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reform and 1829
Support for reform came from an unexpected source — a faction of the Tory Party — in 1829.
In the milieu of parliamentary reform the duke of Newcastle evicted over a hundred tenants at Newark whom he believed supported directly or indirectly the Liberal / Radical candidate ( Wilde ) rather than his candidate ( Michael Sadler, a progressive Conservative ) at the 1829 elections.
Whilst at Cambridge he tended to Whiggism, and up to the end of 1829 he continued to have these sympathies, but during the agitation for parliamentary reform his opinions changed, and when he was returned to parliament for St Germans ( 17 December 1830 ), his election was due to the Tory party.
Another political text of his was published in Zurich in 1829, this time anonymously: Della riforma della Costituzione ticinese (" On the reform of the Ticino's constitution "), a call for reform, including an outline of how a liberal constitution should be drafted, and a strong criticism of the canton's restaurative and conservative institutions.
The governorship of Ioannis Kapodistrias ( 1828 – 1831 ) saw a drastic reorganization of the national military: a Secretariat on Army and Naval Affairs and the Hellenic Army Academy were created, the Army engineering corps was founded ( 28 July 1829 ), and a concerted effort was made to reform the various irregular forces into regular light infantry battalions.
In 1830, after the passing of the Catholic Relief Act 1829, he was returned to parliament for the Tipperary constituency, and he attached himself to the Liberal Party and voted for the great measures of the reform era.
Wyse wrote Historical Sketch of the late Catholic Association of Ireland ( London 1829 ), Education reform or the necessity of a national system of education ( London 1836 ), An Excursion in the Peloponnesus ( 1858, new ed.
The nineteenth century saw active widow reform movements in Bengal — the ban on Sati in 1829 and the Hindu Widow Re-marriage Act of 1856 were key milestones – but the related social practices took a long while to die out and indeed, still remain in part.
The slowness of liberal reform between 1771 and 1829 led to much bitterness in Ireland which underpinned Irish nationalism until recent times.
He opposed democratic reform at the Virginia Convention of 1829 – 30, and during the nullification movement in South Carolina, he defended the principle of nullification and the state itself in a series of letters entitled " An Exposition of the Virginia Resolutions of 1798 ".
* Thomas Attwood-founder of the Birmingham Political Union and National Political Union ( 1829 ) in 1829, which pushed for democratic reform, feted as a hero after the Great Reform Act 1832, later an MP for Birmingham.
In 1829, an attempt was made to reform ( induce repentance ) convicts by incarcerating them in a penitentiary.
The issue which finally brought the reform issue to a head was Catholic Emancipation in 1829, which removed barriers to Roman Catholics being elected to the House of Commons.
The slow process of reform from 1778 led on to Catholic Emancipation in 1829.

reform and was
Hearst's luck was even poorer when he had a chat with Franklin K. Lane, a prominent California journalist and reform politician, whom he asked for his support.
In reference to Brown's raid she wrote, `` though we are non-resistants and religiously believe it better to reform by moral and not by carnal weapons, we know thee was anemated by the most generous and philanthropic motives ''.
The revised procedure was acclaimed as a long-overdue reform.
They would become tagged as men not interested in being purely real estate `` professionals '' but agitators for some kind of `` cause '' or `` reform '', and this was no longer to be a `` pro ''.
From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.
During the Carolingian epoch the custom grew up of granting these as regular heritable fiefs or benefices, and by the 10th century, before the great Cluniac reform, the system was firmly established.
This proposal, which was understandably appealing to Albert, had already been discussed by some of his relatives ; but it was necessary to proceed cautiously, and he assured Pope Adrian VI that he was anxious to reform the Order and punish the knights who had adopted Lutheran doctrines.
He also was the one bishop that published ecclesiastical legislation during Edward the Confessor's reign, attempting to discipline and reform the clergy.
The able and forceful empress Euphrosyne tried in vain to sustain his credit and his court ; Vatatzes, the favourite instrument of her attempts at reform, was assassinated by the emperor's orders.
He was a key figure in the Danish policies of territorial expansion in the Baltic Sea, Europeanization in close relationship with the Holy See, and reform in the relation between the Church and the public.
He was a powerful supporter of the movement for spelling reform as a means of promoting the spread of the English language.
This was intended to be the nec plus ultra of reform opera, a completely new synthesis of poetry and music that was an 18th-century anticipation of the ideals of Richard Wagner.
In part this position was also necessary, as otherwise there would have been no means to elicit or initiate reform of the church.
Administrative law in the People's Republic of China was virtually non-existent before the economic reform era initiated by Deng Xiaoping.
The municipality Abdera was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units:
By the first century BC brass was available in sufficient supply to use as coinage in Phrygia and Bithynia, and after the Augustan currency reform of 23 BC it was also used to make Roman dupondii and sestertii.
Some of his policies, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and welfare reform, have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance, while on other issues his stance was left-of-center.
When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.
When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.
The loan was used to develop financial markets, improve social safety net programmes, strengthen the tax system, reform agricultural and energy sectors, and further liberalise trade.
Due to the economic crisis that affected most former Eastern bloc countries, a steady reform in the military could not be carried out ; much of the equipment fell into disrepair and some of it was smuggled and sold to the international black market.

