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Example sentences for "reform"

Lexicographically close words:
reflux; refolded; refolding; reforest; reforestation; reformado; reformation; reformations; reformative; reformatories
  1. This reinforcement enabled Gardannes and Chamberlhac to reform their lines parallel to the enemy, who had now debouched, through Marengo, to the right and also to the left of the village.

  2. Besides, his reform was a total one--a vast political reform by the substitution of a republican government for a monarchical one.

  3. We will admit that the Company was founded upon a philanthropic basis, to re-establish the balance of fortunes, redress the whims of chance and reform the abuses of society.

  4. It will be mended, and a reform of English Government will produce good to the Irish.

  5. No student of English political history before the Reform Bill can regard his apprehensions of a great catastrophe as ill-founded.

  6. We find here the same method of advancing reform by peaceable associations as in Ireland.

  7. Caius Gracchus had thought out a great plan of reform that, if carried through, might have saved Rome and Italy from revolution and civil war.

  8. Drusus got his Bill for the reform of the law courts through (91) in spite of the moneyed men, since he proposed that the judges should be partly chosen from the Senate, and a strong body of senators backed this up.

  9. A big programme of land reform was passed through.

  10. And besides these great tasks there were lesser ones--the reform of the calendar, of the system of weights and measures, of the language.

  11. As it was, the senators breathed with relief that Caius had followed his brother to a bloody grave; they did not see that those who opposed reform were preparing the way for revolution and civil war.

  12. He had served as Consul-General in a West African State, was a member of the Reform and the Devonshire, was a convinced Liberal, and had a wonderfully good connection.

  13. Beneath the first picture of Disraeli was inscribed: “He educated his party, and dished the Whigs to pass Reform, but to have become what he is from what he was is the greatest reform of all.

  14. He was a member of the Reform Club before he had ever seen Pall Mall.

  15. I took leave to remind her that it was the duty of a respectable person, like herself, to reform scamps; I also mentioned that I was going away, and she would be master and mistress too on my small property.

  16. Even if his visions of success, even if his purposes of reform (how hopeless at his age!

  17. Special attention, as has been described under the "Criminal Reform Department," will be paid to first offenders.

  18. It is not for me to attempt any reform of our School system on this model.

  19. At present there seems to be but little likelihood of any real reform in the interior of our prisons.

  20. The repeal of an unjust law is seldom carried until a certain number of those who are labouring for the reform have experienced in their own persons the hardships of fine and imprisonment.

  21. Count Rumford, wise and just, sets himself to reform the whole class of beggars and vagabonds, and convert them into useful citizens, even those who had sunk into vice and crime.

  22. The question of Prison Reform is all the more important because it is only by the agency of the Gaol that Society attempts to deal with its hopeless cases.

  23. Then came up Christian, and said to his brother, I told you how it would happen; your words and his lusts could not agree; he had rather leave your company than reform his life.

  24. His pretended repentings and promises of reform when death grimly stares at him, CHAP.

  25. While the church endeavours to remain pure, its aim and object should be mainly to correct and reform the offender, that his spirit may be saved.

  26. This represents the folly of those who go about to reform the manners, without aiming at the conversion of the heart.

  27. But Paul told him how penitent they had been, that Tom had promised to reform his life, and he thought they had already been severely punished for their misconduct by the terrors of the long and anxious night they had passed through.

  28. I don't care what you say, Frank; if it is in my power to reform my life, I mean to do it.

  29. It is their interest, because a temperate reform is permanent, and because it has a principle of growth.

  30. A great part, therefore, of my idea of reform is meant to operate gradually: some benefits will come at a nearer, some at a more remote period.

  31. Another reform has since come upon the back of the first; and a pension having been assigned to these unhappy persons, in lieu of their hereditary lands, a new scheme of economy has taken place, and deprived them of that pension.

  32. I have therefore not attempted to reform any of the offices of honor about the king's person.

  33. Even the attempt you have made to inquire into their practices and to reform abuses has raised and piqued them to a far more regular and steady support.

  34. By means of this part of the reform will fall the expensive office of surveyor-general, with all the influence that attends it.

  35. For a reform of this office, I propose to restore things to what (all considerations taken together) is their natural order: to restore them to their just proportion, and to their just distribution.

  36. The reform of the finances, joined to this reform of the court, gives to the public nine hundred thousand pounds a year, and upwards.

  37. Lord Talbot attempted to reform the kitchen; but such, as he well observed, is the consequence of having duty done by one person whilst another enjoys the emoluments, that he found himself frustrated in all his designs.

  38. The first pledge he must give of his sincerity in this great reform will be in the confidence which ought to be reposed in those names.

  39. The mere time of the reform is by no means worth the sacrifice of a principle of law.

  40. Instead of "He belongs to the Reform Club," say "He is a member of the Reform Club.

  41. The following seven receipts are due to the inventive genius of the late Alexis Soyer, who at one time was chief cook of the Reform Club: 1131.

  42. Unhappily the beneficent reform stopped half-way, and here Germany was less fortunate than France.

  43. The proposed reform was vindicated as practical and valuable, first by witnesses before the Parliamentary Committee, and then in Parliamentary debate.

