| It is now also accepted that widespread reform of the commission must take place. |
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| On March 27 urban and rural workers marched demanding agrarian reform and the suspension of a policy of privatizations. |
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| The Minister in charge of rural development and agrarian reform was not even told about the plan. |
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| The Supreme Court played a key role in immigration reform with its rulings that congressional districts must be reapportioned. |
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| Labour is beyond reform and Respect is fated to remain in the political wilderness. |
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| Today, the Prime Minister released his two options for Senate reform describing them as moderate and reasonable. |
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| It builds on the Government's ongoing reform of the criminal justice system, rebalancing the process in favour of victims and witnesses. |
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| The latest proposals for the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy were given a hostile reception by the Irish farm lobby yesterday. |
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| Many analysts say the reform package is essential to reinvigorating Germany's flagging economy, beset by slow growth and high unemployment. |
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| I made many resolutions to reform my personality, but never quite got round to it. |
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| Our aim is to reform our institutions and develop them into excellent ones. |
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| So I don't think you can reform educational institutions in radical ways, except in the wake of a revolution. |
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| The government's plan to reform the subsidy system is running into fierce opposition. |
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| The process of economic reform had inevitably increased individual autonomy. |
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| There was no real attempt to fundamentally reform or abandon the central planning process itself. |
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| A Westcliff security company has embarked on a campaign to reform working practices in the security business. |
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| For example, it has linked economic reform and structural adjustment to what it has termed good governance. |
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| We may be about to reengage in a debate that was abandoned in 1996 when welfare reform was passed. |
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| This concern gets to the heart of the matter for prison abolitionists, and it distinguishes our analysis from prison reform advocates. |
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| Many of these countries are natural allies of reform and rapid growth, having emerged from behind the iron curtain a decade and a half ago. |
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| In theory, re-education camps and reform through labor camps are significantly different. |
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| The party's recent troubles following the policy about-face on the reform of the grassroots financial institutions illustrates the problem. |
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| A fresh outbreak in hostilities over workers compensation reform in NSW looms. |
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| Often the coup is undertaken to pre-empt revolutionary change from below and impose a measure of reform from above. |
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| He's trying to reform a system that he inherited, which is riddled with centers of interest and some corruption and abuse. |
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| Among other details, she recounts that Douglas spent time in a rural reform school as a youth and his job was to tend the pigs. |
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| The founding of elementary schools, academies, and universities was an important part of the reform movement. |
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| Elizabeth Bentley spent her last years as a near-recluse in rented rooms in Connecticut, teaching in a reform school for girls. |
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| At the association's annual conference Mike Newell, right, called for reform to reduce the number of inmates entering jails. |
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| By contrast, those in favour of reform were accorded a respect that bordered on the deferential. |
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| They reform their old band and hit the road but nothing goes smoothly or according to plan. |
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| In a nation where a wealthy handful own half the farm acreage, land reform has been a major fuse for national turmoil. |
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| If the girl was deemed promiscuous, became pregnant, or could not keep a job, she could be returned to the reform school. |
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| Analysts said the public's weariness over the reform movement was due in part to its lack of direction. |
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| The persistent charges of jury packing in Ireland led to calls for reform of the jury selection statutes. |
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| It could be many years before the conditions are such that a radical reform of Social Security is possible. |
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| Voters in California and Ohio will cast ballots tomorrow on election reform initiatives that would change the way their states redistrict. |
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| Social Security reform has been a tough slog for the business lobby, normally more at home discussing golf outings than actuarial tables. |
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| I am locked down in a reform school for flipping out at school and for threatening my teacher. |
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| They also evaluated 97 boys and 22 girls, average age 15, living in a reform school for violent and nonviolent delinquents. |
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| He is being urged to reform inheritance tax so that less well-off people would be taxed less. |
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| Do you believe that constitutional reform is needed to rectify the situation? |
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| We will never have successful police reform as long as the judiciary is and is perceived to be corrupt. |
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| They weren't sure about the rule of law, or about how company reform would proceed. |
