Basically, don't expect lenient drug law reform or anything close to legalisation under her watch.
And as time has gone by it has seemed possible that by tying the two proposals together, Hall may have jeopardised his chances of delivering the production quota reforms so vital to securing a more lenient licence fee settlement.
Obama, who has presided over more deportations than any other president, has long faced protests from immigrant rights activists who argue that he has the power to craft a more lenient enforcement policy, despite opposition to immigration reform from Republicans in Congress.
He has has been one of the most outspoken opponents of immigration reform in Congress, and has labeled the Obama administration's lenient executive actions "overreach".
Ipra has been repeatedly criticized for being too lenient on officers accused of misconduct, and a police reform taskforce recommended the agency be scrapped completely.
"This is a very political game," said Lombardi, a former World Bank board director "What emerging economies are saying is that even if the 2010 reform package is not approved at least you have to be more lenient and concede more on the quota formula discussion".
Should a deal be reached on a new package of reforms it is understood that eurozone finance ministers would sign off a more lenient schedule that would cut the interest rate on the loans and delay the bulk of Athens' repayments beyond 2030, in return for clear commitments to create a more sustainable public budget.
In the wake of the intense backlash against Persky, public defenders and other criminal justice reform advocates have come to his defense, arguing that judges must have discretion to issue lenient sentences when appropriate.
Indeed, throughout the campaign, Mr. Rajoy and his party machine have sought to portray Mr. Zapatero as currying favor with "extreme radicals" by ushering in sweeping social reforms including the legalization of same-sex marriage, adoption rights for gays and lesbians and a more lenient divorce law.
Little more than a year ago, he and his allies dismissed a call by Stephen Byers, a former minister and fan of Tony Blair, to scrap inheritance tax altogether.Another of the government's tax reforms embarrassingly tore up one of Mr Brown's own pet measures, which turned out to be far too lenient towards private-equity bosses.
