reformation
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"It also aims to prevent the reformation of a criminal organisation that existed until a few years ago," he told a news conference.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
However, the amount of reformation each winter is in decline, as rising temperatures due to climate change disproportionately affect the Arctic.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
After three stays of execution, Ramirez has run out of opportunities to appeal, and despite having shown evidence of reformation, the pleas by those in Ramirez’s corner go unheard.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2025
Shannon Lee briefly joined Laner for a reformation of Medicine in 2003 and the album “The Mechanical Forces of Love.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2024
The Quakers’ goals were prevention of further harm to society, deterrence, and, by the early nineteenth century, encouragement of prisoners to en-gage in “penitent reflection,” which could result in their personal reformation.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Ironically, “the” Reformation as the sundering of Christian unity was at least in part the product of prosaic reformations already occurring within the Church.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
In Germany and Russia, political reformations of the world were attempted.
From Time Magazine Archive
This opportunity ought to have been seized on for effecting those reformations, provoked by the corruptions which the false decretals had produced in the ecclesiastical discipline.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
Of all the reformations which have taken place during the past thirty-five years in various establishments, none have been greater than that which has occurred at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
From The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich by A.W. Drayson
I do not expect any great improvement in our prisons, till I see great reformations out of them.
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds
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