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reform
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a reform programme
▪ After the elections, they embarked on an ambitious reform programme.
call for reform
▪ The Church has called for reform of the law.
constitutional reform/change/amendment
▪ a proposal for constitutional reform
economic reform (=a set of changes made to an economy in order to improve it)
▪ The government agreed to a programme of economic reform.
education reform (=changes that a government makes to the education system in a country)
▪ the government’s programme of education reform
electoral reform
▪ a campaign for electoral reform
far-reaching reforms/proposals/changes
▪ The country carried out far-reaching reforms to modernize its economy.
land reform
modernize/reform a system
▪ We need to reform the electoral system.
radical reform (=big changes to a system or organization in order to improve it)
▪ He said the institution was in need of radical reform.
reform school
▪ If you’re not careful, you’ll end up in reform school.
sweeping changes/cuts/reforms etc
▪ They want to make sweeping changes to education policies.
the pace of reform
▪ Some senior party figures favor a slower pace of reform.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
economy
▪ The failure of the ruling Socialist Party to reform the economy has plunged the country into disaster.
▪ As for reforming and rebuilding the economy, Hashimoto divided the remaining five years this century into three stages.
law
▪ Bills promoted both by backbenchers and ministers to reform the law have been unsuccessful.
▪ Kennedy is one of the combatants in the Congressional struggle to reform federal law covering both illegal and legal immigrants.
▪ The Government brought forward proposals in 1986 to reform the shopping laws, but Parliament was not able to agree a conclusion.
▪ Congress rarely reforms bad laws by eliminating them.
▪ For some time we have been promised legislation to reform the laws on friendly societies.
▪ For more than four years, President Clinton has talked about reforming campaign finance laws.
▪ There is urgent need to reform the law relating to damages in libel actions.
▪ We will reform company law to require greater disclosure of information such as expenditure on research and development.
need
▪ Action was also held back by the need to reform local finance which both Reports recommended.
▪ He also sees the need to reform the electoral system to clean up the political system.
▪ Most are agreed on the need to reform the welfare state, but that's unlikely to happen in the forseeable future.
plan
▪ But it was perhaps nothing compared with the hostility he faced over his plans to reform the legal profession.
system
▪ The government had made serious proposals during 1988 about reforming the graduate assignment system because of its glaring inefficiencies.
▪ We will never reform the justice system until we are prepared to acknowledge its fundamental defects.
▪ Clinton has responded by stressing his support for reforming the current system.
▪ Mosley, the rebel with a cause, first tried to reform the system from within during the 1920s.
▪ So far, Democrats seem satisfied to reform the current system rather than pioneer a new course.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dogs that bite can be reformed with good training.
▪ Plans to reform the health care system have failed more than once.
▪ They reformed the voting system, and introduced a secret ballot.
▪ We are working to reform the nation's prisons.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is tough to reform something that is shapeless and indifferent to improvement, like Jell-O in the hands of a carpenter.
▪ Parliament will soon be asked to approve measures to reform education, health, the criminal justice system and welfare provision.
▪ The failure of the ruling Socialist Party to reform the economy has plunged the country into disaster.
▪ The White Paper marks a step change in our programme for reforming the public sector.
▪ Those countries that have made most headway in their reforming efforts are simply the precursors of the others.
▪ Voters also heavily endorsed a clause on the ballot paper calling for the convening of a constituent assembly to reform the Constitution.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
agrarian
▪ Other studies have showed that profiting from agrarian reform can be combined with a more radical political commitment.
▪ Those changes were further propelled by agrarian reform laws in the 1960s and 1970s.
▪ A rapid acceleration took place in the implementation of the agrarian reform.
▪ The difficulty with many agrarian reform programmes has been achieving both social justice and economic growth.
▪ The simple proposition behind all agrarian reform was that surplus land should be distributed to surplus labour.
▪ The agrarian reform units were dismantled, either by returning land to previous owners or distributing it to others.
▪ In order to achieve these goals, an agrarian reform programme should have three main elements.
constitutional
▪ An attempt to include such a ban sank the last effort at constitutional reform, made by Congress in 1989.
▪ Berlusconi wants a new broadly supported government to look into constitutional reforms.
▪ Sri Lanka's president, Chandrika Kumaratunga, has suspended parliament ahead of a referendum this month on constitutional reform.
▪ Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had argued in parliament in favor of a constitutional reform government.
▪ They might have to tackle constitutional and electoral reform.
▪ It is his task to try to involve black leaders in negotiations on constitutional reform.
▪ The widespread demands for constitutional reform and national unification were distorted and deflected rather than answered.
