reformative and rehabilitative agencies. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : social reform; spelling reform. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : The drunkard promised to reform. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : a Reform rabbi. From Dictionary.com.
Sinha is what could be called a reformative businessman because he feels business is the answer to major social problems. From Wordnik.com. [Article Source] Reference
I ask you what is its reformative effect upon man?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
It is a part of the correctional and reformative process. From Wordnik.com. [National ParoleIts Successes and Its Failures] Reference
Are you suggesting reformative liberalization as a solution?. From Wordnik.com. [Equality and the Liberal Democrats… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…] Reference
After the turmoil of 1968, Paris took a reformative hand in helping to do itself in. From Wordnik.com. [Where's The Light?] Reference
The construction of gender was put forward through the party's discourse and its reformative social projects. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
We still in some sections of Canada have a long way to go yet in the way of progressive and reformative penology. From Wordnik.com. [National ParoleIts Successes and Its Failures] Reference
The resilience, the power of their progressive and reformative social, political and philosophical ideas eventually triumphed. From Wordnik.com. [Emerging Muslim Freethinkers and the Battle of Civilizations] Reference
She said government is initiating numerous reformative and exemplary steps for faster development of all the regions of the state. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Kashmir���s lone woman minister appealed people to be aware of those who disrupt peace] Reference
Besides our regular religious services, including our large and delightful Sabbath-school, we have various reformative and benevolent societies. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 01, January, 1888] Reference
Every state included under the "Land of the free and the home of the brave" should strive to make its criminal laws reformative rather than revengeful. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
I don't think reformative measures will always work for criminals. From Wordnik.com. [ Analysis] Reference
Invalidating their illegal actions should be easy - and reformative. From Wordnik.com. [columbiatribune.com stories] Reference
We see it as a reformative step for the inmates, †said Chandrasekhar. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
It was about the second week that my reformative turn of mind became acute. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography] Reference
The policy creators 'erroneous presumptions could greatly hinder reformative efforts. From Wordnik.com. [Daytona Beach News-Journal Online] Reference
But we hope for little of a reformative tendency from the selfish society of the world. From Wordnik.com. [What Can She Do?] Reference
I do not know a musician reformative like this so much in the organist of limited Jazz. From Wordnik.com. [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference
Newcastle, is in honour of the reformative work of the equality-and-diversity organisation. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Every study must be of value from a reformative point of view and also from an educational one. From Wordnik.com. [A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science] Reference
Much has been written of late about the pessimistic spirit pervading modern reformative literature. From Wordnik.com. [The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891] Reference
Till then she had pinned her faith, like a wise woman, in the reformative influence of a good marriage. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand in the Dark] Reference
The moral hump is tolerated, even patronised in reformative institutions, but the physical hump, never!. From Wordnik.com. [London's Underworld] Reference
But Justice Chao felt that reformative training was not necessarily a "soft option" compared to prison. From Wordnik.com. [Channel NewsAsia Front Page News] Reference
Christianity in purer phases and broader morality and higher forms in its reformative and practical ends. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,] Reference
However, it might have been his belief that he always continued a reformative performance for the performance. From Wordnik.com. [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference
The rhythm of the shuffle of "Nowhere To Run" will have a reformative element as music of Santana at this time. From Wordnik.com. [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference
Duke of Burgundy, were the exponents of this political spirit, at once bold and prudent, conservative and reformative. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3] Reference
The whole theory of Punishment would also have to be gone into: should it be restrictive, or revengeful, or reformative?. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
This album is an album with which such a reformative creation and the line where they are supported splendidly harmonize. From Wordnik.com. [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference
Suffering which is of an entirely penal nature, has very little deterrent value and absolutely no reformative value whatever. From Wordnik.com. [A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science] Reference
The resilience, the power, of their progressive and reformative social, political and philosophical ideas eventually triumphed. From Wordnik.com. [On Line Opinion - Latest Articles] Reference
In youth the deterrent effects of punishment are small, and the beneficial effects of reformative measures are at their maximum. From Wordnik.com. [Crime and Its Causes] Reference
A prison to possess any reformative value must always be made an uncomfortable place to live in; Continental peoples and the people of. From Wordnik.com. [Crime and Its Causes] Reference
A reformative agency till it has failed at least three times. From Wordnik.com. [Crime and Its Causes] Reference
Abnormally intent, of course, and yet with a high degree of deliberation -- upon a reformative investigation. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography] Reference
And while sports has often perpetuated disparaging stereotypes, it has also exemplified our nation’s reformative, healing powers. From Wordnik.com. [Why PopPolitics? | PopPolitics.com] Reference
Be protective, be reformative. From Wordnik.com. [Patrick Takahashi: A Simple Solution for Crime: Background] Reference
They are retributive, reformative and deterrent. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
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