"reform" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

reform verbo

reform + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 19
reform the system • reform school • reform education • reform society • effort to reform • ...
(3) effort, practice, abuse
Kolokacji: 3
1. effort to reform = wysiłek do reformy effort to reform
2. reform practices = praktyki reformatorskie reform practices
3. reform abuses = nadużycia reformatorskie reform abuses
  • Henry wanted to change this, and in November 1529 Parliament passed Acts reforming apparent abuses in the English Church.
  • He wished to reform abuses which had been introduced into the Church; but had no private resentment to gratify.
  • He set himself to reform abuses, and attended the general council of Florence, in order to obtain authority from Pope Eugenius IV for his contemplated reforms.
  • On 30 June 1783 Fitzwilliam gave his maiden speech, giving the government's objections to the Shelburnite MP William Pitt's Bill to reform abuses in public offices.
  • Some of us have over-emphasized unimportant points, and others have not adequately reformed obvious abuses.
  • In the following year he was selected by Matthew Parker as a visitor to reform abuses in the two Kentish dioceses.
  • He made his name as a novelist in 1856, when he published It Is Never Too Late to Mend, a novel written to reform abuses in prison discipline and the treatment of criminals.
  • In his anxiety to reform abuses and to secure the welfare of Ireland, by an uncompromising and impetuous zeal, he made many bitter and unrelenting enemies.
  • Scholars have called him a saintly pope because he reformed abuses by the Church, including simony, nepotism and the lavish papal expenditures that had caused him to inherit a papal debt of 50,000,000 scudi.
  • He intervened against encroachments on the part of the bishops, reformed various abuses, and abolished the ordeal by hot iron.
(5) Medicare, welfare, Medicaid
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + reform
Kolokacji: 3
try to reform • begin reforming • consider reforming
reform + preposición
Kolokacji: 18
reformed into • reform in • reformed at • reform with • reform for • ...
reform + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 12
later reform • radically reform • eventually reform • substantially reform • completely reformed • ...

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