Example sentences for: reforming

How can you use “reforming” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The answers are a nice springboard for talking about: 1) how you go about reforming language, and what limitations you'd face (just saying it won't make it so); 2) how expressions like "you know" actually function linguistically (people aren't saying "you know" just to annoy you, even if that's the effect); and 3) the nature of language etiquette, taboo, euphemism, and context.

  • A report in the Guardian Friday from Tehran said that conservative clerics have struck a blow at Iran's reforming President Mohammed Khatami by closing the newspaper Salam , which helped his rise to power.

  • Sure, notes the Post , there was the (budget-busting, drunk-driving-ignoring) highway bill, but what about tobacco legislation, campaign finance reform, a student loan bill, health care, food stamps for needy immigrants, child care subsidies, reforming the Endangered Species Act and Superfund, or paying up our U.N. bill?

  • As long as members of Congress continue to divert attention from the fact that money flows in at the same rate that favors flow out, the televised "fight" over their fund-raising methodologies will allow them to pretend they're reforming the system.

  • The distinction between protecting and reforming Social Security is anything but clear: Some candidates such as Steve Forbes suggest that the best way to protect Social Security is to reform it , while even those candidates who advocate preserving the current system--such as Bush and Gore--advocate some significant changes . "Reform" could mean any number of things, from minor tweaks (the addition of individual savings accounts) to more radical fixes (replacing Social Security taxes with privately managed individual accounts).


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