▪ Interest is now focused on how this might manifest itself in the government's promised rethink on constitutional reform.
democratic
▪ Two aspects of the shift in emphasis accorded to democratic reform need to be distinguished.
▪ The army, on the other hand, has remained largely neutral in the unprecedented fight to force democratic reform from Milosevic.
▪ Mr Tung must maintain momentum towards democratic reforms, increasing the number of directly elected representatives in the territory's legislature.
▪ Igor Rodionov, often described as a hardliner opposed to democratic reform.
▪ They press for much needed democratic reforms to enable the citizens to participate.
▪ The Maastricht summit gives us great opportunities for economic, social and democratic reform.
▪ He stressed that democratic reform could not be achieved overnight but would take time.
▪ But if there is a democratic vote for reform, the Secretary of State says that that is to be ignored.
economic
▪ To get that they have to adopt tough economic reforms devised by the Terrible Two.
▪ Others have taken advantage of economic reforms to demolish their homes and replace them with small hotels that cater to foreign tourists.
▪ The passage of measures of social and economic reform appeared to be meeting their needs.
▪ Even the left-wing parties that may yet form the government have a record of economic reform at state level.
▪ Its success depended upon a major economic reform and was not an alternative to one.
▪ The urban economic reforms had led to price increases in basic foodstuffs and the introduction of private enterprise in the university canteens.
▪ This was seen as part of an attempt by the government to widen economic reform to include democratization as well as liberalization.
educational
▪ The point of our educational reforms is to improve standards.
▪ He has worked with the heavily Democratic Legislature to pass educational reform.
▪ To regard them as a formal but irrelevant accoutrement of educational reform would be a severe managerial mistake.
▪ Californians overwhelmingly favor the educational reforms that the state has embraced over the last few years, according to a new study.
▪ Mr MacGregor said that he would delay introducing the scheme because of the demands made on teachers by other educational reforms.
▪ Can class barriers be broken down by educational reform?
▪ Annan's activity in promoting widespread educational reform was considerable.
▪ In the sphere of educational reform the Republican-Socialist alliance moved swiftly.
electoral
▪ I am disappointed the policy review has adopted such a negative attitude both to a Bill of Rights and electoral reform.
▪ Mr Hashimoto has played it safe by taking a fuzzy stand on issues such as electoral reforms.
▪ Under a Labour government, this committee would become an official inquiry into electoral reform.
▪ Dini also laid out the accomplishments of his term in the areas of electoral reform and cuts in government spending.
▪ But his proposals for electoral reform, now moving ahead in fits and starts, contain no such provision.
▪ Yesterday's debate about electoral reform could provide the model.
▪ Mandelson is probably right when he argues that the sudden salience of electoral reform hurt.
legal
▪ If heroin use proves relatively harmless to all concerned then we should advocate legal reform and controlled availability.
▪ Consumer advocate Ralph Nader wrote to me recently to urge I abandon my advocacy of legal reforms.
▪ Despite some legal reforms important features of women's position remained unchanged.
▪ Businessbacked legal-reform initiatives have been hurt by the attention the budget has demanded from key committee chairmen.
▪ Leader comment, page 18 Critics tone down attacks on legal reform plans.
▪ They are the first tests of legal reforms introduced two months ago to allow judges' secrecy orders to be reviewed.
▪ The League campaigns for legal reform and provides funds for legal action against trespassing hunts and the purchase of sanctuaries.
major
▪ If we are to do better than just preserving a few isolated museum forests, then major land reform is essential.
▪ In the 1964 campaign he ran on a platform promising major social reforms at home and peace abroad.
▪ In 1983, a major reform programme was launched: the National Education System.
▪ The result has been that major reforms are completely avoided and every minor reform is weakened or sabotaged.
▪ This is clearly implicit in the major reforms introduced by President Gorbachev.
▪ In addition, there have been major reforms in state provisions for pensioners.
▪ Its success depended upon a major economic reform and was not an alternative to one.
▪ In a speech on March 30 Hammadi pledged that his government would introduce major democratic reforms.
political
▪ Maybe he might do the same on political reform.
▪ He does so by means of projects, life plans, theoretical systems, and ideals of political or social reform.
▪ Mr Hunt made a good effort to attract business to the state, but his political reforms floundered.
▪ Top of the agenda is political reform.
▪ It fed two contrary impulses, the demand for political and social reform, and the determination to avoid a blood-bath.
▪ Since December 1989 peaceful demonstrations have taken place in the capital, Ulan Bator, in support of political and economic reforms.
▪ Alongside demands for political reform were specific complaints about individual miscarriages of justice.
▪ While major political reforms had been secured, discontent remained among young supporters of the democracy movement.
radical
▪ Response to this criticism was a spate of reports and committees culminating in radical reform and reorganization of the system.
▪ It would take radical reform, a revolution, to change matters; but no one dreams of such a thing.
