How To Use Modernize In A Sentence

  • The chapel or church claims greater antiquity than any other in that part of the kingdom; but there is no appearance of this in the external aspect of the present edifice, unless it be in the two eastern windows, which remain unmodernized, and in the lower part of the steeple. The Life of Charlotte Bronte
  • Although the strategy was flawed by its excessive voluntarism, it did force the party to modernize itself.
  • So will the investment in capital goods and engineering skills needed to modernise outmoded factories.
  • To many people, John XXIII was the Kennedy pope, and Vatican II was his Camelot a glorious, Roman Catholic version of the New Deal and the New Frontier that would move Catholicism from the medieval past into a rosy future of social equality, in which mass would be celebrated in the vernacular, nuns' habits would be modernized, and the popemobile would replace the traditional gestatorial chair as a form of papal transportation. Philocrites: May 2005 Archives
  • The air force and navy were modernised but the army, very much the poor relation, was not.
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  • Public modes of conveyance should be modernised.
  • It modernized and industrialized at a fantastic rate, and agricultural production doubled between 1945 and 1974.
  • Oil had stimulated new industry, cities were being modernized rapidly and ambitious plans promised change in the countryside.
  • If the industry doesn't modernize it will not survive.
  • The house is unmodernised but totally unspoilt. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘What a very boring man, obsessed with the first world war,’ he says, all self-mockery, behind his cluttered desk in Private Eye's defiantly unmodernised Soho townhouse.
  • Some attempts to modernise the game have met stiff resistance. Times, Sunday Times
  • The producers then use their skills to modernise or update the products.
  • Though cross-island expressways had been envisioned by the Regional Plan Association in the 1920s, it was in the postwar years that the megalomaniacal urban planner Robert Moses made Lomex — a proposed 200-foot-wide swath along Broome Street requiring the demolition of buildings housing at least 1,972 families and 804 businesses — the centerpiece of his vision to modernize New York. Indignation Superhighway
  • They soon discover that the cheaper end of the market means £375,000 for an unmodernised three-bedroom cottage in the middle of nowhere.
  • They resisted our attempts to modernize the distribution of books.
  • There are, however, many cultural barriers to be surmounted on the path toward a unified and modernized Sierra Leone.
  • You know, an orbiter that's 20 years old that has just been through this 18 months program to refurbish, repair, refix, upgrade and modernize is not the same vehicle that went in and is clearly not something that's 20 years old. CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2003
  • Take the road of substantial development and take the lead in modernized education.
  • He recommended "flexicurity" -- which mixes lifelong learning and job training, flexible labour market policies and high levels of social protection -- as the way to modernise Europe's labour policies. EU News
  • A long-time supporter of devolution while an economic moderniser, he provides unsentimental analysis of heavy industry's demise.
  • Trust becomes increasingly anchored in reciprocal self-interest rather than culture as countries modernise. Times, Sunday Times
  • But Network Rail, formerly Railtrack, is concerned that more houses will mean more people using the local unmanned and unmodernised level crossing to reach the town centre and other facilities.
  • You've got to modernize the system in order to be a part of the system.
  • Today, Noreum-Machi will stage a captivating virtuosic percussion performance known as Samulnori, a modernized stage adaption of p'ungmul nori, which is a ritualistic celebration which originated from shamanism and animism and which is performed by rice farmers. Latest News
  • We should modernise and recognise the need to help those who are in debt, but we should not produce a debtors' charter.
  • The implementation of more intensive and modernised farming encountered the problem of land shortage. Refugees in the Age of Total War
  • These measures had a profound impact on some sectors which modernized their production methods to meet the war's limitless demand for arms and munitions.
  • The idea that progress comes through conflict has been lost to the idea that progress comes through allowing modernisers to do exactly what they want.
  • It is estimated that 20,000 jobs will be lost as part of the efforts to modernise the forces.
