A possible interpretation of Geithner's action is that he was "covering his ass", without serious expectation of effecting reform of what he knew to be systemic abuse.
"The Albanians will get the mechanisms to effect reforms," he said.
The United States threatened Thursday to impose travel bans on top Kenyan politicians if they did not move faster to effect reforms.
The vote gave Mr. Amato a year to put into effect reforms that his center-left predecessors had championed but failed to pass.
The incumbent, Cedric Dempsey, a longtime athletics administrator, recently asked for an extension of his eight-year term to effect reforms, specifically to defuse the financial "arms race" among the major powers.
Countermovements that avoid the backlash pattern typically try to undermine the group they oppose by taking some of the latter's aims as their own, thereby helping to effect reforms sought in the initial protest.
In 1561, with the support of the distinguished chancellor Michel de L'Hospital, she began by trying to propitiate the leaders of both religious factions, to effect reforms and economies by unassailably traditional methods, and to settle the religious conflict.
As muftī (Islāmic legal counsellor) for Egypt (from 1899), he effected reforms in Islāmic law, administration, and higher education and, although resisted by conservatives, broke the rigidity of Muslim ritual, dogma, and family ties.
To that end, the MARTELLY government in 2012 created a Commission for Commercial Code Reform, effected reforms to the justice sector, and inaugurated the Caracol industrial park in Haiti's north coast.