▪ Examples of radical reform, proposals for it and attempts to obtain it may be drawn from all parts of the globe.
▪ On the other hand, the argument for gender neutrality is less clear in the context of less radical reform.
▪ Yet Lang intends to go ahead with radical council reforms which local government does not want.
▪ The Communists and Socialists wanted a weak Presidency and a strong one-chamber parliament, able to push through radical reforms.
▪ No radical reform was undertaken of what should be taught, or how what was taught should be valued.
▪ Kossuth in turn endeavoured to create a much stronger popular nationalist alliance of classes on the basis of radical reforms.
social
▪ In an age of widespread agitation for social reform, the new concept only emphasised the social divisions.
▪ Their only saving grace is that they probably were an impetus towards social reform.
▪ Two of the social security reforms proved to be particularly controversial.
▪ He does so by means of projects, life plans, theoretical systems, and ideals of political or social reform.
▪ The Maastricht summit gives us great opportunities for economic, social and democratic reform.
▪ Discuss this view of the origins of the Liberal social reforms 1906-14. 2.
▪ In his years in Number 10, he showed limited interest in social or institutional reform.
▪ Their biographies provide us with access to the professional and class alliances which fed into the politics of mid-Victorian social reform.
■ NOUN
bill
▪ On March 19 it passed a regulatory reform bill, which is intended to lighten the weight of government on small businesses.
▪ He and the Democrats will get well, or try to, by clamoring for passage of the reform bill.
▪ The question is not whether a reform bill will pass but how strong it will be.
▪ In 1832 the first parliamentary reform bill was passed and Dundee was one of the new constituencies created by the Act.
▪ House Republicans are searching for a way to force Clinton to sign a welfare reform bill.
▪ On Aug. 10 the Chamber of Deputies approved a state reform bill on privatization.
▪ For example, the House leadership may put the Senate welfare reform bill up for a vote.
education
▪ I am sure also that, in the light of our education reforms, most children will eventually be able to do that calculation.
▪ Workshops on desegregation, education reform, military discrimination and rap music were packed, and discussion was lively.
▪ Governors are given a crucial role in the thrust of education reforms, but who has the time?
▪ But late that year, Governor Perpich decided he needed an education reform agenda.
▪ Examples include compulsory competitive tendering, the community charge, education reform, and community care.
▪ Several dimensions of reality, however, are generally omitted from most discussions of education reform.
▪ The exodus comes as governors acquire legal responsibilities for the running of schools as a result of the Government's education reforms.
▪ The parents are the problem, some members said, echoing the education reform movement of the moment in this country.
land
▪ And the land reform bypassed this problem altogether.
▪ The Communists have never published an official count of those killed in the land reform, but thousands died.
▪ Some land reforms have embraced soil conservation as a sine qua non of long term productivity gains by land reform beneficiaries.
▪ There was talk of land reform and demonstrations by peasants.
▪ One of the main aims of land reforms is increased food security; this often occurs, and is crucial for all.
▪ The agreement bound the country to a programme of land reform whose implementation would have cost billions of dollars.
▪ Fforde also establishes an important point by underlining the importance of land reform to late Victorian and Edwardian debates.
▪ In this part I find that land reform is at least not detrimental to production.
law
▪ A number of important social reforms have resulted from ballot bills such as abortion and divorce law reform.
▪ Before that law reform had been handled sporadically.
▪ His case has been taken up by Justice, the all- party law reform group.
▪ Gardiner's abiding interest in law reform changed the picture dramatically.
▪ The law reform parts of the Act were opportune and important.
▪ It seems that every few decades in this country we have a major battle over divorce law reform.
▪ Specifically a judge is chairman of the Law Commission which is the permanent body concerned with law reform.
legislation
▪ A number of members of Congress have begun talking about Social Security and introducing reform legislation.
▪ Clinton already has vetoed Republican-drafted welfare reform legislation twice.
▪ If the bill fails, it would be the fifth defeat in a decade for campaign finance reform legislation.
▪ In 1992, Dole voted against campaign finance reform legislation that passed Congress but that was vetoed by President Bush.
movement
▪ This is not the end of the reform movement, because it depends on society.
▪ My heart belongs to the reform movement.
▪ Ste Barbe's episcopal acta confirm his sympathy for the ethos of the Yorkshire monastic reform movement.
▪ Verne Johnson, another leader of the Minnesota reform movement, puts it well: I am not for laissez-faire.
▪ All religions have a history of reform movements which operate from within and are not imposed from without.
▪ The parents are the problem, some members said, echoing the education reform movement of the moment in this country.
▪ These are not the buzzwords of the legislated-excellence school reform movement.
proposal
▪ Although reform proposals have received little political support, the case for disability discrimination legislation has become increasingly compelling.
