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
Thomas Sprat, writing a history of the Royal Society in 1667, repeatedly compared the reformation in natural philosophy with the earlier reformation in religion.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
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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 Reynolds, John N.
The aim of reformations is absolutely essential to any good degree of public protection from crimes....
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 Kayll, James Leslie Allan
It comes out in the reformations under the pious Kings of Judah.
From The Ministry of Intercession A Plea for More Prayer by Murray, Andrew
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