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| The second area would include judicial reform and reform in public administration. |
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| This turn of events may be the kiss of death to such reform efforts as were underway. |
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| We can only hope he succeeds in bringing reform and efficiency to the entire public administration. |
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| No doubt there are some very good arguments to be had about the need to reform the exam system, and the process of university admission. |
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| Mr Prescott also used today's speech to announce sweeping housing reforms to tackle rogue landlords and reform the right to buy. |
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| It isn't hard to guess how the new justices will rule on tort reform and school funding. |
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| In spite of reform in the law they say conviction rates are not encouraging and in most cases the killers escape justice. |
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| James Cagney plays Patsy Gargan, a two-bit racketeer who is awarded a post as deputy commissioner of a boys reform school as a political payoff. |
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| Costs hidden in the seams of communist systems must be paid, whichever reform strategy is chosen. |
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| Shelley was increasingly impatient with Whiggish parliamentary reform and compromise. |
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| The reform measures are still at the consultative stage, but the University hopes to issue a White Paper laying out its plans later in the year. |
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| Asbos may be effective, but where they are not, the kindest thing for the young offender is a well-managed reform school. |
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| There is definitely enough money to set up institutions to reform people who are criminals. |
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| Premature implementation will set back the cause of regional reform and development and aggravate political problems. |
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| A 1996 immigration reform law allows the government to deport illegal aliens convicted of an aggravated felony. |
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| This will allow Pitt to remain temporarily as a lame-duck chairman, helping to stall any reform proposals. |
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| It increased popular support by its association with the land reform agitation. |
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| When you learn about history you don't hear about medieval agrarian reform do you? |
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| I didn't understand, as a child, when they spoke of agrarian reform or urban reform, what they were talking about. |
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| Increasingly, government-sponsored agrarian reform initiatives were targeted only for areas where rural unrest or insurgency threatened. |
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| Despite mounting calls for agrarian reform and revisions to the 1960 Agrarian Law there has been little headway in the legal field on this subject. |
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| The particular reform that irked Conkling was the then-novel proposal to eliminate patronage in federal civil service hiring. |
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| The agrarian reform train is passing through your village this week. |
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| In particular, the promise of agrarian reform remains unfulfilled. |
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| Senate liberals are rallying around the dead letter of the health-care reform bill. |
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| If immigration reform is being considered by Congress, Iowa Republican Steve Kingis always sure to chime in. |
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| The LCR also dealt with questions like globalisation, women's liberation, gay rights, anti-racism and reform of the drugs laws, and attracted a younger electorate. |
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| In the first phase of his reform process, he has directed each institution to come up with two or three major projects that can be completed by December. |
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| It is sad, therefore, to find that election by acclamation is still practiced today by one of the political parties that supposedly leads the reform movement. |
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| At the end of the week, Boehner suggested that immigration reform might not, after all, be on the docket this year. |
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| Indeed, the reform policies of Napoleon reflected the regime's Janus-faced character that combined subordination and exploitation, innovation and progress. |
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| In tandem with a reform of the modern Mass, already tentatively under way, the foundations could be laid for a return to dignified worship and reassertion of doctrine. |
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| The administration's attempt to use personal relationships, loans and rhetorical rah-rah to nudge the country toward domestic reform simply has not worked. |
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| But the idea that tax reform will jump-start an economy suffering from the after-effects of a cyclical downturn is nonsense. |
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| House of Lords reform is up for debate next year, council elections need reform, the balance of power is out of kilter, but it's all hotch-potch and hand-to-mouth. |
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| Along the way, Munoz alienated some of her biggest allies in the reform movement. |
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| In this case constitutional reform or more representative institutions are undesirable, since they are as likely to impede as to accelerate modernisation. |
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| Immigration reform means a path to citizenship for people who came here illegally. |
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| The scorecard would keep track of the progress made on entitlement reform and award points accordingly. |
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| Rather than rationalize the tax code, or reform entitlements, the government has taken a cleaver to discretionary spending. |
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| She set out to reform the economy which she did with great success. |
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| Once the reform question was out of the way, however, the Duke was able to regain his political footing and operate effectively against the government. |
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| Many believe that the law will destroy efforts to reform a wayward youth. |
