"The government cannot be called the reformist government anymore if it goes ahead with the vote."

New democratic or reformist governments that lack power over the old guard can do little to reckon with the past.

The reformist government lacked the strength to dismantle that system.

The riot had discredited the city's newly elected reformist government.

The party was composed of southern Nigerian intellectuals who favor a reformist government.

The election of a pro-Western, reformist government in late 1998 further boosted close ties between the countries.

The Nigerians, through two, albeit flawed, democratic elections, have given themselves a reformist government with the right intentions.

A reformist Russian Government is reluctant to return them for fear of stirring nationalist reaction at home.

By last year it had a new, reformist Government, which pledged to quit Cambodia by 1990.

"It is saying that there's a reformist Government in power and that it's going to continue in power."