Sentence examples for prominent reforms from inspiring English sources

The chain has won over many longtime critics with a series of prominent reforms.

It may determine the presidential election, too.Mr Obama's law covers everything from menus to electronic health records, though its most prominent reforms will not come into effect until 2014.

Prominent reforms of the Meiji government included the 1871 abolition of the domain system, by which the feudal domains and their hereditary rulers were replaced by prefectures with governors appointed by the emperor.

As far as external trade is concerned, in the early 1990s, a few steps to liberalize agricultural trade were initiated about a year and a half after the July 1991 reforms, and these have been followed by a number of prominent reforms thereafter.

The next day a prominent reform-minded LDP member, Yoshimi Watanabe, left the ruling party.

Yao Lifa, a prominent reform advocate, was furiously writing official complaints after losing in late November.

In November 2002 Hashem Aghajari, a prominent reform-minded academic, was sentenced to death by a court in western Iran following a speech he made in support of religious reform, sparking the largest student protests since those of 1999.

Gage began her public involvement in the three prominent reform causes of the time the abolition of slavery, temperance, and women's rights by contributing letters to newspapers and speaking whenever she was afforded the opportunity.

Thus we have seen a wide range of political and propaganda campaigns that have been accompanied by legal and pseudo-legal administrative measures, including stringent new vetting procedures intended to disqualify prominent reform candidates in Tehran and other big cities.

Two prominent reform editors were sent to prison on vague charges of insulting Islam, and a third, who was summoned to appear in court on Monday, is expected to be jailed as well.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A day after Iranian authorities began a mass trial of more than 100 government opponents, state television broadcast a chilling segment in which two defendants — both prominent reform figures — said they had "changed" since being arrested, and disputed widespread claims that their publicized confessions had been coerced through torture.