The efforts of the self-described " reformers ", who objected to (" protested ") the doctrines, rituals, and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led to the creation of new national Protestant churches.

Even in countries where registration is the individual's responsibility, many reformers, seeking to maximize voter turnout, have pushed for wider availability of the required forms ; one such effort in the United States led to the passage of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (" Motor Voter Law ") and similar laws, which required states to offer voter registration at motor vehicle departments ( driver's license offices ) as well as disability centers, public schools, and public libraries, and to accept mail-in voter registration.

Within the realm of essay writing, he published Figures del temps (" Figures of Times "), Yxart award ( 1957 ), Judicis Finals (" Final Judgments ") ( 1960 ), Diccionari per a ociosos (" Dictionary for Idlers ") ( 1964 ), Causar-se d ' esperar (" Causing Oneself to Wait ") ( 1965 ), L ' home, mesura de totes les coses (" The Man, Measure of All Things ") ( 1967 ), and others — always within the tradition moral root of classical humanism, close in spirit to the moralists and French reformers ( from Montaigne to the encyclopedists ), as a critic and skeptic noted for his acid humor.

Howard repeatedly clashed with judges and prison reformers as he sought to clamp down on crime through a series of ' tough ' measures, such as reducing the right to silence of defendants in their police interviews and at their trials as part of 1994's Criminal Justice and Public Order Act.

She assisted in establishing the Woman's National Loyal League to help pass the Thirteenth Amendment and thereby abolish slavery, after which she helped form the largest group of like-minded women's rights reformers, the politically-moderate American Woman Suffrage Association, which worked for decades at the state level in favor of women's right to vote.

The lines between anti-machine Reform Democrats and pro-machine Regular Democrats are not always clear: often, once reformers achieve office they often take advantage of patronage to establish a machine in their own right.

In contrast with objective reporting, the journalists, whom Roosevelt dubbed " muckrakers ", saw themselves primarily as reformers and were politically engaged.

As a " true reformer ", Mackenzie was opposed to many of his Reform colleagues, whom Mackenzie labelled " sham reformers ".

Unlike other Muslim reformers, the Mahdi did not advocate the application of ijtihad but " claimed to receive direct inspiration from God ", so that his own proclamations superseded traditional jurisprudence.

" Protestant reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin both stressed the absolute sovereignty of God's will, with Luther writing that " for will there is no cause or reason that can be laid down as a rule or measure for it ", and Calvin writing that " everything which wills must be held to be righteous by the mere fact of his willing it.

Some intellectuals and reformers criticized the campaign for being regressive, akin to " being drowned in a red sea ", and bringing back painful memories from the Cultural Revolution.

Diarmaid MacCulloch, a historian of the Reformation, wrote that the reason why the early reformers upheld Mary ’ s perpetual virginity was that she was " the guarantee of the Incarnation of Christ ", a teaching that was being denied by the same radicals that were denying Mary ’ s perpetual virginity.

Casini knows that and, through the Union of the Centre, the embryo of a future " party of the nation ", is trying to open his party to all the " centrists ", the " Christian democrats ", the " liberals " and the " reformers ".

Arbitristas, a Spanish word meaning " projectors ", referring to a group of reformers in 17th century Spain.

* David E. Kaplan, " Mission Impossible: The inside story of how a band of reformers tried — and failed — to change America's spy agencies ", U. S. News & World Report, August 2, 2004.

When their study of the New Testament led the reformers to begin to practice Baptism by Immersion, the nearby Redstone Baptist Association invited Brush Run Church to join with them for the purpose of fellowship.

Arbenz ’ government was attempting to be neutral ; however constant pressure eventually had led him to rely more heavily on more dedicated reformers in revolutionary organizations.

The historicist method is what led reformers throughout Europe to declare that the Pope was the man of sin sitting on the seven hills of Rome.

The 11th and 12th centuries witnessed the founding of several great Berber dynasties led by religious reformers and each based on a tribal confederation that dominated the Maghrib ( also seen as Maghreb ; refers to North Africa west of Egypt ) and Al-Andalus for more than 200 years.

The political reformers at court, called the New Policies Group ( 新法, Xin Fa ), were led by Emperor Shenzong of Song and the Chancellors Fan Zhongyan and Wang Anshi, while the political conservatives were led by Chancellor Sima Guang and Empress Dowager Gao, regent of the young Emperor Zhezong of Song.

After Mao's death in 1976, reformers led by Deng Xiaoping gained prominence.

The initiatives of the Gregorian reformers led to greater contact between Sardinia and the continent, especially through the desires of the judges to establish monasteries with monks from continental monasteries at Montecassino and Marseille.

The Lollards, religious reformers led by John Wyclif, had enjoyed the protection of Joan of Kent, but the violent climax of the popular movement for reform reduced the feisty Joan to a state of terror, while leaving the King with an improved reputation.

The juxtaposition of the poverty, homelessness, exploitive work conditions, prostitution, and infant mortality of Whitechapel and other East End locales with some of the greatest personal wealth the world has ever seen made it a focal point for leftist reformers and revolutionaries of all kinds, from George Bernard Shaw, whose Fabian Society met regularly in Whitechapel, to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who boarded and led rallies in Whitechapel during his exile from Russia.

