Throughout American history, reformers and radicals have addressed social problems through civil disobedience and non-violent resistance. |
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Throughout our nation's history, radicals and reformers have viewed their movements as profoundly patriotic. |
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Many times, he told me, reformers rejected a compromise as a bridge too far. |
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The very fact that welfare reformers are reduced to bribing, cajoling and guilt-tripping people into marriage should tell us something. |
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The initial goal of the reformers was to achieve greater economic efficiency through the rapid privatization of all state-owned assets. |
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Some reformers argue that the city should go further and completely deregulate the market, allowing anyone with a car to pick up passengers. |
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Those who opposed reform of any kind caricatured the reformers as anarchic democrats. |
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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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Behaviorism, emphasizing the primacy of environment over instincts, held special appeal for reformers. |
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He then throws down the gauntlet by challenging educational reformers to come up with suitable new methods of teaching morality. |
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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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It is even more intolerantly communal in its attitude to the prophets and reformers within its own fold. |
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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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This latest round of cultural subversion fatally compromised Wall Street's ability to hold its own against New Deal reformers. |
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In New York his society was composed of free elements altogether, come-outers, reformers, radicals of every description. |
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At the same time without being immodest, I would say we are the original reformers and nobody can take that away from us. |
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Much too far by their own reckoning but not far enough in the eyes of ardent nationalists and radical land reformers like Davitt and his cohorts. |
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He even wanted to codify the common law, overstating, like all good reformers, the possible objectives of reform. |
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The bill is also good for entrepreneurs, reformers say, because small businesses often get swept up as co-defendants in class-action suits. |
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On the other hand, it was one reason why Chadwick and other reformers wanted to have more centralized control. |
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For reformers all along the rhetorical spectrum, red-light districts were the strongholds of organized vice. |
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More's oblique criticism of the extravagance of the Henrician court became a blueprint for social reformers. |
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The tendency among reformers to regard women as mothers and helpmeets rather than workers had several consequences for American labor reform. |
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At nineteenth-century Oxford, as is well known, liberal university reformers mobilized under the banner of a secular Hellenism. |
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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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It has made things more difficult for the reformers, boosting the hardliners and causing division and disturbances in the capital Tehran. |
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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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Immigration reformers saw this program as a stepping stone to drastically overhauling our current immigration policy. |
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In astronomy Thabit was one of the first reformers of the Ptolemaic system, and in mechanics he was a founder of statics. |
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This commingling is seen by many reformers as a grotesque reduction to the base material level of human corporeality. |
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Conservatives challenge reformers, the government and opposition quarrel but agree on snubbing outsiders when the latter call for reform. |
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Some reformers are simply unsympathetic to the clash of ideas and interests that is inseparable from democratic politics. |
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It is not easy to trace the motives of the reformers or their inheritors as they gradually set at naught large elements of symbol in worship. |
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Not surprisingly, Protestant reformers later rejected that move as hopelessly unscriptural. |
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The novel describes vividly how reformers, do-gooders and slummers all beat a path to Southwark. |
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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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The reformers had been at work in the period 1807-13, drumming up the patriotic spirit of the people. |
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Because of its concern with imminent change, millenarianism appealed to radical reformers and could be secularized into utopianism. |
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Together, maids and social reformers began to call for a restructuring of domestic service. |
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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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However they might differ on other issues, all the reformers vigorously defended the honourable estate of matrimony. |
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Urban reformers had closed the segregated districts in over eighty cities, including the entrenched tenderloins. |
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He took the lead in offering major concessions to municipal reformers in a desperate effort to prevent a complete rout. |
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Female saints were also represented as visionaries, martyrs, and reformers. |
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We need creative builders, not mere reformers or rejectionists, in order to build something new. |