▪ John McCain, R-Ariz., co-sponsor of the most prominent reform proposal on the congressional docket.
▪ In July 1653 she published a set of reform proposals addressed to Barebone's Parliament.
▪ Lewis offered no reform proposals, saying that new regulations would lead to new ways to evade them.
▪ Whatever the merits of such reform proposals it is a mistake to see quangos as wholly self-contained.
▪ The president vetoed two reform proposals late last year.
▪ What is missing from the various reform proposals is any recognition of the importance of investing in human capital as well.
▪ The various reform proposals that Washington lawmakers will now consider seek to take advantage of those higher returns from stocks.
tax
▪ Others are much more interested in microeconomic questions, like tax reform, local-government finance and the role of subsidies and benefits.
▪ Weber said tax reform could have been a good issue for the Republicans this year.
▪ The subject of tax reform is a topic in its own right and can only be touched upon here.
▪ I came down on the side of tax reform.
▪ In the late 1980s the Conservative government increased the pace of its tax reform.
▪ But such concessions would undermine the very principles on which the case for tax reform is based.
▪ But he is also exploring various tax reforms that would reduce rates and simplify the system.
welfare
▪ In human terms, however, welfare reform is definitely risky.
▪ During the next three years, thousands of welfare families will be thrust into this low-income labor market because of welfare reform.
▪ But the most powerful aspect of Englerization is welfare reform.
▪ But it may be only the beginning as the political battle over welfare reform is about to be joined.
▪ Results: The health care effort collapsed, and welfare reform was postponed.
▪ Clinton already has vetoed Republican-drafted welfare reform legislation twice.
▪ But many of the same provisions remain in the welfare reform bill signed by President Clinton last month.
▪ Counties are also bracing for the brunt of federal welfare reform, expected to mark a significant loss of federal aid dollars.
■ VERB
implement
▪ Much will depend on how local managers and clinicians implement the reforms at local level.
▪ The center devoted itself to implementing the liturgical reform begun at the Second Vatican Council.
▪ The government had also faced criticism over its slowness in implementing economic reforms.
▪ Under the highly unpopular Videnov, the Socialist government resisted implementing economic reforms.
▪ Legislation to implement the reforms was to be presented to Legco in early 1993.
▪ Outdated computer systems and the failure to help judges to implement the reforms were adding to the chaos.
▪ In the interim, the Stock Exchange implemented piecemeal reform.
▪ It is unlikely that Boris Yeltsin would be implementing those reforms if we had jumped the gun, as the Opposition wanted.
introduce
▪ This study examines these contrasts in detail, at a period when the Stock Exchange in London is introducing great reforms.
▪ Though we have introduced reforms, disorder disturbs several areas.
▪ We have also introduced a reform which will give people more choice as to who represents them legally in court.
▪ A number of members of Congress have begun talking about Social Security and introducing reform legislation.
▪ Theoretically the government had greater leeway to introduce reforms to improve their conditions and increase their productivity.
▪ In a speech on March 30 Hammadi pledged that his government would introduce major democratic reforms.
▪ Less positively on property, the Chancellor introduced further reforms to capital gains tax.
▪ Therefore, I welcome the passages in the Gracious Speech that promise an asylum Bill to introduce these reforms.
pass
▪ On March 19 it passed a regulatory reform bill, which is intended to lighten the weight of government on small businesses.
▪ Why is it fair to pass piecemeal reforms for powerful industries?
▪ Illinois has passed tort reform, which has so far proved impossible to get through Congress in Washington.
▪ He has worked with the heavily Democratic Legislature to pass educational reform.
▪ Clinton reiterated Monday that the immediate solution is to pass the McCain-Feingold campaign reform bill.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Reforms in agriculture, although slow, are beginning to have an impact.
▪ Feminists sought legal reforms to ensure that women had genuinely equal opportunities.
▪ Tax reforms did not benefit the middle class.
▪ the reform of local government
▪ The revival in the island's economy has come about because of radical reforms introduced over the past three years.
▪ The Socialists have promised a programme of radical political and economic reform.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All of this may help to explain why I support with passion the reforms proposed by David Blunkett earlier this week.
▪ Clinton repeated his call, made in his first inaugural address in 1993, for political reform.
▪ Examples of radical reform, proposals for it and attempts to obtain it may be drawn from all parts of the globe.
▪ The ability of party leaders to manipulate the nomination process had been substantially undercut, however, by party reform.
▪ The army, on the other hand, has remained largely neutral in the unprecedented fight to force democratic reform from Milosevic.
▪ These protections addressed issues ranging from the death penalty and homosexual rights to term limits, campaign-finance reform, and congressional redistricting.
▪ They pushed an agenda to reverse recent academic reforms and give students more power within the university administration.
▪ This is not the end of the reform movement, because it depends on society.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reform

