But notable because they point to how a political majority favoring specific reforms may yet be assembled.
A 1990 parliamentary commission looking into the robbery-murders urged specific reforms.
Beyond public attitudes, the police and the courts could do much to build confidence in the criminal justice system with specific reforms.
"The US needs to press for specific reforms to make these conditions possible."
It needs a permanent source of political pressure from citizens and business groups - not just general disgust, but advocacy for specific reforms.
Poland, two years earlier, had showed that Western aid tied to specific reforms could work.
Every day we need to verify whether specific reforms are being implemented in Vietnam.
Our money must be conditional upon very specific reforms in this society.
The citizens of Moldova are hoping for specific reforms that would improve their lives.
This is coupled with the fact that the state did little in the way of specific reforms aimed at improving public services.