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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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Genuine reformers will look to teachers and teacher organizations as their allies. |
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The Queen's mingling of the old and new religions perturbed reformers and conservatives alike. |
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Many of the political reformers with whom the artist felt instinctive sympathy supported the French. |
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The common thread is that all three are pro-western, liberal economic reformers. |
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The only provision made by Calvinist reformers for music in worship was simple metrical psalm settings. |
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Progressive reformers focused public attention in particular on low-income children. |
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For rank-and-file Democrats, reformers and Republicans were kissing cousins. |
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In 1990 Kyrgyz reformers picked a physicist essentially out of obscurity to run their country. |
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Neither anti-vice reformers nor white slavery activists particularly wanted to save the white slave. |
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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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Those people are virtually by definition liberals and reformers and radicals. |
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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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For the recalcitrant, reformers might propose a variety of modest steps. |
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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 respectable reformers, meanwhile, know how rare a chance 2016 is to decisively shape our national affairs. |
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Under Deng Xiaoping, the reformers slowly regained control of the country. |
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And as already mentioned, the reformers in Russia and some other former Soviet republics sought to reverse the decentralizing reforms of Gorbachev's perestroika. |
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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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It unites clerics and revolutionaries, monks and social reformers. |
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He won a fiercely dedicated following of young Chicano and Anglo organizers and the support of Hollywood celebrities, political luminaries, and social reformers. |
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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 was not until 1825 that Benthamite reformers founded the university. |
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Originally this cake belonged to Twelfth Night but moved to the secular festival of New Year when religious reformers banned Christmas as a festival. |
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The old bulls sensed the cnunbling of their position and vainly tried to placate the reformers. |
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When I questioned one member about this, he suggested that was because the committee knew the reformers well, while the landowners were an unknown quantity. |
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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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These men were the progressives and social reformers of their day. |
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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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And even though the establishment has won a series of contests, the ranks of the reformers are slowly swelling. |
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For reformers like Senator Gillibrand, though, the problem is deeper that and can only be solved by a fundamental shift in policy. |
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As bad as the assaults themselves are, they are only part of the problem targeted by reformers. |
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He demonstrated that hereditarianism and environmentalism were not different and opposed traditions in the minds of many Australian social reformers. |
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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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The reformers reacted against the clerical abuse of power, and rightly so. |
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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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Feminist reformers also challenged coverture by invoking equality. |
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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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With increasing court backlogs, it was clear to many law reformers and politicians that serious reform was needed. |
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There was also a growing party of reformers who were imbued with the Calvinistic, Lutheran and Zwinglian doctrines now current on the Continent. |
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The Protestant reformers were unanimous in agreement and this understanding of prophecy furnished importance to their deeds. |
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The reformers saw these practices as evidence of the systemic corruption of the Church's hierarchy, which included the pope. |
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He was a member of the Coefficients dining club of social reformers set up in 1902 by the Fabian campaigners Sidney and Beatrice Webb. |
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By 1807 he supported reformers such as Francis Burdett and John Cartwright. |
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Only when Basel's reformers turned to iconoclasm in the later 1520s did his freedom and income as a religious artist suffer. |
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Sinhalese Buddhist reformers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries portrayed the Pali Canon as the original version of scripture. |
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Calvin was invited to lead a church of French refugees in Strasbourg by that city's leading reformers, Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito. |
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At the same time, Calvin was dismayed by the lack of unity among the reformers. |
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The term has also more recently been used by Hindu leaders, reformers, and nationalists to refer to Hinduism as a unified world religion. |
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He often cited the Church Fathers in order to defend the reformed cause against the charge that the reformers were creating new theology. |