Reform \Re*form"\ (r?*f?rm"), v. t. [F. r['e]former, L. reformare; pref. re- re- + formare to form, from forma form. See Form.] To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
--Swift.

Syn: To amend; correct; emend; rectify; mend; repair; better; improve; restore; reclaim.

Reform

Reform \Re*form"\, v. i. To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.

Reform

Reform \Re*form"\, n. [F. r['e]forme.] Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.

Civil service reform. See under Civil.

Reform acts (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in 1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular representation in Parliament.

Reform school, a school established by a state or city government, for the confinement, instruction, and reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]

Syn: Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See Reformation.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reform

c.1300, "to convert into another and better form," from Old French reformer "rebuild, reconstruct, recreate" (12c.), from Latin reformare "to form again, change, transform, alter," from re- "again" (see re-) + formare "to form" (see form (n.)). Intransitive sense from 1580s.\n

\nMeaning "to bring (a person) away from an evil course of life" is recorded from early 15c.; of governments, institutions, etc., from early 15c. Related: Reformed; reforming. Reformed churches (1580s) usually are Calvinist as opposed to Lutheran. Reformed Judaism (1843) is a movement initiated in Germany by Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786). Reform school is attested from 1859.

reform

"any proceeding which brings back a better order of things," 1660s, from reform (v.) and in some uses from French réforme. As a branch of Judaism from 1843.

Wiktionary
reform

n. Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government. vb. 1 To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct. 2 To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a person of settled habits of vice will seldom reform. 3 (context transitive intransitive English) To form again or in a new configuration.

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WordNet
reform

  1. n. a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses; "justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts"

  2. a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices; "the reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians"

  3. self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; "the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform"

reform

  1. v. make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices; "reform a political system"

  2. bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct" [syn: reclaim, regenerate, rectify]

  3. produce by cracking; "reform gas"

  4. break up the molecules of; "reform oil"

  5. improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition; "reform the health system in this country"

  6. change for the better; "The lazy student promised to reform"; "the habitual cheater finally saw the light" [syn: straighten out, see the light]

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Gazetteer
Reform, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama
Population (2000): 1978
Housing Units (2000): 925
Land area (2000): 8.042385 sq. miles (20.829681 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.028421 sq. miles (0.073611 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.070806 sq. miles (20.903292 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64104
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.380835 N, 88.015022 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 35481
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Reform (think tank)

Reform is a British think tank based in London, whose declared mission is to set out a better way to deliver public services and economic prosperity. Reform describes itself as independent and non-partisan with an aim "to produce research of outstanding quality on the core issues of the economy, health, education and law and order and on the right balance between government and individual."

