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Therefore, reform minded officers among the armed forces must be targeted and organized as negotiation partners.

Reform-minded officials may take this as a green light to carry on quietly privatising other state-run enterprises, albeit slowly.

As Republican mayor of Indianapolis, he won a reputation as a leader of a new breed of reform-minded American city bosses.

As Feng Zhendong, Wuqi's reform-minded Communist Party secretary, says, "There's only so much to spend on. "

Even if reform-minded princes do take over, tension will emerge between the al-Saud family and the conservative religious establishment.

Mr Ahmadinejad was handpicked by ultra-conservatives to sweep away the corruption of previous reform-minded governments.

Reform-minded Greeks see the crisis as an opportunity to set their country right.

Then in 2008, the reform-minded lawyer Dmitry Medvedev took office, raising hope among investors that the business climate would improve.

Mr Mousavi, a former prime minister, is the most reform-minded of three challengers competing against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

However, Mr Koizumi's legacy has not stopped reform-minded politicians in the regions.

Even Junichiro Koizumi, the most charismatic and reform-minded of all the LDP prime ministers, struggled to get things done.

Reform-minded Chinese officials will be forced to stand strong to appease hard-liners within the government and not come off as too weak.

Earlier hopes that a cohort of reform-minded apparatchiks might replace an older, more staid generation have now been disappointed.

Gorbachev had few reform-minded aides.

His best reporting is on Hungary, particularly on the decision by the reform-minded leadership there to open the border with Austria.

muckrakers were reform-minded journalists who made investigation and exposed the dark sides of the society.

But is this new generation as reform-minded as it sounds?