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He denied the papal claim to primacy and the accusation that the reformers were schismatic. |
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The pope proceeded to open the Council of Trent, which resulted in decrees against the reformers. |
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Meanwhile, Zwingli's ideas came to the attention of Martin Luther and other reformers. |
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Grebel, Manz, and Blaurock defended their cause before Zwingli, Jud, and other reformers. |
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His position in regard to the Eucharist is naturally more mature than that of the first reformers. |
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Influenced by early church reformers such as George Wishart, he joined the movement to reform the Scottish church. |
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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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Addressing the education of priests had been a fundamental focus of the humanist reformers in the past. |
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Consequently, reformers have emphasised the need to assess residential tenancy laws in terms of protection they provide to tenants. |
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Supporters included attorneys, social workers, and reformers with whom he had worked on cases, and they testified eagerly in his behalf. |
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As a result of the efforts of reformers such as John Knox, a Protestant ascendancy was established. |
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Historians before the 1940s argued that moralistic reformers such as William Wilberforce were primarily responsible. |
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It was a reaction against a perceived decline in standards that the reformers associated with machinery and factory production. |
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The Tsarists adapted Cyrillic to the needs of the dialects of their vast empire while reformers backed Arabic or Latin script. |
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Owen attempted to gain support for his socialist vision among American thinkers, reformers, intellectuals, and public statesmen. |
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Also he was a close friend and correspondent of Philip Melanchthon, one of the principal Lutheran reformers. |
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In his early years Davy was optimistic about reconciling the reformers and the Banksians. |
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Governments and reformers argued that labour in factories must be regulated and the state had an obligation to provide welfare for poor. |
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The influence of the farming bloc declined, and with it, reformers were emboldened. |
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After 1848, as the movement faded, its demands appeared less threatening and were gradually enacted by other reformers. |
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Because punishment does so little to deter chemical addiction, liberal reformers usually prefer detox centers and twelve-step programs. |
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Printing was censored and leading Protestant reformers such as John Calvin were forced into exile. |
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Progressive reformers worried about the occupational hazards to which young workers were exposed. |
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The mass deportation of nationalists to the Marianas and Europe in 1872 led to a Filipino expatriate community of reformers in Europe. |
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Karl Marx, on the other hand, opposed piecemeal reforms advanced by middle class reformers out of a sense of duty. |
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There will be unintended consequences for Corporate America if reformers overreact and radically change the way companies govern themselves. |
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Parliament began to enact repressive legislation in order to silence the reformers. |
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In August he set off for Strasbourg, a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire and a refuge for reformers. |
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It became known internationally as the Protestant Rome, being base for such reformers as Theodore Beza or William Farel. |
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It became a particular focus of critique for reformers campaigning against the use of imprisonment for children, most notably Mary Carpenter. |
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James I fulfilled the efforts of Protestant reformers who had been supporting the distribution of Bibles in common language for decades. |
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The work was an apologia or defense of his faith and a statement of the doctrinal position of the reformers. |
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Leading reformers and philosophers of the time, such as Wycliffe, helped establish these doctrines by preaching to large groups of people. |
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Word of the Protestant reformers reached Italy in the 1520s, but never caught on. |
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In March 1259, he entered into a formal alliance with one of the main reformers, Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. |
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The reformers, however, were quickly labelled as radicals and as associates of the French revolutionaries. |
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The party of William Sprigge and Robert Wood, the educational reformers, was not a force for emollience. |
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Though his proposal failed, many reformers in Parliament came to regard him as their leader, instead of Charles James Fox. |
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Under huge pressure, Edward agreed to the proposal and the Ordainers were elected, broadly evenly split between reformers and conservatives. |
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Knox, however, modified its use to accord with the doctrinal emphases of the Continental reformers. |
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He also exchanged cordial and supportive letters with many reformers, including Philipp Melanchthon and Heinrich Bullinger. |
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They found this in the teaching of the Protestant reformers such as Martin Luther. |
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Social reformers, doctors and eugenists documented the harm they believed wage-earning mothers inflicted on babies and children. |