  • President Dmitry Medvedev, who is himself an avid user of Twitter, is also a proud user of an iPad and has hailed the Internet as a modernizer of Russia's economy and culture. Web Problems Plague Russia Critics
  • The BLACK HAWK helicopter is equipped with advanced avionics and electronics systems and is part of the Army’s long-term effort to modernize its medium-lift helicopter fleet.
  • In spite of their professed desire to modernize, many Qing officials believed that the basic principles of Chinese statecraft were based on Confucian prescriptions.
  • In practical terms, we have reaffirmed our commitment to build the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers; the future fast-jet fleet will comprise the more capable Joint Strike Fighter and Typhoon; we will develop multirole brigades to be able to conduct the full range of tasks with our ground forces; and we will be capable of deploying a modernized all-arms force into the field up to 30,000 strong. The British Lion Will Continue to Retain His Claws
  • But political opponents sought to dismiss the latest moves to modernise.
  • Of course we have modernised the notation, for example subscript notation was not used in Parseval's time, and we have also corrected his theorem for he omitted the first 2 on the left hand side.
  • From Shanghai to Soochow city, a typical Chinese walled town, still quite unmodernized, and no doubt the same as it was 2000 years ago. Ranching, Sport and Travel
  • On the other hand, it would actually have been much, much better had we left our financial system unmodernized than allowed it to be Grammitized in the name of modernization. anonymous Says: Matthew Yglesias » Brink Lindsey Accuses Progressives of Peddling “Nostalgianomics”
  • Romania badly needs aid to modernise its outmoded industries.
  • Since virtually all the wines are sold with ease on the undemanding local market, there has been little or no incentive to modernize or re-equip the wineries.
  • Trust becomes increasingly anchored in reciprocal self-interest rather than culture as countries modernise. Times, Sunday Times
  • They began a crash program to modernize and strengthen their fleet and to build nuclear weapons with ICBMs to carry them.
  • Most of these tasks were in the pipeline anyway as part of Beijing's plan to modernise its outdated infrastructure and clean up its notoriously foul air.
  • We wish to modernize, and with a man of your stature, this could be easily accomplished. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
  • Despite our unremitting efforts to modernize our country, there are always people who, dissatisfied with their current living conditions, are willing to be exploited by extortionists who live on human trafficking.
  • Massive investment is needed to modernise the country's telephone network.
  • In the village pub - unmodernised by any rapacious brewery, although in this decade new roadhouses spread like scabs along arterial roads - Donald hears unassuming rustics quote Shakespeare.
  • Eventually Peter recognized that in order to consolidate and modernize Russia's political and economic power it was necessary to do away with the hetmanate and Ukrainian and Cossack aspirations to autonomy. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Hooray, say some, here comes big capital to modernise the road and provide jobs and homes for the needy.
  • Rice, followed-up by Stephanie Meyer, “… modernized and domesticated the vampire, ripping away the traditional narrative from the black-caped, thickly Euro-accented, terror guy you run from, to the handsome, seductive bad-boy next door you want to sleep with,” says Thompson. VAMPIRES- WHY HERE, WHY NOW? | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
  • Although the changes employed by Friedman and Koepp to modernize the story are adequate in displacing many of the book's events to a contemporary time frame, they result in a tale that is rife with logical errors.
  • They should also be able to give a view on how other swimming and sports facilities can be modernised.
  • The play, of course, was an adaptation of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, cunningly modernized into an anti-capitalist satire.
  • Either way it is unworthy of a libertarian modernizer like AK. Faith in Leaders, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Ships were built both to modernize the navy and to catch the overflow of trade.
  • In due course the main gallery will be refurbished and modernised to provide an important contribution to the cultural amenities of Bristol.
  • His unstuffy manner has also gained him increasing respect in a German business world desperate to modernise beyond its engineering and banking base.
