Sentence examples for reformist forces from inspiring English sources

In the Prague Spring of 1968, Hajek supported the reformist forces that came to power, and that year he was appointed foreign minister.

But it is also a battleground on which reformist forces are fighting an almost daily war against conservatives rooted in the old order of hierarchy and unquestioned authority.

The letter came in the midst of Mr. Clinton's broader efforts to reach out to Mr. Khatami and engage the reformist forces in Iran.

As the disintegration accelerated with the breakup of the federal communist party, the League of Communists, Markovic sought to present a pro-federal, democratic alternative by establishing the Alliance of Reformist Forces in 1990.

The Clinton administration has argued that Congress should vote for normal trade relations with China because it is in the United States' national security interest, strengthening reformist forces in China.

Mr. Milosevic's party agreed to share power with reformist forces in the transition government -- a major concession because the current administration could have served until regular elections in the fall of 2001.

A: No. Any giving up or any further yielding to populistic or anti-reformist forces would be a prescription for defeat.

The king is the counterbalance to influential anti-reformist forces, including Prince Nayif ibn Abdulaziz, the interior minister, who many believe may succeed Abdullah.

After he died, the West welcomed the victory of reformist political forces in parliamentary elections in January.

That arrangement, and the current crisis, can be seen as a continuation of a built-in conflict between authoritarian rulers and parliaments that dates to 1906, when a sit-in of 14,000 Iranians supported by bazaar merchants, clerics and a reformist press forced the monarchy to agree to create a parliament, hold elections and accept a constitution modeled on that of Belgium.

The parliamentary showdown was a decisive moment in the ongoing struggle between reformist and conservative forces.