Chile's financial sector has grown quickly in recent years, with a banking reform law approved in 1997 that broadened the scope of permissible foreign activity for Chilean banks.

That military respect for law began The Ten Years of Spring, a democratic period of free speech and open political activity, plans for national land reform, and the historical perception, by the intelligentsia, that much and great political progress could be made in realizing the civil governance of Guatemala.

“ The new United States government policy allowing business activity in Burma ’ s controversial oil sector with reporting requirements will not adequately prevent new investments from fueling abuses and undermining reform ,” New York-based watchdog Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

Political unrest, including private and public sector strikes throughout 1992 and 1993, jeopardized the reform program, shrank the tax base, and disrupted vital economic activity.

These were complemented by a comprehensive package of structural reforms including privatization, enterprise, and financial sector reform, and creation of the legal framework for a market economy and private sector activity.

Outside the Nara area, however, there was little commercial activity, and in the provinces the old Shōtoku land reform systems declined.

Despite all of this, Hua Guofeng himself criticized certain aspects of the Cultural Revolution, including the education reform, the revolutionary committees ' activity and other excesses, blaming the Gang of Four.

In this way Lanfranc set the seal of intellectual activity on the reform movement of which Bec was the centre.

In the 1890s Julia Lathrop, Florence Kelley, and other residents of the house made it a world center of social reform activity.

Renaissance humanism was an activity of reform engaged by scholars, writers, and civic leaders who are today known as Renaissance humanists, initially in Italy, and then across Europe.

Conservatives argued that church activity on behalf of racial desegregation and voting rights constituted a violation of the doctrine of " the spirituality of the church ," a late-19th century principle developed by PCUS theologians that declared that social reform and political participation were duties or pursuits to be taken up by individuals, not church courts.

In 2003, a conservative Texas legislative reform group, the American Legislative Exchange Council ( ALEC ), proposed the " Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act " which defined an " animal rights or ecological terrorist organization " as " two or more persons organized for the purpose of supporting any politically motivated activity intended to obstruct or deter any person from participating in an activity involving animals or an activity involving natural resources.

In a newspaper interview in 1976, Brown announced that he had a gay partner in order to highlight discrimination and encourage law reform as homosexual activity was a crime in Tasmania at the time.

The unresolved land reform situation was again the mainspring for renewed political activity.

Furthermore, its provisions represented the view of many conservative Republicans on the issues of shrinking the size of government, promoting lower taxes and greater entrepreneurial activity, and both tort reform and welfare reform.

The WSM perceives such activity ( such as support for organized labor unions ) to be within the scope of the current capitalist system, and therefore insufficient for bringing about fundamental change in the structure of society because the demands of such activities are to reform capitalism.

Their activity became more successful after some of them took over ownership of their land after a second land reform in 1921.

De Leonists have traditionally refrained from any activity or alliances viewed by them as trying to reform capitalism, though the Socialist Labor Party in De Leon's time was active during strikes and such, such as social justice movements, preferring instead to concentrate solely on the twin tasks of building support for a De Leonist political party and organizing Socialist Industrial Unions.

With this action he first displayed his belief that only through parliamentary reform and with the new power of the press that public opinion could be influenced to pursue Irish issues constitutionally through open political activity and the ballot box.

He spent the last years of his life in charitable activity, establishing the ' Dinmukhamed Kunayev Foundation ', one of whose purposes was the support of political reform in Kazakhstan.

The Howard League for Penal Reform ( the world's oldest prison reform organisation ) is a prominent advocate for the increased use of community sentencing in order to reduce the prison population and improve the rehabilitation of those sentenced for criminal activity.

His death was followed by almost two decades of conflict called the Hussite Wars, which were centred around greater calls for religious reform by Jan Hus and spurred by popular outrage provoked from his martyrdom.

Thus, the rejection of the reform by more than 52 % of the voters was widely considered to be mostly motivated by weariness with de Gaulle, and ultimately provoked his resignation that year.

" Primo de Rivera dared not tackle what was seen as Spain's most pressing problem, agrarian reform, because it would have provoked the great landholding elite.

This came as the project for land reform provoked a standoff in Parliament, after the PNL persuaded King Ferdinand that Averescu had to resign, and Ionescu agreed to induce an artificial crisis for the general to hand over his mandate.

In 1994, the German label TRC released a bootleg CD of both records, and the interest provoked by this release prompted Simeon to reform the Silver Apples in 1996.

Despite a continuing commitment to progressive reform, Gregory's performance as attorney general provoked enormous controversy because of his collaboration with postmaster general Albert S. Burleson and others in orchestrating a campaign to crush domestic dissent during World War I. Gregory helped frame the Espionage and Sedition Acts, which compromised the constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and press, and lobbied for their passage.

However, this tier of government has provoked criticism, and, in 2006, a reform created fifteen more homogenous " Valley Communities " ( comunità di valle, Talgemeinden ) and one territory including the municipalities of Trent, Cimone, Aldeno and Garniga Terme ( see Municipalities of Trentino ).

This negation of democracy provoked widespread protests and produced a dangerous situation, which was resolved only in July when the Colonial Office changed its mind about Darling's pension and the Council agreed to a moderate reform bill broadening its electoral base.

The deposition of the reformer Sultan Selim III in 1807, and his replacement with the reactionary Mustafa IV by the Janissaries and other opponents of reform, provoked Alemdar Mustafa Pasha to lead his army of Albanians and Bosnians to Constantinople in an attempt to reinstate Selim III and restore his reforms.

Amidst the hysteria it provoked a wide variety of reform groups and prominent individuals called to an end to the scandal.

His residence at Leuven, where he lectured at the Catholic University, exposed Erasmus to much criticism from those ascetics, academics and clerics hostile to the principles of literary and religious reform and the loose norms of the Renaissance adherents to which he was devoting his life.

The uprising developed into a full-scale war with Russia, but the leadership was taken over by the Polish conservative circles reluctant to challenge the Empire, and hostile to broadening the independence movement's social base through measures such as land reform.

These moderate proposals met with a hostile response from reactionary elements within the Cortes, including the conservative wing of the CEDA and the proposed reform was defeated.

Working class and middle class " Popular radicals " agitated to demand the right to vote and assert other rights including freedom of the press and relief from economic distress, while " Philosophic radicals " strongly supported parliamentary reform, but were generally hostile to the arguments and tactics of the " popular radicals ".

), hostile to the concentration of power in just a few individuals and reform of the Greek political life

Reports suggested these conferences were overwhelmingly hostile and the Conservative Party conference in 1969 passed a highly critical motion, while suggesting that some reform of local government was supported.

A reform movement known as COREL ( Committee to Promote Referendums on Elections ), led by maverick DC-member Mario Segni, proposed three referendums, one of which was allowed by the Constitutional Court ( at that time packed with members of the PSI and hostile to the movement ).

A reform movement known as COREL ( Committee to Promote Referendums on Elections ), led by maverick Christian Democracy member Mario Segni, proposed three referendums, one of which was allowed by the Constitutional Court of Italy ( at that time packed with members of the Italian Socialist Party and hostile to the movement ).

More respectable " Philosophical radicals " followed the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham and strongly supported parliamentary reform, but were generally hostile to the arguments and tactics of the " popular radicals ".

The theoretical basis for electoral reform was provided by " Philosophical radicals " who followed the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham and strongly supported parliamentary reform, but were generally hostile to the arguments and tactics of the " popular radicals ".