  44. Such was the great reform by which the Post-Office became an evangel of civilization; but all this may be ours.

  45. The great reform of Rowland Hill encountered the same objection.

  46. Thus, after inquiry and debate lasting for three years, this great reform was accomplished, and the English Post-Office assumed an unprecedented character.

  47. A leading advocate for the repeal of the Corn Laws gave it as his opinion that this reform must have waited but for penny postage,--that through this ally it reached its triumph two years earlier than it otherwise could have done.

  48. But nobody showed more comprehension of the moral ground for this reform than Mr. Jones Loyd, the eminent banker and economist, afterwards Lord Overstone.

  49. A course of anti-scorbutics will reform their morals, and make good negroes out of worthless ones.

  50. Such is the argument of one who seeks to enlighten the South and reform its institutions!

  51. The Reformation was not, as its opponents contend, the result of accident or intrigue; nor was it, as its upholders contend, the outcome of a simple desire for the reform of abuses.

  52. He declared that it was necessary to curb or reform the House of Lords before social justice measures, such as this insurance act, legislation for old age pensions, etc.

  53. Again later, when the free coinage of silver became a topic of prominence, the Reform Club of New York invited him to attend a banquet at which this question was to be discussed.

  54. He explained that Lord Cromer's administration covered the period of national improvements, such as the reform of taxes, and the building of railways and irrigation works; and that now had come the desire for political changes.

  55. Keiley was serving as one of the American judges of the Mixed or Reform Tribunal at Cairo and was highly respected for his ability at this international court.

  56. The conference gave a distinct impetus to primary reform all over the country, and in many of the States led to the passage of laws providing for such reforms.

  57. In politics I had become more impressed year by year with the importance of a reform in our electoral system, especially in our large cities.

  58. The value of this reform is felt in every household throughout the kingdom, but its extent will be well shown by the extraction of some figures from a return which has just been made to the House of Commons.

  59. The actual benefits, however, of this prodigious reform extend far beyond those immediately represented in the figures we have given.

  60. In this position he displayed incessant activity, and a desire for broad and liberal reform which aroused the bitter hostility of the clerical party.

  61. The use of the term "dumping" in the economics of international trade has come into prominence in the tariff reform controversy in the United Kingdom.

  62. Parliamentary reform was in the forefront of the new government's policy, and with this question no statesman except Lord Grey himself was more closely indentified than Durham.

  63. By the Reform Act of 1832 the county returned two members for two divisions, and the boroughs of Gateshead, South Shields and Sunderland acquired representation.

  64. Full justice has not generally been done to the leading part played by Lord Durham in preparing the great Reform Act.

  65. Therefore to reform the army according to some such plan as has been here proposed is the first step in that national revival which is the one thing needful for England, and if that step be taken the rest will follow of itself.

  66. Spain an account of Luther's proclamation against indulgences, together with an acknowledgment that reform was needed in the Church.

  67. His teaching was a defence of Wicliff, and the reform of the Church, and for this he was excommunicated.

  68. They must nab every suppressed desire and send it to the reform school for re-education into something beautiful and serviceable.

  69. It aspires only to disencumber the route before the march of truth, to prepare the mind, to reform public opinion, to blunt dangerous tools in improper hands.

  70. On the other hand, several have distinguished themselves recently by joining the Reform Party in Turkey, known as Young Turks, who overthrew Sultan Hamid, and introduced the Constitution.

  71. Turkey is now doing its best to reform itself, and we wish it all success, but naturally, after so many years of misrule and corruption, it will take time before the Turks can set their house in proper order.

  72. But the government is radically bad, and its members, who are all alive to its defects, have neither the wisdom nor the courage to reform it.

  73. He began to think a real reform of Turkey possible.

  74. Andronicus, though the vilest of men, had made a serious effort to reform the administration and reduce the influence of the nobles.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reform" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodate; accommodation; adapt; adaptation; adjust; adjustment; advance; alter; alteration; ameliorate; amelioration; amend; amendment; apologize; apostasy; better; betterment; bleach; boost; break; change; civilize; clean; cleanse; conversion; convert; correct; defection; deform; degeneration; deterioration; deviation; difference; discontinuity; divergence; diversification; diversify; diversion; diversity; dust; edify; educate; elevate; emend; enhance; enlighten; enrich; expurgate; extremism; fatten; favor; fit; fitting; forward; freshen; improve; improvement; lard; lift; meliorate; mend; mitigate; mitigation; modification; modify; modulate; modulation; nurture; overthrow; promote; purge; purify; qualification; qualify; radicalism; raise; realignment; rebirth; rebuild; reclaim; reclamation; reconstitute; reconstruct; recrudescence; recruit; redeem; redemption; reenact; reestablish; refill; refine; reform; reformation; regenerate; regeneration; rehabilitate; reinstate; remake; remaking; remedy; remodel; renascence; renew; renewal; replace; replenish; reshape; restore; restructure; return; reversal; revival; revive; revolution; revolutionize; save; shift; socialize; straighten; subvert; sweeten; switch; tidy; transfigure; transform; transformation; transition; turn; upgrade; upheaval; uplift; variation; variety; vary; whiten; wipe; worsen; worsening