Reformer in a sentence as a noun

], and needs some heat to run the steam reformer.

The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away.

The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, I dont see the use of this; let us clear it away.

Cornyn was a judicial system reformer in Texas as both a judge and as AG. Open government and fighting good ol' boy corruption were his beat.

" To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away.

To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: If you dont see the use of it, I certainly wont let you clear it away.

That's been a popular view among progressive education reformers as well.

The third is a bit of red herring: I don't know any serious reformer who says that performance should be measured entirely based on testing or that testing is perfect.

Each successive would-be reformer learned from the mistakes of his predecessors and changed his strategy accordingly.

At red heat in the absence of air, natgas basically "burns" steam generating reformer gas or syngas or whatever which is carbon monoxide and hydrogen.

There are reformers who get over this difficulty by assuming that all their fathers were fools; but if that be so, we can only say that folly appears to be a hereditary disease.

I learned a great phrase over the weekend that perfectly applies to #2, "Chesterton's fence"[1]:"[the] intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away.

Perhaps he's empathic enough to realize what it's like to have few choices, then have a well-meaning but paternalistic social reformer swoop in and take some of those choices away, pat you on the head, and drive off back to his nice neighborhood.

[2]"Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman.

For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it." Niccolo Machiavelli

""Actually, I happen to have been very lucky myself and gone to an experimental-progresive Deweyite school, from about the time I was age one-and-a-half to twelve [John Dewey was an American philosopher and educational reformer].

The impractical visionary is far less often the guide and precursor than he is the embittered foe of the real reformer, of the man who, with stumblings and shortcoming, yet does in some shape, in practical fashion, give effect to the hopes and desires of those who strive for better things.

The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away.

For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

Reformer definitions

noun

a disputant who advocates reform

See also: reformist crusader meliorist

noun

an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel; "a catalytic reformer"