Sentence examples for agent of reform from inspiring English sources

The national curriculum is proving a highly effective agent of reform.

He cast Michigan as an agent of "reform" of the system, which, he said, "is a really messed-up system where a few states always go first".

They wanted to reform rather than abolish capitalism, and their agent of reform was not the socialist working class, but the loosely conceived idea of "the people".

In a swing through Delaware the day before the state's Republican primary, Mr. Bush used the news conference to raise questions about Mr. McCain's credentials as an agent of reform.

Far from being thought of by his colleagues as an agent of reform, he is seen as a relentless arm-twister, deal-maker and fund-raiser who has been friendly with the tobacco and gun industries.

He was one of the educated provincials who Gorbachev hoped might serve as agents of reform.

Secondly, the agents of reform must be schools and school districts, not bureaucracies.

Trollope sees that the agents of reform are often ugly, that the beneficiaries of corruption are often graceful, that the effects of reform are often dubious, but that reform in a liberal society is nonetheless as inevitable as the standardization of measurement.

The Bush Administration is unlikely to press the oil companies to be agents of reform.

That is why government officials cannot be relied upon to act as agents of reform or action.

Justice does not arrive simply by acknowledging mistakes and empowering the same people who implemented the corrupt system we are now bemoaning as the central agents of reform.