The point is made not to be difficult about Reyes, but to acknowledge how swiftly time flies in sports, how quickly the window of opportunity can close.
When she wonders, thinking back, if a crucial act "hadn't been purely personal, aimed against Minette Swift as an individual, and not 'racist,' " she must also acknowledge "how swiftly and crudely the personal becomes the racial".
Paul Keating delivered his Redfern speech, the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its final report and the issues raised in both were acknowledged and swiftly consigned to the past, as if acknowledgement alone had fixed the problem.
Wolves' owner and chairman, Steve Morgan, swiftly acknowledged Curbishley's credentials, saying: "He has a great track record and the calibre of what we're looking for, but there are a number of other candidates.
Even if the breached organization doesn't have all of the details at its fingertips to answer the who, what, when, where and why of a breach, openly and swiftly acknowledging that a breach has occurred will go a long way in keeping consumer trust intact.
Officials swiftly acknowledged that one site (the Ministry of Fear, I dubbed it) was a security headquarters, seemingly a legitimate target for NATO and its charge to protect civilians.
Although they are likely to acknowledge that the Lehman transaction swiftly proved financially advantageous, Varley and Diamond will argue that Barclays was taking an immense risk by buying a deeply troubled business at the most turbulent point of the global financial crisis.
In December 1970, "Congratulations" songwriters Bill Martin and Phil Coulter claimed for royalties, with the result that the composer's credit for Harrison's track was swiftly changed to acknowledge Martin and Coulter.
Demonstrate your commitment to diversity by acknowledging tensions and resolving them swiftly.
Then after acknowledging the past, he swiftly moved on to plans for the future.
The reports acknowledge that while the magnitude of these risks — sea level rise, drought, disease, the destruction of marine- and land-based ecosystems — are difficult to predict, society would be wise to move swiftly and aggressively to minimize them.
