| This is the backdrop against which we consider reforming Canada's political institutions for the twenty-first century. |
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| Unfortunately, the sudden and tragic death of John Lennon in 1980 extinguished any hope of the Beatles reforming. |
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| The estimable Frank Field, given the task of reforming welfare by the prime minister, argued strongly against any extension of means-testing. |
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| There were few doctrinaires in Parliament, and the reforming zeal of the Whigs rapidly waned. |
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| This budget abandons all hope of reforming wasteful military procurement and distorts America's priorities at home and abroad. |
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| It is debilitating and draining, and diverts the energy that should be going into reforming Scotland. |
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| He is widely credited with reforming the office from his predecessor's days. |
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| We must first of all, as a country and people, formularize a strategy for reforming energy in rural areas. |
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| As everyone keeps saying, elderly popes can surprise us all, as John XXIII did by convoking the reforming Second Vatican Council. |
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| He was a reforming works and pensions secretary who must tackle the thorny problems of invalidity and provision for old age. |
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| He said that he would quit his post after he finishes his assigned task of reforming party policies, but that he would remain a party member. |
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| Congress is looking at reforming indecency laws to be much tougher on transgressors. |
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| They don't support the demands on reforming the international financial architecture or fair trade. |
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| But at the most fundamental level I think they should try reforming the mental health system in this country. |
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| In occasional diocesan synods, they harangued their clergy and issued reforming regulations. |
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| It also means that the cause of reforming the Arab world is not as hopeless as it looks today. |
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| These issues to me are far more important than childish name calling and are really what we should be spending our time reforming. |
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| We should encourage it to open up its almost hermetically closed society by radically reforming its educational system. |
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| But reforming the media through policy changes may be the toughest nut to crack in the entire U.S. political system. |
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| Yet there are still debates between traditionalists and progressives as to reforming the electoral process even further. |
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| This one-time Democratic bill about reforming the accounting industry now has very, very solid support in the Senate. |
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| Our reforming party had a proud record of social service and we boasted about it. |
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| The Council passed reforming decrees in keeping with the Cluniac reform movement, including ones concerning simony and clerical marriage. |
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| Will they choose to further modernize this industrialized country by reforming laws and social norms unfair to women? |
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| However, all these countries face substantial costs in reforming their banking sectors. |
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| He studied antiquity in immense detail, in search of a basis for reforming modern architecture, which he thought had become lumpish and boring. |
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| William also brought with him the Norman church, with its Romanesque church architecture and its reforming spirit. |
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| At the same time, legislation reforming the licensing laws should also be in place. |
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| She shared her husband's reforming zeal and supported him in his campaigns. |
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| Some have argued that the activities of these reforming scholars indicate a renaissance of Chinese public morality. |
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| Luther did indeed set out with the idea of reforming the church, but reformation quickly turned into revolution. |
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| The most polluting methods are the ones that rely on reforming hydrocarbons inside the car. |
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| Mr Kennedy rejected putting retribution to satisfy the victims of crime above reforming criminals. |
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| Consequently, reforming institutions of the federal government to accommodate western concerns may indeed help cure this problem. |
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| Its aim was to help such countries to acquire technology and sustainability by reforming their institutions and improving their competitiveness. |
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| This means not only refurbishing existing institutions, reforming committees and the like, but building new political sites. |
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| There can be absolutely no excuse for the government to avoid reforming these corrupt institutions. |
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| Patrick Mulvaney mentions some excellent ways of reforming US elections. |
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| It should come as a surprise to no one that his calling card is reforming entitlements. |
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| Therefore, reforming this trade is part of a comprehensive strategy, including regional governance reforms, to help end the war. |
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| But he has only been in the job for six months, and his promise of reforming the curia may just be the tip of the iceberg. |
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| Most fuel cells on the market combine atmospheric oxygen with hydrogen generated by reforming methanol or methane to make electricity, with water as a byproduct. |
