Sentence examples for influential reform from inspiring English sources

Citizens Union, an influential reform organization that was founded in 1897 to advocate for transparency and openness in government, has called for Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign.

Cleveland's venerable, influential Reform congregation, Anshe Chesed, bought land in Beachwood in the late 1940's to build a temple large enough for its 1,800 member families, of whom just 20 then lived in the suburb.

Gluck's "Alceste" was introduced in Vienna in 1767 as the second in the series of his influential reform operas, which sought to create more austere, dramatically elevated works in the model of Greek classical tragedy and to rid the genre of vocal excess and outmoded conventions.

The most famous and influential reform conservatives all cut their teeth in the culture wars.

One of his most influential reforms was that of standardizing local administration.

A group of influential, reform-minded Democrats presented Obama and Duncan with a memo early on that outlined RTTT, a competition that would leverage change by offering cash to states that agreed to adapt data-driven reforms.

One of his most influential reforms as president was the founding of the new University College as an academic division within the University of Florida in 1935.

His administration, lasting until April 1, 1834, was responsible for the most widespread and influential reforms of the period, and coincided with the actual enforcement of the new legislation.

Pietism, German Pietismus, influential religious reform movement that began among German Lutherans in the 17th century.

The movement, called the Office for Consolidation of Unity, has been an influential pro-reform group with branches around the country.

He belonged to a small but later influential group of reform officials and scholars whose slogan was "find in antiquity the sanction for present-day reform".