reform-minded


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Synonyms for reform-minded

favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)

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TEHRAN: Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi will create an umbrella group made up of reform-minded political parties, a top aide told the Associated Press on Tuesday in the most concrete indication yet of how he will move forward after a government crackdown crushed street protests.
The foreign investment bill that reform-minded legislators prepared underwent so much change that it ended up deterring investment.
His reform-minded successor, President B J Habibie, is seeking dialogue on a solution to the bitter conflict in East Timor, although he rules out granting a vote on independence.
The second period, from 1530 to 1550, marks the diffusion of this interest beyond the court, especially after the Day of the Placards, when reform-minded humanists and printers fled to Lyon, Geneva, and beyond.
The original Board of Managers, which was largely drawn from the reform-minded Philadelphia Quaker business community, believed that by paying interest as a "reward for saving" it could contribute to the teaching of regular habits of work and thrift.
Some of the reform-minded mayors who are shrinking the state, such as Milwaukee's John Norquist and Philadelphia's Ed Rendell, are Democrats.
Summary: PRAGUE, July 13, 2010, SPA -- Czech President Vaclav Klaus has sworn in the reform-minded government of Prime Minister Petr Necas, ending the longest period without a proper Cabinet.
The reform-minded King Mohammed marked the 10th anniversary of his ascension to the throne on Thursday.
Back then, Iran's president was Mohammad Khatami, a reform-minded leader whose efforts to promote inter-cultural understanding earned him.
Takashima also said the ministry's selection of former journalist Taniguchi as one of its main spokesmen showed the organization remains reform-minded.
Kawaguchi earlier said she chose Takeuchi, 58, because she believes he is reform-minded, action-oriented and capable of gaining consensus within the scandal-tainted ministry as it continues internal reform efforts alongside its diplomatic activities.
Chretien said G-8 representatives are currently meeting with reform-minded African leaders to develop a concrete development program that will be presented at this year's G-8 summit in Canada.
All the core teachers had taught in both Soviet and post-Soviet times, were reform-minded, and represented ethnic and gender diversity.
The European Commission admitted on July 26 that it would not be able to make proposals to reform the EU's controversial banana import regime until the new EU Commission takes office under its reform-minded President, Romano Prodi, in September.
Nevertheless, Dunn does not see the Guzman text dominated by Counter-Reformation moral reform, but rather by reform-minded social justice of the sort found in Mateo Aleman's other texts.