Sentences with phrase «reforming zeal»

He improved the cardinalate, the body of leading clergy in and near Rome, by appointing to it men of reforming zeal outside Rome and its environs, thus making it more representative of Western Europe as a whole.

But just those who have welcomed the Council and its almost revolutionary aggiornamento and are fired with a radical reforming zeal must ask themselves whether they really want to serve the true spirit of Christianity and to confess the folly of the cross.

Through the dusty and yellowing files they will go, the intellectuals of that day, anxious to temper their natural reforming zeal with some sympathetic understanding of how Catholics felt and behaved in the late 1960s.

The coalition's reforming zeal after the expenses scandal yielded precious few improvements, and those which did result - like the Fixed Term Parliament Act - have been dismissed as counterproductive.

The referendum was lost but at that point the Lib Dems could still point to House of Lords reform as a sign that their constitutional reforming zeal was far from being finished.

But there's no widespread reform zeal, either.

She is the candidate that offers a radical reforming zeal.

This beloved Now, so real and special to ourselves, is already slithering off into «the dark backward and abysm of time»: Soon it will be something odd - seeming and remote, an historical period, an object for detached criticism, for a later generation's reforming zeal.

The result is that Britain has developed a stop - go approach to reform, whereby reviews are entered into with reforming zeal, only for the ensuing proposals to be shelved by a failure of the main political parties to reach agreement.

The reforming zeal of autumn 2010 will not exist this summer.

When Michael Gove took over at the Ministry of Justice after the election it was seen as his opportunity to introduce to the legal system some of the reforming zeal clearly demonstrated at the Department for Education.

His reforming zeal has not waned.