  • Starting in 1969, Formell radically modernized Cuban charanga with electric instruments and funky grooves, and over the decades the band has managed to adapt to changing tastes. Chicago Reader
  • The overall result is an upper chamber modernised with Twitter and iPads but which feels increasingly anachronistic and feudal. Times, Sunday Times
  • Apart from the beltline which is a bit high for my taste (though that is something all cars seem to suffer from lately), they managed to modernize the design pretty well. Autoblog Green
  • The houses should be repaired and modernised; proper plumbing should be installed, and more adequate heating.
  • Fine Gael too look as if they may be about to modernise themselves thought there are some music ignoramuses who will have to be dragged kicking and squealing into the new era.
  • The government has announced an ambitious programme to modernize the railway network.
  • They've modernized kreplach and smoked fish, giving buzz to Bubbe's best. New Menus Inspired by Jewish Canon
  • The government has announced an ambitious programme to modernise the railway network.
  • To modernise requires an assessment of the new risks that surround us. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gus's combustible info is relayed in their unmodernized Sunnyside, Brooklyn home, an instantly convincing set -- as are subsequent other shifting locations -- by Mark Wendland. David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... Continues Genius Display
  • Soft and natural made from the most futuristic materials possible, this year's trend gives way to the super modern as well as the modernized return of the sixties classics.
  • She said we want to modernise an old bungalow, and put in underfloor heating, solar panels and a new boiler. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Queen Mother and King George also modernised Birkhall's great house and built a new wing.
  • Massive investment is needed to modernise the country's telephone network.
  • In the northern jurisdiction, grasslands have been collectivized and animal husbandry has been modernized. The Prize in Economic Sciences 2009 - Illustrated Presentation
  • Writers had a choice: modernise the conventions or satirise them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Arms and military equipment in service have at best been overhauled or modernized on a limited scale.
  • Macleod's intervention was supported by constitutional experts yesterday as a vital step to modernise the Royal Family while Scottish Conservatives sounded a note of caution.
  • The idea was to modernize various aspects of the house without changing its essential character.
  • The term originated in a French culinary tradition that dates back to the nineteenth century when Escoffier, the great chef and writer, modernized the restaurant kitchen with what came to be known as the brigade system. The City Cook
  • She is full of rustic charm but modernised to include creature comforts such as a sink, fridge and gas hob. The Sun
  • The play is set at a time when an indulgent old order was elbowed aside by brash, pragmatic modernisers, a process so widely witnessed in the past century that it has always seemed relevant.
  • So I think we in Congress can help these less wealthy areas of the country update and modernize their technology.
  • The idea was to modernize various aspects of the house without changing its essential character.
  • Modernised, urbanised and alienated as many of us are, photographs remind us of nature's many complexities and subtleties.
  • There is also renewed interest in unmodernised 'doer-uppers'. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the other hand, modernisers claim that the game will fossilise if something is not done to stir interest.
  • Construction took place between 1804 and 1808 although it was modernised in the 1860's when the outer caponiers were added.
  • It cannot afford to ignore opportunities to cut costs and modernise for the sake of old-fashioned ticket offices or a union boss who leads by confrontation. Times, Sunday Times
  • DAYTON - The city has hired a management consulting firm to do a search for an aviation director to succeed Iftikhar Ahmad, who oversaw new construction to modernize Dayton Daytondailynews.com - News
  • We wish to modernize, and with a man of your stature, this could be easily accomplished. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
  • Many kinds of economic sector compatible, agriculture, industry and commerce developed together economically, and the modernized quality of traditional economic structure was built.
  • It also announced the intention to modernise the management of common land by updating existing legislation.
  • The implementation of more intensive and modernised farming encountered the problem of land shortage. Refugees in the Age of Total War
  • It was suspected that he wished to abolish slavery, to found schools, to build roads and to modernize the country.
  • Cameron, a self-described conservative "modernizer" who has embraced gay rights and "green" policies, agreed to give the post of deputy prime minister to the Liberal Democrats 'leader, Nicholas Clegg, a champion of the poor. David Cameron is Britain's new prime minister
  • Women's attitudes towards feminism, the clothing they wore, and other beliefs and behaviors were subjected to scrutiny by Spanish modernizers who saw women as key to Europeanizing and westernizing Spain.
