7 sentences with “programme”

In the process of reviving the ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Renaissance thinkers created a new programme of education: "humanist" education.

Marxism-Leninism was officially a political programme of peace, but nothing received as much attention or priority in the USSR as military power.

Five years later, Bill and Bob publicly released their "twelve-step programme" for quitting alcohol, partly based on the suggestions of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.

"We don't know why this happens, but we are investigating it," says Frank Bellino, endocrinology programme manager at the National Institute on Aging (INS) in the United States.

Simultaneously, Gorbachev introduced perestroika, meaning "restructuring". This programme was aimed at reforming the economy, above all by modernising industry and allowing limited market exchange.

That educational programme remained intact until the twentieth century, with the study of the classics a hallmark of elite education until it began to be displaced by the more specialised disciplinary studies of the modern university system that came into being near the end of the nineteenth century.

As described in the chapter on Imperialism, in 1909 a coup by army officers and political leaders known as the Committee of Union and Progress, but more often remembered as the "Young Turks", seized control of the Ottoman state and embarked on a rapid programme of Western-style reforms (including a growing obsession with Turkish "racial" identity at the expense of the Empire's other ethnicities).