Reformations

His was not that stern enthusiasm which has displayed itself in some so-called reformations, fancying itself God's peculiar choice, and "despising others." ❋ John Henry Newman (1845)

One of the worst deformations (aka "reformations") our economy since the mid-1980s is the fifty to sixty percent rise of unemployment . ❋ Unknown (2009)

"reformations" in the Low Countries - actual ones, i.e. within the traditional Church, spread by the clergy - that catered to a growing need for a personal spirituality, while not discarding the greater context of handed-down tradition. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most of us within the Elders of Sodom are not easily offended or even discomfited by such symbols, but for all the tolerant strains of Christianity out there and all the profoundly ethical Christians that subscribe to them, the liberalising reformations of Christianity are far from universal. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

When it comes to band reformations, it seems impossibly churlish to complain about musicians earning a living by doing their jobs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Life had changed when Mikhail Gorbachev came along in the 1980s, and with him glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring)—reformations that utterly transformed the atmosphere. ❋ Dorothy Rabinowitz (2011)

Lately, this has brought some pretty valuable reformations: cult bands like the Sonics, the Monks, the Zombies and now at the Le Beat Bepoké weekender the Flamin' Groovies. ❋ Unknown (2011)

His is the mildest of reformations of Bush's last two years in office, and that's about the best you can say for him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What do you think of the reformations to student lending in America? ❋ Unknown (2010)

In Europe and the Americas religious monarchies were abolished and separation between state and theological ideologies was achieved through a series of reformations, reforms, revolutions, and secularization. ❋ Walid Phares (2010)

I had hoped that a “velvet revolution” would take place under her popularity, and that the country would undergo reformations when it saw her message of unity and peace. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The police have just done a lot of moving around, formations and then reformations on different blocks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Christian churches in India all trace their origins to the Apostle Thomas and just like the Western Chirstian church has experienced schisms and reformations causing a variety of Christian churches that have a unique variety of Christianity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If our investment in that "bonus army" gave birth to a transformed America, we should expect that doing our best for our modern heroes will prove more essential to our current economic reformations than any business bailout. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you look at the history of the world, many great revolutions or reformations have been accomplished by a small group of dedicated visionaries. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As the Reformation swept across central and northern Europe, the Lutheran and Anglican reformations understood themselves to be reasserting the teachings of the first millenium of church history, while retaining many of the liturgical and artistic traditions of the historic western church resisting Calvinist iconoclasm. ❋ Burke's Corner (2008)

Another issue that systems theories want to investigate is why their social structures or norms deviate from each other after their parallel time ended, because system theories care about those social random flunctuations that might trigger social structure reformations. ❋ Daniel Little (2008)

[street] reformant, hope reformant, avoid [repeat] [informants] ❋ Crza_crx (2007)

1. We are [going] to have a reformation to become a [bigger] [group] ❋ Kenneth Egelkrout (2008)

My mom was a [Reform Jew], but my dad was a Conservative [Jew]. Since the two were always intermingling and we [bounced] back and forth between the two, I consider myself a Reformative Jew. ❋ BirchTree80 (2010)

❋ AYB (2003)

[Congress] passed [tax reform] [legislation]. ❋ Mark Yannone (2008)

A few of my favorite [kinks] are [hypnotism], bondage, [reformism], etc. ❋ Dust Palace (2020)

[John McCain] is a [reformer]. ❋ AnybodyButBush (2008)

Donald Trump has now become a reformed [birther] in order to [convince] people that he is not a racist but now he is trying to blame the whole birther nonsense on [Hillary Clinton]. ❋ Just_sayin' (2016)

Initially at least, to the [Romans], Jesus was [a Jew] trying to [reform The Church]; it is only about the middle of the 2nd century AD, that Jesus became the the religious character he is today. ❋ Sexydimma (2013)

Can you [believe that] the guy who used to get [shitfaced] every night just called me [pathetic] because I went out drinking? What a reformed whore! ❋ WCL (2006)