reformer
the reformist wing of the party
He became a priest, but his reformist zeal soon made him enemies.
They are pressing ahead with their reformist agenda.

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Examples of reformist

reformist
But it was also involved in an age-old theoretical battle fought by rationalist, reformist and classicist critics.
Its reformist zeal was most evident in the desire to abolish pre-capitalist modes of agricultural production symbolised by feudal intermediaries or zamindars.
This was not only because the reformist leadership was market oriented.
This collective biography is a painstaking and very informative reconstruction of the lives of a number of these reformist intellectuals.
The urban reformist elites enthusiastically invoked reformative programmes, for example, regulating the disorder of urban space and "civilizing" people.
Some bishops were actively involved in reformist projects such as the promotion of local manufactures and schools for the training of artisans.#!
She also highlights the conservative nature of the founders of the movement and their adoption of a reformist ideology and pragmatic political stands.
This work has focused primarily on the emergence of 'reformist' movements in the northern part of the country during the nineteenth century.
This group, although vague and differentiated, was usually less radical than younger 'revisionists', less 'revolutionary' and more reformist.
In short, they see the antebellum era as greatly contemporary, in the same conceptual world as today's legal and reformist wrangling over race and need.
Instead, it acquiesced in judicial reformist activity until legislation on the subject began in the 1920s.
The lawyers were almost overwhelmingly liberal and reformist.
The new legislation was conceived as a political compromise to appease two strongly opposed forces: reformists and the old guard.
The terms in which they formulated their concerns reveal the stamp of decades of judicial reformist activity.
Operating from within this framework, reformist movements were characterized by intellectual and structural ambivalence.
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