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| The only way out of this scenario is to reform and modernize the industry in the east of the country. |
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| There was agitation for reform and spies haunted the streets. |
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| It was a Republican Congress working with a Democratic president that succeeded in passing the welfare reform bill the first time. |
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| First, Michelle raised the aspirations and sense of urgency for the entire reform movement. |
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| But, really, the whole episode was a reminder of how reform can swerve when a government has its foot to the throttle. |
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| Dewey wanted to reconstruct philosophy to be a force of social reform and was personally involved in projects designed to bring about concrete changes in society. |
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| It will leave the ACA intact, as is, to accrete interest group support until reform becomes all-but-impossible. |
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| But failing that, he advised pro-immigration reform Republican candidates such as former Gov. Jeb Bush to just skip the state. |
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| Before the Findlay decision was given in Strasbourg, the British government had in fact sought and obtained legislation in Parliament to reform the court martial system. |
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| Even Rachel Maddow, who wrote her doctoral thesis on AIDS reform in prisons, seemed surprised by the seemingly magnanimous move. |
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| But until yesterday I would have said the same thing about the chances of patent reform in biotech, too. |
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| All this hand-wringing about our civic institutions and procedural reform and blah blah blah. |
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| But as a white kid I was afforded every opportunity to reform and reinvent myself, so I did. |
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| He called for proper funding to be put in place for hospitals, schools and local services but felt that a great opportunity to reform local government had been lost. |
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| Its evangelical work and social reform work were wedded together. |
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| But it is hard not to ponder whether more intelligent constitutional reform could have refashioned the assembly in a useful way, rather than simply abolishing it. |
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| No wonder criminal-justice reform is no longer the sole concern of balladeers and bleeding hearts. |
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| After a schizophrenic student said the school failed to help her, calls for reform have escalated. |
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| As you might expect from someone who has spent time in an orphanage and a reform school, he has a rather jaundiced view of some professional charity organisers. |
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| Our job creators would also benefit from fundamental tax reform that would simplify and flatten our Byzantine tax code. |
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| Yet not a single political party is uncompromisingly committed to the sort of programme of radical reform which would rectify these horrific wrongs. |
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| But a Western policy that is blind to the urgent need for reform and justice is certain to end in catastrophe. |
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| Though this has been portrayed as genuine consultation, in fact the lack of any real, driving ideas about educational reform is an abnegation of political responsibility. |
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| Further reform will tighten the rankings given to schools by inspectors. |
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| Policy wonks remember Carter's deregulation and Reagan's 1986 tax reform with grateful awe. |
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| The tax reform plan we endorse is revenue neutral, collecting as much federal tax revenue as the current income tax code, including payroll withholding taxes. |
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| Without question, a lifetime of hard physical labor at low paying employment led Angela to become an ardent advocate of labor reform for working girls. |
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| It is generous in its scope, but the generosity is based on long-term realism and the proposition that reform and change is not only necessary, but unavoidable. |
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| Jan Milic Lochman's contribution to David Willis and Michael Welker's book emphasizes the history of radical reform among Waldensians, Hussites and Czech Brethren. |
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| While we were now a low tax regime, he felt there was still scope for further tax reform to redistribute wealth to those on low and middle incomes. |
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| The New York City Workfare Media Initiative teaches welfare recipients and union workers how to use documentaries about workfare and welfare reform as organizing tools. |
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| The same lament about constant meddling from politicians could be applied to education where since the eighties there has been reform followed by contradictory reform. |
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| So it's about time the issue of electoral reform was back on the agenda. |
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| Yet delaying reform through endless negotiation was only one of the games Wall Street lobbyists have played. |
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| Today, however, a Times reporter suggests congressional reform is dead. |
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| If anyone can wrest reform out of our deformed political system, it is this man. |
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| This policy would have put Roosevelt in the same general category of agrarian reform as Stalin and Mao Tse-tung. |
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| But in the aggregate, immigration reform is not a salient issue for white evangelicals. |
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| The baronial regime collapsed but Henry was unable to reform a stable government and instability across England continued. |
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| The government issued the Charter of the Forest, which attempted to reform the royal governance of the forests. |
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| A reform of local government abolished Cleveland and created several unitary districts. |
