Reforms
[,rɪ'fɔrm]
Examples
- I began to feel the force of Mr. John Hobson's remark that if practical workers for social and industrial reforms continue to ignore principles . Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But also he may sometimes be stirred by adverse circumstances to such a degree that he rises up against them and reforms them. Plato. The Republic.
- People nowadays were too busy--busy with reforms and movements, with fads and fetishes and frivolities--to bother much about their neighbours. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- This supplies us with a standard for judging reforms, and so makes clear what constructive action really is. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The underlying tone of it is that society is made by man for man's uses, that reforms are inventions to be applied when by experiment they show their civilizing value. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- You read glowing articles in magazines about preachers who devote their time to housing reforms, milk supplies, the purging of the civil service. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is not the specific reforms that I wish to emphasize but the great possibilities they foreshadow. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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