In some ways the grouping around Holmberg found common ground with the reformist anti-Soviet elements in the party, albeit only on a superficial level.

With no crisis, reformist elements in Iran can question the government without being accused of supporting the enemy.

It is true, as he says, that U.S. trade and diplomatic relations may help reformist elements in China.

Bentham was a representative of the reformist element of the time.

A new purge cleansed the Czechoslovak leadership of all reformist elements.

After Dubcek's election, reformist elements in the government feared a retrenchment of conservative policies.

This change was reflected by reformist elements within the communist party by installing Alexander Dubček as party leader.

Mr. Gorbachev's task at the party congress is to begin the process of forging a strong alliance with the reformist elements, personified by Boris Yeltsin.

The uprising was the first open breach between the government and reformist elements of the Russian nobility, which would subsequently widen.

I trust that, some day, the old guard of blinkered centralist leaders will be replaced by new reformist elements.