21 Metaphors for reforming

Hannibal Reform of the Carthaginian Constitution Hannibal's Flight This pliability on the part of the vanquished, however was not mere patience and resignation.

But American Reform is not a scheme; it is the service of an idea.

In either of these senses, the small reform may become the enemy of the great one.

But, like these two great reforms, when movements of vital importance are once inaugurated, their arriving at perfection is but a matter of time.

If all our hereditary legislators were as high-minded and single-hearted as the new Duke of Rutland, the reform of the House of Lords would scarcely be a burning question.

Another political reform which promises excellent results is the adoption by many states of some form of the Australian ballot-system, for the purpose of checking intimidation and bribery at elections.

The reforms, such as they are, are largely in the line of palliatives; the deep-lying factors, those that control both success and failure, are seldom touched upon.

After the passage of the Reform Bill, the first thing of importance to which the reform Parliament turned its attention was the condition of Ireland.

Then there are the laws regulating punishment for crime, laws for probation or parole, indeterminate sentences, etc., all based on the modern theory that reform, not retribution or even prevention, is the basis of penology.

The writer is strongly of opinion that this radical reform is, so far as constitutional, the end to be aimed at.

The reforms mentioned in the preceding chapter were the last measures of the reign of William IV.

This reform of the centuries, which perhaps in its totality proceeded likewise from Flaminius, was the first important constitutional change which the new opposition wrung from the nobility, the first victory of the democracy proper.

whether peaceful or violent, and that the new Reforms are a half-way house to freedom.

But this reform was to her thoughtless and magnanimous nature an impossibility; and however greatly she may have feared the flashing eyes and thundering voice of her husband when he was angered, she could not escape his wrath in this one point, for in that point precisely was it that the penitent sinner continually fell into fresh transgressionand again ran into debt!

That three hereticsI should say, six, for my daughter, son, and his wife often joined the circlecould thus sit in perfect security, and debate, in the most unorthodox fashion, in these holy precincts, all the reforms, social, political, and religious, which the United States and France need in order to be in harmony with the spirit of the age, was a striking proof of the progress the world has made in freedom of speech.

Reforms that we have publicly announced, adopted, and worked out for more than two yearshow is it a concession to violence, to persist in those reforms?

Liturgical reform became an urgent need.

Reforms in the Military Service Of a kindred character was the proposal, which Cato made in the senate, to remedy the decline of the burgess-cavalry by the institution of four hundred new equestrian stalls.(57)

A better and more reasonable plea on Flood's part was that reform was the crying necessity of the hour, and ought to be carried while the volunteers were still enrolled, and the effect already produced by their presence was still undiminished.

Another reform of far-reaching importance was the readjustment of the burden of taxation so that it should bear lightly on the necessities of life, and heavily on its luxuries.

Reform of the Lunacy Law and a humaner treatment of lunatics were the earliest objects to which he devoted himself.

21 Metaphors for  reforming