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| By now the Ordainers had drawn up their Ordinances for reform and Edward had little political choice but to give way and accept them in October. |
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| These laws became templates for public health reform in other cities and states. |
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| In 2008, an opposition rally in Sana'a demanding electoral reform was met with police gunfire. |
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| Saudi Arabia remained hostile to any form of political and social reform in Yemen and continued to provide financial support for tribal elites. |
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| Originally appointed ad hoc, a reform in 802 led to the office of missus dominicus becoming a permanent one. |
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| By 1560, a relatively small group of Protestants were in a position to impose reform on the Scottish church. |
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| The Whigs became champions of Parliamentary reform by making the Reform Act of 1832 their signature measure. |
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| Higham argues that Bede designed his work to promote his reform agenda to Ceolwulf, the Northumbrian king. |
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| A period of reform occurred between 49 BC, when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and 29 BC, when Octavian returned to Rome after Actium. |
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| Fisher was brought into the Admiralty to reduce naval budgets, and to reform the navy for modern war. |
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| Besides relief work, these groups also undertook studies to plan for economic reconstruction and political reform after the end of the war. |
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| He launched the Infitah economic reform policy, while clamping down on religious and secular opposition. |
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| In a process known as the Marian reforms, Roman consul Gaius Marius carried out a programme of reform of the Roman military. |
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| Hopes for reform of the existing church helped keep the political nation unified. |
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| One act of his reign urges the Scottish burghs to reform and support the teaching of music in Sang Sculis. |
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| Industrial age reform movements began the gradual change of society rather than with episodes of rapid fundamental changes. |
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| Alfred undertook no systematic reform of ecclesiastical institutions or religious practices in Wessex. |
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| By the late nineteenth century there was increasing pressure to reform the structure of English counties. |
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| The reform caused the geographic counties to be defined separately once again, and they became known as ceremonial counties. |
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| Mucianus started off Vespasian's rule with tax reform that was to restore the empire's finances. |
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| Evidence for Edward's involvement in legal reform is hard to find but his reign saw a major programme of legal change. |
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| Borstals were run by HM Prison Service and were intended to reform seriously delinquent young people. |
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| Henry's desire to reform the relationship with the Church led to conflict with his former friend Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury. |
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| However, widespread resistance to reforms within the government and from a significant part of the population soon stalled the reform efforts. |
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| The agreement is part of Moldova's strategy to reform its military and cooperate with its neighbours. |
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| In 1259, he briefly sided with a baronial reform movement, supporting the Provisions of Oxford. |
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| An equally important reform was the abolition of private tax farming, which was replaced by salaried civil service tax collectors. |
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| Unlike his father, Pippin, and uncle, Carloman, Charlemagne expanded the reform Church's programme. |
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| This system more or less remained the same until the 1993 reform of the Nationality Code, created by the 9 January 1973 law. |
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| The Stolypin agrarian reform led to a massive peasant migration and settlement into Siberia. |
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| In 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev tried to reform and revitalize the economy with his program of perestroika. |
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| Also in 1990 there was an attempt to reform the currency at 100 to 1, with new banknotes of 20 and 50 new shilin prepared for the redenomination. |
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| The reform movement succeeded in limiting the Lusignan influence, however, and gradually Edward's attitude started to change. |
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| Yet the most significant legal reform was probably that concerning the Justices of the Peace. |
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| Many of these letters contain questions about church reform and liturgical or doctrinal matters. |
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| Montesquieu was somewhat ahead of his time in advocating major reform of slavery in The Spirit of the Laws. |
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| Leo's reform did much to reduce the previous fragmentation of the Empire, which henceforth had one center of power, Constantinople. |
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| Instability continued, and Haidallah's ambitious reform attempts foundered. |
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| Since the political reform of the absolute monarchy in 1932, Thailand has had 19 constitutions and charters. |
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| Churchmen such as Erasmus and Luther proposed reform to the Church, often based on humanist textual criticism of the New Testament. |
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| Since the constitutional reform of 1996, the bicameral legislature consists of two chambers. |
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| Along with the reform of the tax system, he reinforced the guards at the postal relays and centralized control of monetary affairs. |
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| Martinho de Melo e Castro, secretary of State of the Navy, the Portuguese Navy suffers a large reform and modernization. |
