social reform

基本解释

But the religion that Mr Obama embraced—the religion of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King—was a force for social reform.
但奥巴马同亚伯拉罕•林肯和马丁•路德金的信仰相同，而这种信仰同时也是社会改革力量。
It is not surprising that some philosophers, such as Thomas Malthus and Jeremy Bentham, tried to remove emotion from their visions of social reform.
而哲学家们，如托马斯•马尔萨斯和杰尼米•边沁，尝试去掉情感成分来看待社会改革的努力也就不足为奇了。

She worked toward social change through the womens reform movement.
There it had less to do often with social forms of reform although that's not entirely true than it had to do with the Civil Rights revolution and the Vietnam War.
通常来说,它与改革的社会形态关联较小,但是它与民权革命和越战的关系,也没有人们认为的那么紧密
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Throughout his speech, the prime minister promised further change and reform, including holding bankers accountable and cracking down on crime and anti-social behavior.

Sarkozy, the tough-talking former interior minister, won on a platform of economic and social reform.
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His Utopian community in Florida stood in the great tradition of populist social reform.
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