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| Boyle's novels are wittily and slyly satiric about the earnest, innocent reforming utopians who questioned social attitudes and proselytised progressive, perfectionist ideals. |
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| The present book includes as appendices the rites of the 1962 and 1970 missals, as well as essays by liturgical scholars on diverse aspects of reforming the reform. |
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| Incapable of reforming itself in the spirit of the new times, the decrepit empire sank into a deep economic and social crisis which it never overcame. |
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| Sara Catania is a 2002 Crime and Communities Media Fellow with the Open Society Institute, a New York-based nonprofit dedicated to reforming the criminal-justice system. |
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| Enter a candidate like Bush, talking about the importance of a federal role in reforming education and immigration. |
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| When Francis was elected in March 2013, he made it clear that reforming the Vatican financial mess was a priority. |
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| The new Russian leadership was far more interested in embracing Western-style democratic capitalism than in reforming socialism. |
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| To aid her reforming efforts she enlisted a young Carmelite friar, nearly three decades her junior, named John of the Cross, to begin a reform among the male Carmelites. |
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| Although it will require major revisions, it is an important step toward reforming a medical care system that is in disarray and serving our citizens suboptimally. |
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| The French have had a crack at reforming plurals and circumflexes. |
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| It is produced by steam reforming natural gas to create a synthesis gas. |
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| The discussion document will form the basis of a future position paper which will then go to the Department of Health, which is in charge of reforming marriage law. |
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| We have to admit that stubborn gerontocracy has been a major obstacle to reforming politics due to the aged politicians' obstinacy and narrow-mindedness. |
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| It would be the cost effectiveness of the appliance and the energy efficiency of reforming or electrolyzing that will determine whether home refueling will make sense. |
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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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| In 1163 Henry returned to England, intent on reforming the role of the royal courts. |
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| Alexander arranged a double phalanx, with the center advancing at an angle, parting when the chariots bore down and then reforming. |
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| In the First Division in 1976, they then sank to the bottom professional tier before reforming after a 1982 bankruptcy. |
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| The Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, Charles Borromeo, was a very important figure in reforming church music after the Council of Trent. |
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| He repudiated the reforming policies, and all consideration of an English marriage for the Queen, angering the English. |
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| Jenkins considered Asquith as foremost amongst the great social reforming premiers of the twentieth century. |
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| Here Blair found an opportunity to implement one of Labour's campaign promises, reforming the Lords. |
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| He established a good reputation as an administrator, as well as a commander, by reforming the widely corrupt corn levy. |
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| Grey set about reforming Britain's corrupt and antiquated electoral procedure, the issue over which Huskisson had resigned. |
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| A new type of ruler emerged intent on breaking the power of the aristocrats and reforming their state's bureaucracies. |
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| A reforming Indonesia that nonetheless was ruthless in aceh, for instance. |
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| It requires two reforming stages that are both operated adiabatically so that the system can be kept simple and compact. |
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| The Alfa Laval Packinox heat exchangers will be used in a catalytic reforming unit for production of gasoline. |
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| By the late 1960s, it had become obvious that the structure of local government in England and Wales needed reforming. |
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| The cabinet initiated an ambitious programme of reforming the welfare state, the healthcare system, and immigration policy. |
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| Steam reforming of natural gas is widely used in industry and can be easily scaled down for residential applications. |
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| Catalytic reforming yields so-called reformate, which is rich in the aromatic compounds benzene, toluene and xylene. |
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| Today, nearly half the hydrogen produced in the world is derived from natural gas via a steam reforming process. |
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| The militia was transformed into the Special Reserve by the military reforms of Haldane in the reforming post 1906 Liberal government. |
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| To make hydrogen, Haldor Topsoe and other companies usually employ a method called steam reforming. |
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| Anthony Weiner, were on hand Wednesday to discuss the controversial stop and frisk policy and reforming the New York Police Department. |
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| However, many of the peers who had initially supported Montfort began to suspect that he had gone too far with his reforming zeal. |
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| Meanwhile, sea ice starts reforming, so the surface waters also get saltier, hence very dense. |
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| In the chemical industry, methane is converted to synthesis gas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, by steam reforming. |
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| Hydrogen from water vapor reduces the oxide, reforming water vapor and continuing this water cycle. |
