reform-minded

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Adj.1.reform-minded - favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
governing, government activity, government, governance, administration - the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government"
liberal - tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
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Summary: 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.
In the process of covering methodological and ethical aspects of ethnographic research from gaining access to people and places to study, to writing up reports about them which "make the strange familiar and the familiar strange," she presents examples of varieties of such research including the Chicago School's formalism, reform-minded critical and feminist ethnography, focus groups, grounded theory, and postmodern ethnographies.
to choose a mayor from among reform-minded incumbent Nakada, oceanographer Yasuo Matsukawa and former company employee Kenjiro Endo.
American groups like the National Endowment for Democracy and numerous international organizations have been working with and strengthening reform-minded elements in these countries for years, and to some extent we are now seeing the fruits of that quiet involvement.
Steve Krueger, who helped shape the Boston-based Voice of the Faithful movement into a powerful mouthpiece for reform-minded lay Catholics, resigned Sept.
Here too, however, even reform-minded districts find it difficult to furlough employees or to redistribute resources.
His reform-minded Finance Minister Salam Fayyad appeared to be a likely candidate for the job, a position envisaged by a peace "roadmap" drafted by the so-called Quartet of the US, EU, UN and Russian negotiators.
The push for change began in 1997, when Iranians overwhelmingly elected Mohammad Khatami, a reform-minded cleric and former head of the National Library, as President.
Had the result been valid, the moderate nationalist Vojislav Konstunica would have won with 67% of the vote, with the reform-minded economist Miroljub Labus on 31%.
The reform-minded new mayor also said he reviewed the existing list of the Yokohama mayor's social expense accounts and decided to ban the payments of condolence money at funerals.
Chapter three details issues that every reform-minded philanthropist should ask him or herself before writing a check.
Also in 1899, a reform-minded nobleman, Prince Serge Volkonsky, took over as director of the imperial theaters and tried to put some modernity into the ballet training and repertory.
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