Sentence examples for Reformation from inspiring English sources

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Reformation

noun

An improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs.

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MANY in the West take the Paris attacks as evidence that Islam needs reform, or indeed a full-on Reformation.

The Road to Financial Reformation: Warnings, Consequences, Reforms.

The methanol backers gloat that they have more or less solved the chief technical puzzles: Daimler's new NECAR5 boasts a reformer that powers a 50 kilowatt fuel-cell stack, while petrol reformation remains stuck in the laboratory.But the petrol researchers insist they have made great progress in recent months.

"The scholarships would be a fitting tribute to the reformation, courage and dignity of the two men," he said.

Wycliffe is hailed as a proto-Protestant hero by some sections of the church – an evangelical training college for priests at Oxford University bears his name – though his sometime nickname as "the Morning Star of the Reformation" is an association which Carswell may prefer not to emphasise.

The feudal system, the Reformation, the Renaissance, the contact with the New World, the growth of industrialism - all of these suggest at once experiences that are not peculiar to England.

All of which leads journalists such as the director of Ríodoce to conclude that the Sinaloa cartel is well on the way to completing its reformation for the post-Chapo era.

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But it also means something else.The pre-Reformation period in Europe brought into being a multitude of sects, many of which saw it as their duty to preach and work among the poor.

The great pre-Reformation wave of discontent in Europe was chiefly directed at the corrupt worldliness of the Catholic church, but it also had a political target.

Given that Paracelsus lived during one of the most turbulent periods of European history in the early part of the Counter-Reformation and just before the Thirty Years War this was not an unreasonable decision.

Caravaggio's tempestuous career follows a collision course with the counter-Reformation "thought police" and the hypocrisy of his patrons and early critics.

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