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| It has continued to call regularly for social and economic reform in Cuba, along with the unconditional release of all political prisoners. |
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| The January 2010 earthquake, was a major setback for education reform in Haiti as it diverted limited resources to survival. |
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| He declared that henceforth the moral reform of the Church would be the sole object of his life. |
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| Because of this, Isabella needed desperately to find a way to reform her kingdom. |
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| Wolsey had many years before conducted the censuses required for an overhaul of the system of militia, but no reform resulted. |
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| A major reform of the customs service has significantly improved transparency in this area. |
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| In 2010, the economic reform plan was approved by parliament to cut subsidies gradually and replace them with targeted social assistance. |
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| The building works, including that at Berwick, along with the reform of the militias and musters, were eventually finished under Queen Mary. |
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| Rizal then returned to the Philippines to organize La Liga Filipina and bring the reform movement to Philippine soil. |
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| Despite having some support, proposals to reform the date have not been implemented. |
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| The reform was proposed for implementation starting in 2001, but it was not ultimately adopted by any member body. |
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| One component of this reform was the creation of an institution of regulated warfare called the Flower Wars. |
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| The other group not to be tolerated was people who wanted reform to go much further, and who finally gave up on the Church of England. |
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| Mary drafted plans for currency reform but they were not implemented until after her death. |
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| The changing government burdened the Cossacks as well, extending its reach to reform the Cossack traditions. |
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| However, the reform was undermined by corrupt officials, cynicism, and quarrels within the imperial family. |
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| Olivares realized that Spain needed to reform, and to reform it needed peace, first and foremost with the United Provinces. |
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| Webster was a proponent of English spelling reform for reasons both philological and nationalistic. |
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| Wycliffe also believed that it was necessary to return to the primitive state of the New Testament in order to truly reform the Church. |
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| In 1649, during the English Civil War, Parliament published a series of orders to reform the Court. |
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| He also made statutory provision to reform and promote the teaching of music, seeing the two in connection. |
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| With increasing court backlogs, it was clear to many law reformers and politicians that serious reform was needed. |
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| Cromwell seems to have expected this group of 'amateurs' to produce reform without management or direction. |
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| The social priorities did not, despite the revolutionary nature of the government, include any meaningful attempt to reform the social order. |
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| He continued to support the reform movement in Geneva, and in 1541 he was invited back to lead the church of the city. |
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| By 1585, Geneva, once the wellspring of the reform movement, had become merely its symbol. |
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| The triers and the ejectors were intended to be at the vanguard of Cromwell's reform of parish worship. |
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| By the middle of the century, pressure to reform the structures of the church were being felt. |
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| Luther's reform movement, however, usually did not as a rule abrogate the ecclesiastic office of Bishop. |
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| In part this position was also necessary, as otherwise there would have been no means to elicit or initiate reform of the church. |
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| In 1992, the Episcopal Missionary Church was established after its leaders first attempted to reform ECUSA from within. |
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| Lutheranism has its roots in the work of Martin Luther, who sought to reform the Western Church to what he considered a more biblical foundation. |
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| According to this belief, Lutheranism is a reform movement rather than a movement into doctrinal correctness. |
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| Several varied currents of thought were active, but the ideas of reform and renewal were led by the clergy. |
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| The regular orders made their first attempts at reform in the 14th century. |
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| Despite the wide use of the death penalty, calls for reform were not unknown. |
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| Some calls for reform stress the difficulties encountered by potential claimants. |
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| Supporters of tort reform in Congress regularly call for legislation to make Rule 11 stricter. |
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| The House of Commons underwent an important period of reform during the 19th century. |
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| Pluralists also seek the construction or reform of social institutions in order to reflect and balance competing principles. |
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| Parliamentary reform in 1832 saw the influence of the West India Committee decline. |
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| They engaged in a systematic campaign of terror amongst the rural Nicaraguan population to disrupt the social reform projects of the Sandinistas. |
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| However, the government's land reform program badly damaged the sector, turning Zimbabwe into a net importer of food products. |