Reform (music)

Reform is a Swedish music group, that was formed in Stockholm in 1998 by Jesper Bergman, Johan Klaeson and Anders Bergman. The group started playing tunes from Miles Davis' early fusion period (1969–75), but later turned to their own material.

Reform (album)

Reform is Jane Zhang's fifth studio album that was released on 1 June 2011. It is her second album with Universal Music Group under Show City Times. Built around the theme "reform and changes."

Reform

Reform means the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc. The use of the word in this way emerges in the late 18th century and is believed to originate from Christopher Wyvill’s Association movement which identified “Parliamentary Reform” as its primary aim.

Reform is generally distinguished from revolution. The latter means basic or radical change; whereas reform may be no more than fine tuning, or at most redressing serious wrongs without altering the fundamentals of the system. Reform seeks to improve the system as it stands, never to overthrow it wholesale. Radicals on the other hand, seek to improve the system, but try to overthrow whether it be the government or a group of people themselves.

Rotation in office or term limits would, by contrast, be more revolutionary, in altering basic political connections between incumbents and constituents.

Developing countries may carry out a wide range of reforms to improve their living standards, often with support from international financial institutions and aid agencies. This can include reforms to macroeconomic policy, the civil service, and public financial management.

Reform (Anglican)

Reform is an Evangelical organisation within Anglicanism, active in the Church of England and the Church of Ireland. Reform in England describes itself as a "network of churches and individuals within the Church of England, committed to the reform of ourselves, our congregation and our world by the gospel".

Several large Anglican churches in England are members of Reform, such as Jesmond Parish Church (in Newcastle upon Tyne), St Ebbe's, Oxford and St Helen's Bishopsgate (located in the City of London).

Reform was started in 1993 to oppose the ordination of women to the priesthood (like Forward in Faith in the Anglo-Catholic tradition) but has recently focused on advocating a conservative view of homosexuality. Reform has also been involved in encouraging people to be involved in the structures of the Church of England and to celebrate what is good about what the Church of England officially believes. Reform is keen to recognise the unique value of women's ministry within the church. Some Reform members support ordination of women to the priesthood, but not their appointment in charge of a parish or similar. Reform members are also divided over the issue of the remarriage of divorced persons and the issue is left out of the definition of marriage found in the Reform Covenant.

Reform stand firmly in the more Reformed tradition of the Church of England, but while they disagree of the interpretation placed upon Anglicanism by Forward in Faith (e.g. views about the Eucharist, the meaning of ordination, prayers for the dead and to the saints) they pledged at their 2006 conference their co-operation with that Anglo-Catholic grouping to oppose the acceptance of women as bishops within the Church of England.

Since 2007, Rod Thomas has been chairman of Reform. In 2015, it was announced that he is to the first dedicated conservative evangelical bishop, as the new Bishop of Maidstone.

Reform (disambiguation)

Reform is beneficial change.

Reform(ing) or reformed may also refer to:

  • Reformed tradition, the Protestant branch of Christianity also known as Calvinism
  • Reform, Alabama, an American town
  • Reform, Mississippi
  • Reform (Anglican), an evangelical organisation within Anglicanism
  • Reform Judaism, a denomination of Judaism
  • Reform (magazine), Christian magazine published by the United Reformed Church, British denomination
  • Reform (think tank), a British think tank
  • Reform (album), a 2011 album by Jane Zhang
  • Reform (music), a Swedish music group
  • Non-reformist Reform, a labour movement aimed at transformation rather than reformation
  • Reforming Movement, a French centrist political group created in 1972
  • Wesleyan Reform Union, an independent group of Methodists in the United Kingdom
  • Catalytic reforming, a chemical process in oil refining
  • Steam reforming, catalytic oxidation to produce hydrogen from hydrocarbons
  • The Reform or La Reforma, the period in mid 19th century Mexico when the modern nation state was born
  • Islamic Reform or Tajdid, the revival of an Islamic society
  • Reform Movement (Ireland), a Unionist organisation based in Ireland
  • Post-Suharto era or period of Reform (Reformasi), the (current) era in Indonesia following the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the fall of Suharto, characterized by increased freedom and political participation
Reform (magazine)

Reform, also referred to as Reform Magazine, is an editorially-independent monthly subscription magazine published by the United Reformed Church.

