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
"Our study shows that spiny mouse macrophages release distinct proteins that are partially responsible for the reformation of specialized tissues at the site of injury and for protecting cells from stress," said Seifert.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 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
But America is in a situation the most favorable for great reformations; and the present time is, in a singular degree, auspicious.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder
It comes out in the reformations under the pious Kings of Judah.
From The Ministry of Intercession A Plea for More Prayer by Andrew Murray
In the famous Dartmoor prison and at Borstal in Kent experiments are being made to secure a greater number of reformations among the younger convicts.
From A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by James Leslie Allan Kayll
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