reform and set
The war set in motion profound social changes within Britain and led to a popular desire for social reform.
On 16 June, Dewar set out the legislative programme for the Executive which included: an Education bill to improve standards in Scottish schools ; land reform to give right of access to the countryside, a bill to abolish the feudal system of land tenure ; and a bill to establish National Parks in Scotland.
He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.
The Long Parliament comprised " a set of the greatest geniuses for government, that the world ever saw embarked together in one common cause " and whose actions produced an effect, which, at the time, made their country the wonder and admiration of the world, and is still felt and exhibited far beyond the borders of that country, in the progress of reform, and the advancement of popular liberty.
This form of transnational policing plays an increasingly important role in United Nations peacekeeping and this looks set to grow in the years ahead, especially as the international community seeks to develop the rule of law and reform security institutions in States recovering from conflict ( Goldsmith and Sheptycki, 2007 ) With transnational police development-aid the imbalances of power between donors and recipients are stark and there are questions about the applicability and transportability of policing models between jurisdictions ( Hills, 2009 ).
Like his famous predecessor Innocent III, he set his mind on the achievement of two great goals: the recovery of the Holy Land in the Fifth Crusade and a spiritual reform of the entire Church.
In October 1990, due to mounting pressure from both within and outside the country for political and economic reform, president Momoh set up a constitutional review commission to review the 1978 one-party constitution.
In 1992, SGI decided to clean up and reform IRIS GL and made the bold move of allowing the resulting OpenGL API to be cheaply licensed by SGI's competitors, and set up an industry-wide consortium to maintain the OpenGL standard ( the OpenGL Architecture Review Board ).
For the next few years Motoyasu set to reform the Matsudaira clan and pacifying Mikawa.
Meanwhile, Edward VI, despite the fact that he was only a child of nine, had his mind set on religious reform.
; that during the present year the Alabama Indemnity has been paid, and the charge of the Ashantee War will be met out of revenue ; and that in estimating, as we can now venture to do, the income of the coming year ( and, for the moment assuming the general scale of charge to continue as it was fixed during the last Session ), we do not fear to anticipate as the probable balance a surplus exceeding rather than falling short of 5, 000, 000l ... The first item ... which I have to set down in the financial arrangements proper for the first year is relief, but relief coupled with reform, of local taxation ... It has ... been the happy fortune of Mr. Lowe to bring it income tax down, first from 6d.
The coinage reform of 1816 set up a weight / value ratio and physical sizes for silver coins.
The coinage reform of 1816 set up a weight / value ratio and physical sizes for silver coins.
In December 1237 Edmund set out for Rome, hoping to enlist the pope on the side of ecclesiastical reform.
It was only at the end of the 19th century that those following the reform of Tourraine ( by this time known as the " strict observance ") and the Mantuan Congregation were formally merged under one set of Constitutions.
Napoleon set out to reform the French legal system in accordance with the ideas of the French Revolution, because the old feudal and royal laws seemed confusing and contradictory to the people.
In 1966 he published the Quikscript manual which set out the alphabet's rationale, and briefly discussed different possible methods of alphabet reform.
Recalling the era in 1870, Paulina Wright Davis set Finney's decision as the beginning of the American women's reform movement.
The new CDA leader, Ruud Lubbers, set an ambitious reform program in motion, which included budget cuts, reform of the old age and disability pensions and liberalization of public services.
Samaranch set up a commission to investigate the corruption and introduced reform of the bid process as a result of the scandal.
The brutal shooting of workers marching to the Tsar with a petition for reform on 9 January 1905 ( known as the " Bloody Sunday "), which set in motion the Revolution of 1905, seems to have pushed Gorky more decisively toward radical solutions.
Neoliberalism had not only become a term with negative connotations employed principally by critics of market reform, but it also had shifted in meaning from a moderate form of liberalism to a more radical and economically libertarian set of ideas.
Sheldon Richman, editor of the libertarian journal, The Freeman, also sees the IMF imposing “ corporatist-flavored ‘ neoliberalism ’ on the troubled countries of the world .” The policies of spending cuts coupled with tax increases give “ real market reform a bad name and set back the cause of genuine liberalism .” Paternalistic supranational bureaucrats foster “ long-term dependency, perpetual indebtedness, moral hazard, and politicization, while discrediting market reform and forestalling revolutionary liberal change .” Free market economist Richard M. Salsman goes further and argues the IMF “ is a destructive, crisis-generating global welfare agency that should be abolished .” “ In return for bailouts, countries must enact such measures as new taxes, high interest rates, nationalizations, deportations, and price controls .” Writing in Forbes, E. D. Kain sees the IMF as " paving the way for international corporations entrance into various developing nations " and creating dependency.

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