Examples of reformer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web European settlement dates to February 1733, when an English prison reformer led some 114 colonists to a bluff overlooking the Savannah River. — Alex Pulaski, Washington Post, 8 July 2022 But all that initial bigness mattered, establishing Reagan’s bona fides as a tax reformer — and as someone who would deliver on his promises. — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021 John Knox, the Scottish religious reformer and radical, had published The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women in 1558, the year of Elizabeth’s coronation. — Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2022 My older brother meanwhile became an adviser to the chief reformer and later Prime Minister, Yegor Gaidar. — Andrei Kolesnikov, CNN, 25 Dec. 2021 When the war ended in 1995, Dodik positioned himself as a reformer and founded a moderate alternative to Karadžić’s extremist party. — New York Times, 14 June 2022 To win, Villanueva presented himself to Democratic voters as a progressive reformer and convinced many of his liberal credentials by promising to limit the department’s cooperation in county jails with federal immigration authorities. — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022 While supporters hail Gascon as a reformer who is trying to change a criminal justice system fraught with inequity, critics say his moves have emboldened criminals who no longer fear harsh punishment, even for serious offenses. — Fox News, 5 May 2022 He is portrayed in the Western media as a liberal reformer. — Krithika Varagur, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2022 See More

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