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| Since the land reform programme in 2000, tourism in Zimbabwe has steadily declined. |
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| Bright sat in the House of Commons from 1843 to 1889, promoting free trade, electoral reform and religious freedom. |
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| In the election of 1852 Bright was again returned for Manchester on the principles of free trade, electoral reform and religious freedom. |
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| On 27 October 1858, he launched his campaign for parliamentary reform at Birmingham Town Hall. |
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| It stimulated the demand for further reform throughout Ireland, especially in Ulster. |
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| Earl Gray argued that the aristocracy would best be served by a cautiously constructive reform program. |
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| This scheme, although often reworked, remained the basis of all proposals to reform the government until Asquith's fall on 6 December. |
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| Pitt also supported parliamentary reform measures, including a proposal that would have checked electoral corruption. |
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| The bill introduced in 1785 was Pitt's last parliamentary reform proposal introduced in Parliament. |
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| The act contains provisions which reform two institutions and one former office of the United Kingdom. |
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| Faced with opposition to his religious reform policies from both the King and the British public, Pitt threatened to resign. |
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| Following the later reform of the House of Lords, these are no longer listed as members of the House of Lords. |
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| When Palmerston died in 1865, however, the floodgates for reform were opened. |
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| The virtue brigades find it hard to realise that reform is not a jhatka process. |
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| By this time the attitude of many in the country had ceased to be apathetic regarding reform of the House of Commons. |
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| Cato made use of the filibuster again in 59 BC in response to a land reform bill sponsored by Caesar, who was then consul. |
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| The Whigs had been out of power for most years since the 1770s, and saw political reform in response to the unrest as the key to their return. |
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| By 1900 reform movements had taken root within the Indian National Congress. |
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| In a single document it dealt with reform of institutions, extension of powers, foreign policy cooperation and the single market. |
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| At the same time, however, it noted that governmental reform was required before this could happen. |
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| The second state reform took place in 1980, when the cultural communities became Communities. |
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| One notable responsibility that was transferred to the Communities during the third state reform was education. |
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| However, the fourth state reform was not the end of the process of federalization. |
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| In 2001, a fifth state reform took place, under Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, with the Lambermont and the Lombard Accords. |
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| The government built railroads, improved roads, and inaugurated a land reform program to prepare the country for further development. |
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| Confucius advocated loyalty to principle rather than to individual acumen, in which reform was to be achieved by persuasion rather than violence. |
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| Aurangzeb's son, Shah Alam, repealed the religious policies of his father, and attempted to reform the administration. |
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| A major Mughal reform introduced by Akbar was a new land revenue system called zabt. |
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| When electoral reform was an issue it worked to protect its base in rural England. |
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| Swedenborg himself did not call for a new organization, but for profound theological reform for the existing churches. |
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| A referendum for a further local government reform connected with an elected regional assembly was planned for 2004, but was abandoned. |
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| She has promised social reform and a more centrist political outlook for the Conservative Party and its government. |
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| Following local government reform in 1974, city status was bestowed upon the wider metropolitan borough. |
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| Totnes was served by Totnes electoral borough from 1295 until the reform act of 1867, but was restored by the 1884 Franchise Act. |
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| The era saw a reform and renaissance of public schools, inspired by Thomas Arnold at Rugby. |
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| Because of this, there were calls from some in UKIP for a voting reform in favour of proportional representation. |
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| They are representative reform and opening up-minded officials in North Korea. |
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| Six new reform prisons are to be built with prison governors in charge of operation and budget. |
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| The departmental board has overall responsibility for delivery of the structural reform plan. |
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| In 1974, administrative counties and county boroughs were abolished, and a major reform was instituted. |
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| It means that the outlook for immigration reform will only get bleaker. |
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| The readers will appreciate the editors' decision to present the reform assessment in a general readable form. |
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| The same thing happened with Rudy Crew, the high-salaried junketeer whom Kitzhaber put in charge of his education reform project. |
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| Either way, the arithmetic means Blair would not be able to pursue his reform agenda. |
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| But Newton insisted that divine intervention would eventually be required to reform the system, due to the slow growth of instabilities. |
