If he s a reformer, few are convinced.

Russia found a young reformer in Mikhail Gorbachev too late.

The rebirth of Singh the reformer came after a long wait.

Former Estonian Prime Minister Mart Laar was the most radical European reformer.

Chubais, a one time reformer, is now totally complicit in the regime s policies.

But the same could have been said of the early utterances of Deng, modern China s greatest reformer.

Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

Determined to outbid Gorbachev as a reformer, he persuaded liberals to overcome their distrust of his provincial manners.

Angela Merkel, the Christian Democrats candidate, is a reformer, holding out hope for Germany s future and that of Europe.

Interior Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram, a tough reformer, has this problem in his sights, but it cannot be solved by better policing alone.

And Saif al Islam s recent support for his father suggests that he is not the liberal reformer many took him to be.

Another concerns Father Hudson, an intelligent and effective reformer of the church who is privately the most debauched character in the book.

If a reformer is to win he must prove that he will be able to sway Iran s political structures toward a reform agenda.

In his first term, Putin appeared to be an authoritarian reformer, undertaking substantial market reforms, such as introducing a 13 flat income tax.

Xi s desire to become China s next great reformer may well be why his government has been investing so much energy in lauding Deng s achievements.

Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, a liberal reformer, has little in common with Ahmed El Zind, the head of the Judges Club and a Mubarak loyalist.

Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 8 July 1939), was an English physician, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality.

By contrast, Zhao embodied a chapter in Chinese history when to be a reformer meant to take on not only the economy, but every aspect of life.

Basava () (also known as Bhakti Bhandari Basavanna () or Basaveshwara (), (1134 1196)) was an Indian philosopher, statesman, Kannada poet and a social reformer in what is now Karnataka, India.

If Europe and the US do their part, Erdoğan may be persuaded to resume the role of human rights reformer that he played during his first several years in office.

DURHAM In 1842, the English social reformer Edwin Chadwick documented a 30 year discrepancy between the life expectancy of men in the poorest social classes and that of the gentry.

In Iran, observers got a taste of this problem in 2010, when Nokia Siemens aided in the surveillance and arrest of Iranian journalist and political reformer Isa Saharkhiz in June 2010.

In the past, he clipped the wings of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who had strong ties to the merchant class, and of Mohammad Khatami, a reformer whose support came from Westernized middle class professionals.

A daughter of the Victorian reformer and statesman Richard Cobden, she was an early proponent of women's rights, and in 1889 was one of two women elected to the inaugural London County Council.

This debunks another myth that Putin, now back in charge, will abandon his vulgar anti Western rhetoric and become a reformer, understanding that only a democratic Russia can maintain its territorial integrity and sovereignty.

From 1922 she was associated with the school farm, Schulfarm Insel Scharfenberg, begun by Wilhelm Blume in Berlin and was a frequent visitor to the Odenwaldschule founded in 1910 by the educational reformer Paul Geheeb.

moderate reformer, as opposed to suffragette) Millicent Garrett Fawcett wrote the introduction to the centenary edition of the Rights of Woman , cleansing the memory of Wollstonecraft and claiming her as the foremother of the struggle for the vote.

When Moses was about to attack their enemy , he said , Moses , do you want to kill me as you slew a soul the other day ? Do you want to become a tyrant in the land , not a reformer ?

Saif cultivated a reputation for being a reformer he called for a national reconciliation process with opposition groups, supposedly liberalized the media, supported charity and development initiatives, and most importantly, became a face that the West could talk to.

Consider Deng Xiaoping, China s most successful reformer (the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 notwithstanding). The grand coalition that he forged, against all odds, upon his return to power in 1979 was essential to bringing about the economic transformation that followed.

The presidency of Mohammad Khatami, an avowed reformer, who served eight years, beginning in 1997, convinced the Supreme Leader that his authority would be assured only if the presidency was held by a subservient fundamentalist such as the current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

But now the delusional and ignorant want to believe that Putin will become a reformer this time around. I remember a similar analysis in 2000, when experts tried to equate Putin s KGB background with US President George H.W. Bush s years as Director of the CIA.

But reformists ask if the Supreme Leader does not even permit the Khatami faction to have a newspaper, would he really have allowed Khatami to become president? Even if any reformer does become president, will he be able to overcome his differences with the Supreme Leader?