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Now Villaraigosa, frustrated that the current board has used the courts to tie up his reform plan, is trying the same strategy by bankrolling a slate of reformers. |
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One of the reformers, Nicolas Cop, was rector of the university. |
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Though the Church's practices and approach to the sacraments became strongly influenced by those of continental reformers, it nevertheless retained episcopal church structure. |
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Though argued from scripture, and hence logically consequent to sola scriptura, this is the guiding principle of the work of Luther and the later reformers. |
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The humanist concern with widening education was shared by the Protestant reformers, with a desire for a godly people replacing the aim of having educated citizens. |
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However, many of these measures were opposed by the conservatives of the Qing Court, and many reformers were either imprisoned or executed outright. |
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Child abduction is this year's barmiest target for reformers. |
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The Calvinism of the reformers led by Knox resulted in a settlement that adopted a Presbyterian system and rejected most of the elaborate trappings of the Medieval church. |
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Reformed churches were founded in Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Scotland, Switzerland and France by such reformers as John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, and John Knox. |
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This happened first at the Old Minster in Winchester, before the reformers built new foundations and refoundations at Thorney, Peterborough, and Ely, among other places. |
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In 2009, the king made significant personnel changes to the government by appointing reformers to key positions and the first woman to a ministerial post. |
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He points out that the debates on the 1832 Reform Bill showed that reformers would indeed receive a hearing at parliamentary level with a good chance of success. |
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This created polarisation between the communities and a dramatic reduction in reformers among Protestants, many of whom had been growing more receptive to democratic reform. |
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However, the reformers of Manchester were themselves factionalized. |
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Select groups which the Raj reformers wanted to monitor statistically included those reputed to practice female infanticide, prostitutes, lepers, and eunuchs. |
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Some reformers and sociologists, though the majority stuck by the older internationalist ethicalities, began to adopt imperialist and group Social Darwinist views. |
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Some Indian reformers, such as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, even offered money to men who would take widows as brides, but these men often deserted their new wives. |
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During her reign, reformers of the church, such as Thomas Hawkes, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, Thomas Cranmer, and George Wishart, were executed for their faith. |
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Calvin's views regarding the heliocentric theory of Copernicus have provided much controversy and fodder for the claim of anti-science on the part of the reformers. |
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Edward also invoked Magna Carta in advancing his cause, arguing that the reformers had taken matters too far and were themselves acting against Magna Carta. |
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It is not too much to say that an antiknowledge attitude is the defining element in the worldview of many early-childhood educators and reformers. |
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The names include some of the moderate reformers, notably Archbishop Stephen Langton, and some of John's loyal supporters, such as William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. |
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Syriza's own origins can be found in Eurocommunism and the split that took place in 1968 in the Greek Communist Party between reformers and orthodox Communists. |
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At first his body lay in state, but since so many people came to see it, the reformers were afraid that they would be accused of fostering a new saint's cult. |
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Although Frederick initially pledged to persecute Lutherans, he soon adopted a policy of protecting Lutheran preachers and reformers, the most significant being Hans Tausen. |
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The reformation was an attempt to eliminate certain practices prevalent in the Malankara Church which the reformers believed were brought about after the Synod of Diamper. |
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The British and social reformers like Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar were instrumental in outlawing such customs by getting reforms passed through legislative processes. |
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In some cases, this resulted in traditionalist legal reform, while other countries witnessed juridical reinterpretation of sharia advocated by progressive reformers. |
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In 1793, he was elected as a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, where the ideas of reformers and philosophers of the Enlightenment were discussed. |
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Social reformers, statesmen, and royals, including the future Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, visited New Lanark to study its operations and educational methods. |
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Davy was only 41, and reformers were fearful of another long presidency. |
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What's the matter with Roosevelt and his Plan? All the other reformers have them on the pan. Fattened them up with printer's ink. Then handed them the rinky dink. |
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There are two hundred and eighty men, perhaps more, in that body, as honest, straightforward, singlehearted reformers as ever were assembled within four walls. |
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It tells the story of reformers and ordinary people who struggled to free themselves from Jim Crowism and its effects before, during, and after the Great War. |
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