Reform Bill

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Reform Bill

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Reform Act

n
1. (Historical Terms) history Brit any of several bills or acts extending the franchise or redistributing parliamentary seats, esp the acts of 1832 and 1867
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) history Brit any of several bills or acts extending the franchise or redistributing parliamentary seats, esp the acts of 1832 and 1867
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233), and the subsequent years when in Continental Europe despotic government reasserted itself and sternly suppressed liberal hopes and uprisings, while in England liberalism and democracy steadily and doggedly gathered force until by the Reform Bill of 1832 political power was largely transferred from the former small governing oligarchy to the middle class.
His early love of simplicity hardened into a rigid opposition not only to the materialistic modern industrial system but to all change--the Reform Bill, the reform of education, and in general all progressive political and social movements.
As to any provincial history in which the agents are all of high moral rank, that must be of a date long posterior to the first Reform Bill, and Peter Featherstone, you perceive, was dead and buried some months before Lord Grey came into office.
The first night they happened to fall on the chapters about the famine in Egypt, and Arthur began talking about Joseph as if he were a living statesman--just as he might have talked about Lord Grey and the Reform Bill, only that they were much more living realities to him.
When Colonel Dobbin quitted the service, which he did immediately after his marriage, he rented a pretty little country place in Hampshire, not far from Queen's Crawley, where, after the passing of the Reform Bill, Sir Pitt and his family constantly resided now.
He said that given the current difficult economic situation, the government is preparing to present the economic reform bill on the floor of the house on Friday, where amendments sought by the opposition will also be incorporated.
Senator Mian Ateeq of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) said the government would present the economic reform bill in parliament on Feb 1.
Senator Mian Ateeq said that the economic reform bill was needed to redress the long due issues and concerns of the business community and stock market and revive investors' confidence in the economy.
They are preparing a resolution recalling the budget reform bill endorsed by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), which proposes a shift from a multiyear obligation budget to an annual cash-based budget.
Some administrative points were removed from the electoral reform bill, she added.
Earlier, Khursheed Shah had pointed out that the government, despite having two-third majority in the house, could not complete the required number of members to pass the FATA Reform Bill.
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