re-form

Examples of reforming

reforming

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

They were mutually dedicated to reforming institutions and removing privileges that they regarded as impediments to growth and stability.
They exercised their power as democratically-elected leaders by creating reforming political coalitions that changed traditional political alignments.
But, despite the interest it aroused in many reforming circles in the government, the project never got beyond the planning stage.
Instead, the majority of the text set out commitments for reforming the military and police forces and provided details of the military cease-fire.
This critique encouraged reforming initiatives from the opposition aimed at eliminating corruption but not at broadening the basis of political participation.
The ministry of labour was all too aware that it would depend on labour market institutions if it was to succeed in reforming industrial training.
The case for reforming the region's pension systems is made in a rather unusual way.
In reforming pensions, redistributional aspects are important to maintain standards of living in old age, and the state has the democratic authority to accomplish this.
Other reforming countries have used direct worker or employer control to decentralize, enhance competition, and align decision-making with those whose interests are at stake.
Few countries will be able to avoid reforming their public-pensions system, and those reforms will almost inevitably have redistributional consequences.
The reforming conductor's efforts were in vain; thus 'rue', an old-fashioned literary word for regret.
Reforming insolvent government banks has proved to be very difficult.
One attractive position to take was to embrace the student initiative for reforming the constitution.
For this reason, my results suggest that calls for reforming (or doing away with) citizen juries are premature.
In these moments he allowed hard-nosed political realism to soften reforming zealotry.
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