Lucullus endeavored to work reforms in the administration of provincial governments in the East.
Mention tworeforms or measures favored by the Gracchi.
Places of amusement were closed; the people were forced to perform military duty; disturbers of the public safety were put to death; and other reforms were made which the dangers of the situation seemed to demand.
The pupil will notice the similarity between these reforms of Tullius and those of Solon of Athens, who lived about the same time.
There was one called Saxton at a mine, who spent a good deal of one afternoon telling us about the reforms that ought to be made in the administration of this province, and which I fancy he intended to effect.
But no political reforms which the king had promised were effected during the life of Frederick William III.
These great reforms were chiefly to be traced to Stein, although Hardenberg and others, like Schön and Niebuhr, had a hand in them.
To all the reforms advocated by Italian statesmen the Pope, whatever his name, has remained consistently inflexible.
The members most active in these reforms were Lord Althorp, Daniel O'Connell, Joseph Hume, and William Cobbett.
He was a frank, patriotic, and unconventional king, who accepted the reforms which made his reign an epoch.
He persistently opposed the Reform Bill in all its stages; but when it was finally passed, he accepted it as unmistakably the will of the nation, and even advocated many of the reforms which grew out of it.
He desiredreforms to be carried on moderately and wisely.
In England reforms have been effected only by appeals to reason and intelligence, and not by violence.
There was little or no opposition to reforms which did not interfere with landed interests and the affairs of Ireland.
The final issue of the war confirmed the justice and the wisdom of the reforms planned by the Gracchi and by Livius Drusus.
All other reforms must follow it; the defects of the church must be removed; and, especially, there must be a free trade in corn.
They were told that a series of gigantic reforms was necessary in order to restore Russia to her proper place among the nations; and to this they could make no answer, for they had never studied such abstract questions.
The reader who has heard of the gigantic reforms that have been repeatedly imposed on Russia by a paternal Government may naturally be astonished to learn that the roads are still in such a disgraceful condition.
By the administrative reforms which have since taken place, any little significance which the provincial corporations may have possessed has been annihilated.
At the time of the reforms the introduction of the jury into the judicial organisation awakened among the educated classes a great amount of sentimental enthusiasm.
On that day the Emperor signed an ukaz in which he enumerated the reforms which he considered most urgent, and instructed the Committee of Ministers to prepare the requisite legislation.
Other reforms which he advocated and which have since been carried out were an annual statement on education, and the examination of candidates for the civil service and army.
Nehemiah reviews his past conduct as governor, turns aside to economic reforms and scarcely falls within the fifty-two days of the building of the walls.
He instituted several needed reforms in the treatment of patients.
These reformswere conducted by the archbishops, bishops, priests, and deacons and laity, i.
But all reforms require deliberation, endurance, and perseverance.
Reforms are necessary primarily to enable the Russian bourgeoisie to win the war.
It became evident that the Russian state would never grant reforms of its own free will.
The starting point will be the reforms enumerated in our so-called minimum program.
One of the reforms that seem inevitable is that one man shall be responsible for the boats, their manning, loading and lowering, leaving the captain free to be on the bridge to the last moment.
His best actions are exciting against him a host of enemies, particularly the reduction of the pensions, and reforms in other branches of economy.
I confess, I do not go as far in the reforms thought necessary, as some of my correspondents in America; but if the convention should adopt such propositions, I shall suppose them necessary.
The phenomenal success of many reforms in Japan may easily be traced to the national sensitiveness to foreign criticism.
Benefits however great, reforms however wise, are sure to be considered an impertinence by some.
With the rising of the general tide of misery it changed in character, and fell into the control of a band of restless spirits led by Wolfe Tone, who maintained that since constitutional reforms had failed, force must be their resort.
He held his own life cheap, in comparison with the great reforms that he had at heart.
While these important reforms were going on in the interior of the monarchy, it experienced a greater change in its external condition by the immense augmentation of its territory.
During the reforms introduced into the religious houses, she visited the nunneries in person, taking her needle-work with her, and passing the day in the society of the inmates.
By young Germany he meant all the young German minds that had broken with tradition in art, church, state, and society, and were devoting their literary talents to the furtherance of the reforms which they felt to be imperative.
His genius and his patriotism found opportunity in the squalid Bow Street Court-room for advocating reforms as yet untouched by the slow hand of the professional philanthropist.
It was the effect which this unexpected blow had upon the strong military insight of the Cromwellian Government that led to those famous reforms which made this winter so memorable a landmark in British naval history.
The reforms of the great First Lord amounted in fact to a clearly apprehended threefold constitution, in which the various groups were frankly specialised in accordance with the functions each was expected to perform.
But most pregnant of all Anson's reforms was the introduction of the true cruiser, no longer a small battleship, but a vessel specialised for its logical functions, and distinct in design both from the battle rates and the flotilla.
The growth of organizations which are directed by women, wholly or chiefly devoted to reforms in civic conditions, has been paralleled by hardly any popular movement of recent years.
Many remedies have been suggested, many reforms have been inaugurated with the purpose of relieving the poverty and misery which press so heavily upon a large majority of the people.
And so the manyreforms are advocated, all of which are discussed with more or less fairness.
On the other hand, the Japanese government declared that the Tong-Hak movement was a natural result of the prevailing misgovernment, and could not be overcome unless radical reforms were carried out.
The Mins, who controlled the government, declared that the Japanese troops must be withdrawn before the reforms could be instituted.
But Taitsong, on the theory that in time of peace we should prepare for war, went on with his reforms regardless of their cited precedents.
We have no cause to be ashamed of the history of Trades' Unions; their object was to demand a living wage for work performed, and also for gaining social and political reforms all along the line.
In some cases they clearly are not, in others they may be; and as the balance of opinion inclines in the direction of public ownership, other reforms will doubtless be undertaken.
Reforms in this direction at the outset had to come largely from sympathetic observers.
Sidenote: Suggested reforms of the bank-note system] Along with the discussion of the currency has gone, since 1896, a vigorous discussion of the banking system.
Various social reforms propose simply the extreme application of one kind to the exclusion of the others.
And it was clearly impossible that the great and humane reforms in this field could have taken place before the decisive decay of theology.
These customs were probably due to the influence of the reformsinstituted by Chrodegang of Metz.
Confining ourselves to the reforms that were connected with the intellectual activities of the monastery, we note that manual labour, in its literal sense, became practically non-existent.
It has been suggested that the reforms attributed to Alcuin owed little to his individual genius, but were based entirely upon the practice he found in operation in York.
Apart from the education, in the technical sense of the word, given by the monks, they were also responsible for reforms which, in the wider sense of the term, were also educational.
Reference should be made here to the reforms effected at Cluny--a Benedictine monastery--in the second half of the eleventh century.
In this roundabout way certain reforms may be providentially forced upon the nations by the war.
Certain social reforms are being hastened by the war.
If the reforms he decreed were not all carried out, the blame must be laid to the door of those appointed to enforce them.
Arnold of Brescia busied himself more with questions of discipline than with dogma; the only reforms he advocated were social reforms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reforms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