This brought the attentions of social reformers during the mid-18th century and led to the formation of unions and workers associations at the end of the century.

The reformers, led by Archdeacon Hildebrand, later Pope Gregory VII, opposed the older type of bishop, rich and installed by the lay powers.

The reformers, led by former Yugoslav President Vojislav Koštunica, have been unable to gain control of the Serbian presidency because three successive presidential elections have failed to produce the required 50 % turnout.

When their study of the New Testament led the reformers to begin to practice baptism by immersion, the nearby Redstone Baptist Association invited Brush Run Church to join with them for the purpose of fellowship.

In 1832 the group of reformers led by the Campbells ( known as the " Disciples of Christ ") merged with a similar group that began in Kentucky under the leadership of Barton W. Stone.

The pent-up frustrations caused by lack of political reform over a period of generations led the revolution to spiral in ways unimaginable only a few years earlier, and indeed unplanned and unanticipated by the initial wave of reformers.

Just attending services led by reformers such as Cotton and Wheelwright was not sufficient for many Puritan worshipers, who wanted more avenues for expressing their sense of religious rebirth.

The organisation was founded in 1824 ( without the " royal " prefix ) as the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; it was established by a group of 22 reformers led by Richard Martin MP, William Wilberforce MP and the Reverend Arthur Broome in ‘ Old Slaughter ’ s Coffee House ’, St Martin's Lane, near the Strand.

The concept of nationalism continued strong, however, and sporadic outbreaks led by such inveterate reformers as Giuseppe Mazzini occurred in several parts of the peninsula down to 1848 – 49.

This struggle finally led to armed rebellions in 1837 and 1838 led by reformers from the Parti canadien.

The reformers, led by former Yugoslav President Vojislav Koštunica, have been unable to gain control of the Serbian presidency because three successive presidential elections have failed to produce the required 50 % turnout.

The group led by Lovett felt that the workers were too weak to attain the Charter, therefore it was for enlisting the aid of middle class reformers.

However, in that decade, progressive reformers such as Alcott, influenced by Pestalozzi as well as Friedrich Fröbel and Johann Friedrich Herbart, began to advocate writing about subjects from students ' personal experiences.

During the early 20th century in America, gambling became outlawed and banned by state legislation and social reformers of the time.

Constantine's reign of 43 years, exceeded in Scotland only by that of King William the Lion before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, is believed to have played a defining part in the gaelicisation of Pictland, in which his patronage of the Irish Céli Dé monastic reformers was a significant factor.

While the reformers and the Baptists shared the same beliefs in baptism by immersion and congregational polity, it was soon clear that the reformers were not traditional Baptists.

Many reformers focused on reforming society by reforming education on more scientific, humanistic, pragmatic or democratic principles.

He tried to gain, by his continued correspondence with Luther and other reformers such as Urbanus Rhegius, efficient men for the preaching of the gospel and for the organization of the evangelical church.

One approach, the regulative principle of worship, favoured by many Zwinglians, Calvinists and some radical reformers, considered anything that was not directly authorised by the Bible to be a novel and Catholic introduction to worship, which was to be rejected.

The radicalized by the recent events reformers, in the still nominally Commonwealth area and in exile, were soon working on national insurrection preparations.

In 1669 the city of Heraklion, on Crete, which at one time boasted at least 120 painters, finally fell to the Turks, and from that time Greek icon painting went into a decline, with a revival attempted in the 20th century by art reformers such as Photios Kontoglou, who emphasized a return to earlier styles.

Calvin was invited to lead a church of French refugees in Strasbourg by that city's leading reformers, Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito.

At the same time, Calvin was dismayed by the lack of unity among the reformers.

This was followed by an open letter to the pope ( Admonitio paterna Pauli III ) in 1544, in which Calvin admonished Paul III for depriving the reformers of any prospect of rapprochement.

Solano López consolidated his power after his father's death in 1862 by silencing several hundred critics and would-be reformers through imprisonment.

The Phrenological Society of Edinburgh founded by George and Andrew Combe was an example of the credibility of phrenology at the time, and included a number of extremely influential social reformers and intellectuals, including the publisher Robert Chambers, the astronomer John Pringle Nichol, the evolutionary environmentalist Hewett Cottrell Watson and asylum reformer William A. F.

In 2009, the king made significant personnel changes to the government by appointing reformers to key positions and the first woman to a ministerial post.

An argument then broke out between a group of reformers based in York and backed by Bernard of Clairvaux, the head of the Cistercian order, who preferred William of Rievaulx as the new archbishop, and Stephen and his brother Henry of Blois, who preferred various Blois family relatives.

Consequently, Taft lost the support of antitrust reformers ( who disliked his conservative rhetoric ), of big business ( which disliked his actions ), and of Roosevelt, who felt humiliated by his protégé.

Hobbes ' work was condemned by reformers for its defense of absolutism, and by traditionalists for its claim that the power of government derives from the power of its subjects rather than the will of God.

A similar dilemma of the commons had been discussed by agrarian reformers since the 18th century.

The controversial new book was not welcomed by either reformers or Catholic conservatives ; and it was especially condemned in Devon and Cornwall, where traditional Catholic loyalty was at its strongest.