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| He grew up in a family of Whig reformers who, like his uncle Josiah Wedgwood, supported electoral reform and the emancipation of slaves. |
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| Royal power was put behind the reforming impulses of Dunstan and Athelwold, helping them to enforce their reform ideas. |
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| Mughal rule ushered economic prosperity, agrarian reform and flourishing external trade, particularly in muslin and silk textiles. |
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| In 1950, land reform was accomplished in East Bengal with the abolition of the permanent settlement and the feudal zamindari system. |
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| The orthography reform of 1996 led to public controversy and considerable dispute. |
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| The early Puritan movement was a movement for reform in the Church of England. |
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| This is made evident in the prominence of Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli as leaders of the reform movements in their respective areas of ministry. |
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| The slowness of liberal reform between 1771 and 1829 led to much bitterness in Ireland, which underpinned Irish nationalism until recent times. |
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| As such, he repeatedly took advantage of expedient moments to press the English monarchy for concessions and support of the reform agenda. |
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| Under Wesley's direction, Methodists became leaders in many social issues of the day, including prison reform and the abolition of slavery. |
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| Lancashire is smaller than its historical extent following a major reform of local government. |
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| The process of reform had decidedly different causes and effects in other countries. |
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| Due to increasingly slack religious practice in Lindisfarne, Cuthbert was sent to Lindisfarne as a way to reform the religious community. |
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| The growing reform movement, led by humanists such as Erasmus and Thomas More, began, however, to change religious attitudes. |
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| Holman Hunt was involved with the movement to reform design through the Della Robbia Pottery company. |
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| Before the war, Moore had been approached by educator Henry Morris, who was trying to reform education with his concept of the Village College. |
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| In scholasticism, Ockham advocated reform in both method and content, the aim of which was simplification. |
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| Radically reduced in price to ensure unprecedented circulation, it was sensational in its impact and gave birth to reform societies. |
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| Among his many proposals for legal and social reform was a design for a prison building he called the Panopticon. |
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| During this time he became interested in social reform and the works of John Stuart Mill. |
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| It has also been suggested that the rhyme records the attempt by King Charles I to reform the taxes on liquid measures. |
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| The great Chartist rally in 1848, a campaign for social reform by the working class began in the square. |
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| Samaranch set up a commission to investigate the corruption and introduced reform of the bid process as a result of the scandal. |
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| The Heart of Oak Society was previously a friendly society, but had to reform in 1989 to keep the tradition going. |
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| The modern region Normandy was created by the territorial reform of French Regions in 2014 by the merger of Lower Normandy, and Upper Normandy. |
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| Since its founding, there have been many calls for reform of the UN but little consensus on how to do so. |
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| If radical reform was not undertaken, warned Mohamed Sahnoun, then the UN would continue to respond to such crisis with inept improvisation. |
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| Territorial reform is sometimes propagated by the richer states as a means to avoid or reduce fiscal transfers. |
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| Article 29 reflects a debate on territorial reform in Germany that is much older than the Basic Law. |
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| Many Irish economists and politicians realised that economic policy reform was necessary. |
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| No further constitutional reform was proposed until Labour returned to power in 1997, when a second Scottish devolution referendum was held. |
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| The midget-minded masochists among us, it seems, cannot bear even the slightest hint of progress toward law reform and justice for Gays. |
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| The bull granted Henry the right to invade Ireland in order to reform Church practices. |
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| There are however few signs that reform of the Security Council will happen in the near future. |
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| Proposals to reform the Security Council began with the conference that wrote the UN Charter and have continued to the present day. |
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| The permanent members, each holding the right of veto, announced their positions on Security Council reform reluctantly. |
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| The initial movement within Germany diversified, and other reform impulses arose independently of Luther. |
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| In 1539, the King sent a new governor to Iceland, Klaus von Mervitz, with a mandate to introduce reform and take possession of church property. |
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| This was an ongoing process of constitutional reform with the Ministry of Justice as lead ministry. |
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| The Coalition also promised to introduce law on the reform of the House of Lords. |
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| Such a charge was devastating to troops struggling to reform their lines, or fix the recently introduced 'plug' bayonets. |
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