Reform magazine explores theology, ethics, personal spirituality and Christian perspectives on social and current affairs; it features writing from journalists, academics, politicians, campaigners, scientists and religious leaders. As well as high-profile interviews, in-depth features and book, music and film reviews, Reform carries regular light-hearted and anecdotal columns, puzzles, poetry and letters.

Reform's interviewees include: Bafta award-winning broadcaster Robert Beckford, interfaith/justice campaigner Anjum Anwar MBE, novelist Marilynne Robinson, evangelist Gerard Kelly; MP Ann Widdecombe, scientist Andrew Parker, journalist/author Theo Hobson, US mega-church pastor Rob Bell, broadcasters John Humphrys and Jeremy Vine, and theologians John Polkinghorne and Esther Mombo.

Reform is edited by Kay Parris.

Reform (horse)

Reform (1964–1983) was an Irish-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a racing career which lasted from April 1966 until October 1967 he won eleven of his fourteen races. As a two-year-old he was beaten on his debut but won his remaining six races and was rated among the best colts of his generation in Britain. Reform was never entered in the British Classic Races, but proved himself to be an outstanding three-year-old in 1967, winning five of his seven starts. After winning the St James's Stakes, St James's Palace Stakes, Sussex Stakes and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes he ended his career by beating the Epsom Derby winner Royal Palace in the Champion Stakes.

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Usage examples of "reform".

Now, since the Lord wills that a man be reformed and regenerated in order that eternal life or the life of heaven may be his, and none can be reformed or regenerated unless good is appropriated to his will and truth to his understanding as if they were his, and only that can be appropriated which is done in freedom of the will and in accord with the reason of the understanding, no one is reformed in states of no freedom or rationality.

When it does, the internal of thought is closed and thereupon man can no longer act in freedom in accord with his reason, nor be reformed.

Economic development within the United States and stabilization and reform in Europe and Japan were all guaranteed by the United States insofar as it accumulated imperialist superprofits through its relationship to the subordinate countries.

Avignon was persuaded, that the successful rebel could alone appease and reform the anarchy of the metropolis.

Thomas Cromwell, who wanted to reform the bureaucracy and limit the power of the Church, Henry VIII had begun closing down monasteries and appropriating their revenues for the Crown.

And what a screech would there not be among the clergy of the Church, even in these reforming days, if any over-bold reformer were to suggest that such an approximation should be attempted?

He encouraged the arts, reformed the laws, asserted military discipline, and visited all his provinces in person.

No matter how red the Neon lights glow on Main Street, they cannot rival the horrid hellfire in the chapel of the Antinomians, or the True New Reformed Tabernacle of the Penitent Saints of the Assembly of God, or in most of the brick and gray stone Baptist and Methodist churches that resemble railroad depots of 1890, and he that knows not that encouraging fact has never been west or south of Blawenburg.

Bek saw them falling into disorder and tried to have his bannerets call them back to reform before charging, but his words of caution fell on deaf ears.

After expatiating on the advantages connected with the Scotch representation, he remarked that his objection to the present motion was its application, as a single instance of reform in a borough, to the general question.

After the Reform Bill of 1832 Bowring was frequently a candidate for Parliament, and was finally elected for Bolton in 1841.

America raised, not in condemnation of all experimentation upon animals, but solely in protest against its cruelty and secrecy, and in appeal for its reform, was that of the leading American surgeon of his time, Professor Henry J.

CHAPTER XIV THE WORK OF REFORM SOCIETIES It is necessary to make a distinction between societies aiming to destroy animal experimentation, root and branch, and those which hope only to prevent abuses and cruelties.

An organization which more than any other has distinguished itself for persistent, unwearied, and vigorous attempts to secure reform by legal enactment is the Society for the Prevention of Abuse in Animal Experimentation, organized in Brooklyn, New York, in 1907.

An editorial in Investment Times called upon Congress to take a serious look at litigation reform.