8 sentences with 'reforms'
Example sentences and phrases with the word reforms and other words derived from it.
• « These reforms were completed when the Neo-Babylonians conquered Judah in 586 BCE and enslaved tens of thousands of Hebrews. The impact of this event was enormous, because it led to the belief that Yahweh could not be tied to one place. »
• « He enacted other legal reforms that reduced the overall power of the aristocracy, and in a clever move, he had the laws written on wooden panels and posted throughout the city so that anyone who could read could examine them (until then, the only people who really knew the laws were the aristocratic judges, which made it easy for them to abuse their power). »
• « The Gracchus reforms were temporarily successful: although both were assassinated, the central Gracchus effort to redistribute land achieved its goal. »
• « In retrospect, the historical significance of the Gracchi was less in their reforms and more in the manner of their deaths - for the first time, leading Roman politicians had simply been killed (or had killed themselves rather than been killed) for their politics. It became increasingly clear that real power was moving away from rhetoric and towards military might. »
• « This extraordinary power did not provoke resistance largely because the practical reforms that Augustus introduced were effective. »
• « Peasants bore the brunt of Diocletian's reforms; most of the remaining independent farmers became serfs, one step above slaves. »