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| She is the author of a plan for reforming the school system. |
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| Commercial bulk hydrogen is usually produced by the steam reforming of natural gas. |
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| At NYU, she became passionate about preventing lynchings, desegregating the armed forces, and reforming the criminal justice system. |
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| Bertin strongly supported the physiocratic belief that a country's prosperity was based on agriculture, and he worked on reforming it in France. |
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| The PDPA pushed for a socialist transformation by abolishing arranged marriages, promoting mass literacy and reforming land ownership. |
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| Hydrogen embrittlement is avoided altogether by combining pyrolysis with reforming in a direct contact refractory lined vessel. |
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| Chiefly she supported her father's idea of reforming the church but made some minor adjustments. |
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| The agreements at Nice had paved the way for further enlargement of the Union by reforming voting procedures. |
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| The legates and the king then proceeded to hold a series of ecclesiastical councils dedicated to reforming and reorganising the English church. |
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| The primary chemical reactions of methane are combustion, steam reforming to syngas, and halogenation. |
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| Conservation biology is reforming around strategic plans to protect biodiversity. |
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| When he and his brother Thomas fell out with Simon's sons Henry, Simon, and Guy, they deserted the reforming cause and joined Edward. |
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| George Keith, the fifth Earl Marischal was a moderniser within the college and supportive of the reforming ideas of Peter Ramus. |
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| A leading Peelite was William Ewart Gladstone, who was a reforming Chancellor of the Exchequer in most of these governments. |
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| They generally saw themselves as restoring the original church of Jesus Christ rather than reforming one of the existing churches. |
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| She also says that prototypes of catalytic steam reforming systems that are fueled with peanut shells are now undergoing field tests. |
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| Subsequent Protestant denominations generally trace their roots back to the initial reforming movements. |
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| The seminal Manchester band might not be reforming but their debut LP, dubbed the greatest album of all time by NME, is being re-released on August 10 in four deluxe formats. |
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| The failures of the Imperial Court to enact such reforming measures of political liberalization and modernization caused the reformists to steer toward the road of revolution. |
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| John spent much of the next decade attempting to regain these lands, raising huge revenues, reforming his armed forces and rebuilding continental alliances. |
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| Civil parish councils were formed in England under the reforming Local Government Act 1894 to take over local oversight of civic duties in rural towns and villages. |
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| He noted that studying the balances of ministries showed structural issues in some of the ministries, which requires revaluating and then reforming their structures. |
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| He exerted a reforming influence on the text of the Book of Common Prayer. |
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| The bull gave King Henry II of England authority to invade Ireland ostensibly as a means of reforming the church in Ireland more directly under the control of the Holy See. |
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| The introductions are sometimes deficient as when Carey prints a martyrology prepared by Oengus the Culdee without relating the text to the Culdees' reforming program. |
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| On 1 December 1648, the House voted 129 to 83 to continue negotiations with Charles for reforming the government on terms they had proposed and he had accepted. |
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| Renewing and reforming aspects of our institutional life is a necessary but far from sufficient response to the challenges facing the Church of England. |
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| He spent much of his reign reforming royal administration and common law. |
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| In 1647, different factions of the victorious parliamentary army held a series of discussions, the Putney Debates, on reforming the structure of English government. |
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| The 12th century saw a reforming movement within the Church, however, advocating greater autonomy from royal authority for the clergy and more influence for the papacy. |
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| In 2006, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah committed to reforming the laws governing the press and media to create a freer system for journalists to work in. |
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| Despite the distraction of the problem of the House of Lords, Asquith and his government moved ahead with a number of pieces of reforming legislation. |
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| It does not require hydrocarbons like current methods of steam reforming. |
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| Hardy is credited with reforming British mathematics by bringing rigour into it, which was previously a characteristic of French, Swiss and German mathematics. |
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| Connecticut courts failed to recognize feme couvert property rights until 1723, when the legislature finally passed an act significantly reforming the law on conveyancing. |
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| The company also said it has developed a prototype 1 kilowatt system, based on steam reforming, that can generate 1 kilowatt equivalent of hydrogen gas. |
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| Priestley has been remembered by the towns in which he served as a reforming educator and minister and by the scientific organisations he influenced. |
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