorous, quantifiable ways to evaluate teachers, and the District's new system is in the vanguard of that movement, even as unions and education experts question its merits.
D.C. schools to use data from teacher evaluation system in new ways
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‘The joint committee is split almost evenly among three factions: a third reformers, a third dinosaurs and a third floaters,’ he added.
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Weiyuan is a famous ideologist, historian and aggressive reformer in modern China.
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As to publicising the names of those arrested, they differed, as is natural between a journalist and a penal reformer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The debate would come to an unhappy close, with the Christological questions keeping the Reformers apart on the doctrine of the Eucharist.
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Board chairman Timothy Bassett, a notorious double-dipper, is said to be buddies with McGee, son of a legendary former House speaker who was ousted by reformers a generation ago.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Elsewhere in Hungary unisonous singing gained momentum around 1540 with the advent of the first Protestant reformers.
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She was the last of the great educational reformers.
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As a military reformer, Moore successfully developed light infantry tactics and training methods.
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Although Protestant reformers taught that God had predestined each individual to salvation or damnation, they still expected her to live a godly life, obeying God rather than man.
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The reformers were not merely considering the desire of actual rape victims to avoid publicity.
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The only provision made by Calvinist reformers for music in worship was simple metrical psalm settings.
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Some barmen threw fruits, vegetables, eggs, and handfuls of sawdust from the floor at the reformers.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Analogies with the slave trade and slavery and the movement against them were apparent to such reformers.
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Her father was an educator and social reformer.
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The world's Platts have always looked on reformers as political aberrations to be scorned as "bleeding hearts" and "do-gooders" out of touch with reality, if not actually tetched in the head, and therefore dangerous to political stability.
The Performer
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Up to a point, it is bound to strengthen the hand of reformers.
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But it is not a core curriculum like that being touted by test-and-measure statehouse reformers.
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But nearing the end of his premiership, Wen, who has long ties in the Communist Party and was allied with such past reformers as the late Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang, is also quietly building an image as a crusader for more openness and accountability within the country's tightly closed, authoritarian political system.
China's Wen, in the twilight of his premiership, takes on reformer's role
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Roosevelt was more of a conservative reformer than most businessmen understood.
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Next to the lute is an open hymn book, identifiable as the work of the great religious reformer Martin Luther.
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Cleveland dismissed these complaints as the howls of old Jacksonian spoilsmen and wild-eyed currency reformers, among whom he counted his vice president.
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So the next time you're feeling down, or exhausted, or unappreciated, or at the end of your rope; the next time you turn on the TV and see yourself called "overpaid;" the next time you encounter some simple-minded, punitive policy that's been driven into your life by some corporate reformer who has literally never taught anyone anything. ...
Dan Brown: Matt Damon's Powerful Education Speech at the Save Our Schools Rally in DC
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Progressive reformers focused public attention in particular on low-income children.
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Jesus was no reformer content to tidy things up around the edges, he was a Truth-speaking liberator who aimed for nothing less than overturning the money-changer tables of the corrupted human heart.
Richard Schiffman: Was Jesus a Liberal?
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The Hunsdens were always unrivalled at tracking a rascal; a downright, dishonourable villain is their natural prey — they could not keep off him wherever they met him; you used the word pragmatical just now — that word is the property of our family; it has been applied to us from generation to generation; we have fine noses for abuses; we scent a scoundrel a mile off; we are reformers born, radical reformers; and it was impossible for me to live in the same town with Crimsworth, to come into weekly contact with him, to witness some of his conduct to you (for whom personally I care nothing; I only consider the brutal injustice with which he violated your natural claim to equality) — I say it was impossible for me to be thus situated and not feel the angel or the demon of my race at work within me.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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He was not a satyagrahi, he was not a reformer, nor a hero.
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A nephew of the poet Desportes, Regnier was loyal to his uncle's fame and to the memory of the Pléiade; if Malherbe spoke slightingly of Desportes, and cast aside the tradition of the school of Ronsard, the retort was speedy and telling against the arrogant reformer, tyrant of words and syllables, all whose achievement amounted to no more than _proser de la rime et rimer de la prose_.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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The tensive, paradoxical image of childhood forged by the Reformers has much to teach mainline Protestantism.
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In excluding spoilsmen from public office, the reformers were, in a sense, engaged in a negative work: that of ‘keeping the rascals out.’
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Influenced by the liberal doctrines of the Enlightenment, German reformers tried to accelerate and regulate this process by limiting seignorial dues and services in hopes that liberation from the most oppressive aspects of seignorialism and a larger stake in the produce of a seigniory would encourage peasants to work harder.
Food That Tastes Good and is Good For You, Too
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Most remarkably, like the slaves who pitied the awkward moves of their masters, Agnes looked down upon the elite and the moral reformers who believed that Coney Island and dance halls were beneath them.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Not surprisingly, Protestant reformers later rejected that move as hopelessly unscriptural.
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Peter Cooper, a self-taught industrialist, inventor and social reformer, founded the college with the mission of making higher education available to all; it was among the first to admit blacks, women, students of any religion and those who could not pay, making it need-blind long before the term existed.
NYT > Home Page
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She had been a prominent social worker and reformer in the Progressive Era.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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He speaks not for an educational establishment too often bound by its own inertia, but for a generation of reformers whose work is bearing fruit.
Times, Sunday Times
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The title intended by Sheridan for this paper was "Hernan's Miscellany," to which his friend Halhed objected, and suggested, "The Reformer," as a newer and more significant name.
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01
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In 1883, a social reformer complained that ‘the cities grow, unwholesomely crowding people together till they are packed in tiers, family above family, so are they [also] unwholesomely separated in the country.’
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Maconochie was a pioneer in unrelated disciplines but it was as a penal reformer that he was most influential.
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The new super, John Deasy, calls himself a reformer, which these days means he wants to re-form student test scores into teacher evaluation scores.
Larry Strauss: Hail to the Incoming Superintendent
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In his book on New York State politics in the Progressive era Richard L. McCormick had shown how the hold of party bosses had been undermined by the attacks of reformers and antiparty crusaders, and how new issues had arisen that were incapable of being resolved by the traditional party technique of distributing favors as widely as possible.
Interpretations of American History
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This was Edmund Gordon, a distinguished black psychologist and educational reformer who briefly replaced Jeffries as department chairman.
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The present orthographic system was introduced in the fourteenth century by the religious reformer Jan Hus, who instituted a system of diacritical markings to eliminate consonant clusters.
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There they fell under the influence of activist revivalists and reformers.
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The ensuing contradictions between internationalist democratic reformers and xenophobic worshipers of a divine emperor only grew with time.
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Yet precisely because so much of how he will govern is uncertain, he has a historic opportunity to confound his doubters and prove himself a genuine reformer.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the comments most commonly made in this context was that Scotland was a more law-abiding country than England, as evidenced by the prison reformer John Howard having found fewer criminals in its gaols.
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Liberalism "describes the" practical reformer "so that anybody can recognize him:" This revolt against ideas is carried so far that able men have come seriously to look upon progress as a matter for the manipulation of wire-pullers, something to be 'jobbed' in committee by sophistical notions or other clever trickery.
A Preface to Politics
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In 1785 the reformer turned his attention to plague prevention, examining lazarettos in France, Italy and Turkey - and deliberately experiencing quarantine in Venice.
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The never ending power struggles between the hardliners and reformers certainly does not help to cool their heads.
