Last weekend, changing the culinary image, he called the constitutional-reform process un pasticcio, a mess.
Since then - to the surprise of many - his administration has embarked on a reform process.
Both intend to play a leading role as the party embarks on a slow, painful reform process.
"It'll certainly benefit China's reform process, " says Kevin Zhang, Beijing manager for the accounting firm Price Waterhouse.
If those elections are perceived to be free and fair, that will be another milestone in the reform process.
For Turkey that means reviving the flagging reform process that won it the opening of EU membership talks in 2005.
"The Nationalist Party needs to begin a reform process and at the same remain rooted in its values, " he said.
Madam President, as we can all attest, UN Women represents the culmination of a reform process that lasted several years.
And attempts at Barcelona to inject new momentum into the economic reform process seem bound for only limited success at best.
It is also true that he remains, as part of the comprehensive immigration reform process, committed to increasing our border security further.
The reform process is already under way among the urbanized upper classes.
Earlier Mr Obama met Thein Sein, saying the reform process "here in Myanmar... is one that can lead to incredible development opportunities".
What is also being impressed on Mrs Clinton is the fact that the reform process is fragile and could yet be derailed.
This reform process is in danger of taking policy two steps backwards.
Earlier, he said ethnic Albanian rebels must be convinced that the reform process they say they want can be achieved by democratic means.
"There are plenty of Democrats high up who would be totally happy with that, " said another Democratic source involved in the reform process.
His government has warned the violence could threaten the reform process.
One problem, the discussion paper acknowledges, is that it failed to see how the actual structure of the Argentine economy was combining with the reform process.
The U.S. and U.N. envoys should proactively back a root-and-branch Congolese reform process to address critical issues that undergird the conflict, from decentralization to army reform.
The health reform process drags on, with talk of a repeal and a Supreme Court decision on the horizon that may strike down the bill.
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In a bid to speed up the land reform process, the government has moved to loosen up restrictive terms that heavily favored the government in negotiations with farmers over land sales.
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That mirrors the reform process in Russia itself, where legislation has whizzed through parliament, but where anything involving real changes in the way bureaucrats work has been slow or even negligible.
That will be part of the overall reform process.
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"One of the messages that this forecast sends is that the government cannot afford to be complacent with its reform process, " Vishnu Varathan, senior economist with Mizuho Corporate Bank told the BBC.
The international observer missions say that the newly implemented election law is a big improvement on the past, but they say it should be seen only as the beginning of the reform process.
In Oaxaca, the state government hopes to pass legislation in the coming legislative term (ie, the next six months) to launch a five-year reform process leading to the formal installation of a new legal system.
At least one of these warlords is now in custody, but there will be no end to the war until the international community robustly backs a lasting peace and reform process that includes accountability for the worst war criminals.
Over 200 participants will discuss, during the next three days, the lessons learned throughout the implementation of the UN reform process in several parts of the world, its impact at country level, regional and UN system-wide level, and the future of this initiative.
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