In January, the foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, called Bahrain "a country which is travelling in the right direction" and "making significant reform".
Hammond has previously told the House of Commons that Bahrain, a long-standing ally and former protectorate of the UK, is "a country which is travelling in the right direction" and "making significant reform".
In the wake of those cases, Texas lawmakers have made significant reforms to criminal justice procedures to help prevent wrongful convictions.
Development analysts have praised the agency for giving poor countries an incentive to make significant reforms to qualify for its big contracts, including improving education for girls and making it easier for individuals to operate on-the-books businesses.
"If Qatar had shown any signs of making significant reforms to its labour system then this decision could have represented just reward for Qatar's progress, but as it stands it looks like the IAAF has just given its seal of approval to Qatar's callous indifference".
Regulators at the S.E.C. have resisted making significant reforms in recent years, but they are contemplating changes after several highly public technological breakdowns and concern about the dominant role played by high-speed trading firms, which now account for more than half of all trading.
Russia in particular promised to make significant reforms to allay concerns about human rights and its judicial system.
Individual countries, Spain most of all, have made significant reforms.
Following the opening statements, jurors heard from government witnesses who described efforts to alert Baca to the widespread abuses by deputies in the jails and the sheriff's failure to make significant reforms.
The political scientist Andrew Parkin said that one of Dunstan's main achievements was to debunk the notion that state governments and parliaments lacked the ability to make significant reforms with profound impacts.
