I said, and he acknowledged, that the Shah had tried to institute some reforms directed toward liberalization of the regime.
While it has instituted some reforms in the last year, Prime Minister George Papandreou said to me, "What is most frustrating is the resistance in the system.
But two weeks ago, Iranian leaders called on Mr. Assad to institute some reforms, in part, analysts said, to try to stabilize his presidency and to improve Iran's image in the Arab world.
It instituted some reforms by, for instance, making it easier for women to work, appointing women to the King's advisory board, and allowing women to vote and run as candidates in municipal elections.
Throughout the Middle East, autocratic regimes are bribing their people with money and instituting some reforms in a blatantly transparent attempt to sidestep the revolts.
And while the MPD has instituted some reforms in recent years for procedures in sexual assault cases, many of the problems Human Rights Watch identified persisted after initial reforms were instituted in 2008.
Facing protests from community organizations and scrutiny from human rights groups, Brazil's federal and state governments have instituted some reforms to reduce the number of police killings and tackle what human rights groups have called a "culture of impunity" for law enforcement officers who use lethal force.
Facing protests from community organizations and scrutiny from human rights groups, Brazil's federal and state governments have instituted some reforms to reduce the number of police killings and tackle what human rights groups have called a "culture of impunity" for law enforcement officers who use lethal force.
Balaguer's government made strong economic gains and instituted some social reforms, but large segments of the population still remained dissatisfied.
These sorts of alleged abuses persist despite a 2006 Department of Defense investigation into foreign workers' mistreatment on U.S. bases, which led the military to institute some meaningful reforms.
And few years before that study came out, one of its authors — Roger Kopple of Fairleigh Dickinson University — and I wrote a piece about how we could institute some meaningful reforms to get those incentives pointing in the right direction.
