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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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economic
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The legislative victory also burnished Putin's credentials as an economic reformer .
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On the one side are democrats, economic reformers and secessionists.
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But is he an economic reformer ?
great
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Evidence from the first and second waves of reform does not give great comfort to reformers .
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The newly formed society of Jesuits were fanatical witch-hunters but even the great reformers were not far behind.
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Teresa of Avila became one of the great reformers of the sixteenth century.
penal
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If the primary object of penal reformers is not to abolish prisons it is certainly to secure reductions in prison population.
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Maconochie was a pioneer in unrelated disciplines but it was as a penal reformer that he was most influential.
radical
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I once spent many months as a student using the papers of Francis Place, the radical reformer of early nineteenth-century Westminster.
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The so-called radical reformers wanted to go even further back, to the Apostolic church or to the New Testament itself.
social
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These efforts would seem pitifully inadequate to a modern social reformer .
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In the absence of alarm, inequality is more easily accepted than social reformers in the past have supposed.
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prison
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Internal prison reformers can not divorce themselves from these issues, however sensitive they might be.
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But the Home Office and prison reformers say his actions were mischievous and disruptive.
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An full inquest will be held later this year, but prison reformers are calling for a full judicial inquiry.
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But prison reformers say experience shows Gardiner's claims could well be true.Ken Goodwin reports.
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A life-long reformer such as Russell clearly saw himself, not as conceding, but as strengthening aristocratic influence.
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Harold Ickes, a veteran reformer , was Secretary of the Interior.
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It is tempting to pick the reformers.
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On the one side are democrats, economic reformers and secessionists.
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The key element, however, is not the ardor of the reformers.
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The nominees for Prime Minister included representatives of both reformers and conservatives.
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There was no point in being a mere political reformer intent on changing laws and state institutions to make social conditions better.
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This is a depressing conclusion for liberal reformers.