What's the difference between meliorist and reformist?
Meliorist
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Reformist
Definition:
(n.) A reformer.
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(1) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(2) "Agreement in suspension", read the headline of the reformist Etemaad.
(3) The two reformists Mr Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have sought to portray themselves as the true heirs of the Islamic revolution's spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, but this tactic has since worn thin and Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his drive to paint Mousavi and Karroubi as western-run heretics.
(4) This demonetisation step reinforces Modi’s reformist and anti-corruption credentials and raises the prospect of higher long term growth potential,” they wrote in a note to clients.
(5) It’s clear she lends a sympathetic ear to many reformist ideas; in London last year she said: “We must constantly renew Europe’s political shape so that it keeps up with the times.” Beyond the platitudes, Merkel is open to reforms to the internal market, to competitiveness, to the bureaucracy and even to some of the institutions.
(6) Kaczynski is the co-founder, along with his late twin brother and former Polish president Lech, of the Law and Justice party – the second largest member of the European Conservatives and Reformists group after the Tories.
(7) While quality of build, tenant management and coping with a reformist government will all be key issues for the sector in 2011, financial management will be just as important as frontline services in delivering savings to replace grant funding in the coming years.
(8) He said: "This letter … says with a loud voice that Rouhani has the support of reformists and those seeking for democracy in Iran."
(9) It scarcely mattered that from the reformist point of view it is unambiguously better than the system we start out with.
(10) Enemies dismiss its moderate image and claim it is no different from Shia hardliners such as Mushayma, who called for a republic to replace the Al Khalifa dynasty, launched a campaign of civil disobedience and destroyed a dialogue between the opposition and the reformist Crown Prince Salman that might – just – have defused the crisis.
(11) More recently the so-called Iranian cyber army has attacked reformist websites, and the organisers have had their computer files deleted.
(12) Dercon, who met Fayadh during a trip to Saudi Arabia two years ago, said he was a victim of the power struggles among reformists, pragmatists and ultraconservatives in the Gulf state.
(13) The November crackdown was the biggest use of force against protesters in Burma since Thein Sein's reformist government took office in March 2011.
(14) Only reformists dare to say openly that bread-and-butter problems are linked inextricably to foreign policy.
(15) Economic and political reforms had led to increasing struggles between hardliners and reformists in the party leadership.
(16) Several leading arms-control experts have argued that the residual obstacles are more political than substantial, determined by the need of President Barack Obama’s administration and President Hassan Rouhani’s reformist government in Iran to reassure conservatives at home, rather than by the actual requirements of Iran’s nuclear energy programme or genuine nonproliferation concerns.
(17) Unlike the reformists, Iran's conservatives have so far failed to unite.
(18) Hedayat said: “Rafsanjani was the last influential figure reformists had within the power system, a person who could keep the hope for reform alive.
(19) Furthermore, the Tories are allied with PiS in the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European parliament.
(20) Although Kaminski was nominated by the new Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR) created by David Cameron, I decided to take the issue head on, even at the discomfiture of my own party.