reform act
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreformandact
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reform
noun[C or U]
uk/rɪˈfɔːm/us/rɪˈfɔːrm/
an improvement, especially in a person's behaviour or in the structure ...
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act
noun
uk/ækt/us/ækt/
something that ...
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It was they who had made thereformactand who had most to lose from its amendment.
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Thereformacthas always sorted out the faint-hearted from the resolute.
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No surprise, then, that among recent publications there are several which take the greatreformactas their subject, either centrally or more peripherally.
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After the 1993 pensionreformact, it has been progressively increased to 40 years.
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Yet historians have shown little interest in this debate, seeing it as largely irrelevant to the making of the secondreformact.
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Thereformactremains the great ' either or ' of the nineteenth century.
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As they point out in the introduction to their volume, the secondreformactwas not simply a high political manoeuvre resulting in the extension of the suffrage.
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Political unions, popular politics and the greatreformactof is an exhaustively researched account of the 120 or so political unions which formed in the early 1830s.
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We lack proper chapter and verse on the electoral impact of dissent, and the analysis of the decades betweenreformacttwo and three is too list-like.
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The samereformactmandated adoption of formal release guidelines to eliminate any perception of arbitrariness.
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The act did lead to an increase in food production, although there is debate over the cause; it may be related to weather conditions more than thereformact.
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By the end of the century, various reform acts, through redistricting of rotten boroughs and the enlargement of the franchise, produced large, roughly even, electoral districts.
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Moreover, the internal regimen which it prescribed vastly exceeded the absolutely minimal standards of conduct required by the three prison reform acts of 1773 and 1774.
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