  • Romania badly needs aid to modernise its outmoded industries.
  • The post has gotten almost 300 comments so far, with some of the LiveJournalists wondering whether the use of such an outdated appliance is trying to tell us something about Medvedev's plan to modernize the economy. Simon Shuster: SLIDESHOW - Putin and Medvedev's confusing breakfast: What the hell are they trying to say?
  • Our goal is to modernize our existing products and deliver new cloud-based solutions to manufacturers and consumers.
  • It always portrays the Church as powerful, ominous, mysterious, bound to tradition, wealthy, adorned with beauty and majesty, steeped in history, dogmatic and unmodernized, with an iron-fisted attachment to a world gone by, The Music in Angels and Demons
  • The modernisers are in total disarray. Times, Sunday Times
  • Knowing that a poor performance would reignite the whispering campaign against him, he spoke in a leaden manner before delivering a blunt ‘modernise or die’ message.
  • Modernized base housing gives would-be renters an attractive home option.
  • The cabinets used to have little white porcelain knobs and pulls on them, but we replaced them with brushed nickel to modernize the kitchen. Housekeeping
  • Campbell a "modernizer" in religion during Chesterton's time--ed., in their almost too fastidious spirituality, admit divine sinlessness, which they cannot see even in their dreams. Archive 2006-11-01
  • In his budget statement, delivered to the House of Commons on 24 March, Darling said that the UK must renew and modernise its energy supplies if it hoped to improve its infrastructure.
  • New roads and tunnels have been built and public transport modernised.
  • Instead, modernise and streamline the planning system and build more homes. Times, Sunday Times
  • And they're not radically modernised or remodelled cardies, either. Times, Sunday Times
  • The company invested heavily in advertising to modernise its staid image.
  • Its ham-fisted attempts to modernise the service plunged the post office network into crisis.
  • When this newspaper first denounced Mr Berlusconi, many Italian businesspeople replied that only his roguish, entrepreneurial chutzpah offered any chance to modernise the economy.
  • Whether Ed meant to modernize the old house or refurbish it is unclear, but he dug a large pit under it and put up drywall in places drywall had little business being.
  • Company (IHC), feels the first shutdown in its more than hundred years of existence has helped the company modernise and contemporise the historic Palace wing of the hotel. The Economic Times
  • It has been painstakingly refurnished and modernised to an extremely high standard, all done in the best possible taste.
  • The refurbishment has increased the size of the library, modernised its facilities and improved access.
  • The problem facing China or any nation that modernizes and industrializes in the twentieth century can be simply stated. A History of China
  • At the beginning of the 20th century, every single leading Muslim intellectual, except one, was in love with the Democratic West, and saw these modern countries as approaching the Islamic ideal better than their own unmodernized countries. CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2004
  • More troubling is the decision to regularize Elizabeth's writings through modernized spelling and format.
  • It also acted as a stimulus for Britain to modernise her outdated Royal Air Force.
  • The bill updates and modernises the language of a range of oaths set out in statute, as well as one declaration, and the words of affirmation that may be used instead of an oath.
  • Cameron was not well liked by large sectors of the Conservative party that he leads even before the election: he is a "modernizer" and Conservatives are conservative. London Free Press
  • It is " our hope, " the official also said, that talks that could see defense electronics company Thales SA modernize an Indian fleet of Mirage fighter jets will " unblock " during Mr. Sarkozy ' s visit. France to Seek Indian Support for G-20 Goals
  • Each of the unitary awarding bodies addressed the need to modernise the system for marking exam scripts by developing an electronic marking process
  • As industry was modernized by automation and computerization, workers' skills became outdated or unwanted.
  • More? the basic story has some more labels for us - including that "modernizer" thing again, only this time accompanied by a vague adjective: GetReligion
  • Studies on Value Identity of China's Struggle to Modernize.
  • The death-dealing moderniser at home with his stolen scrolls and paintings - what scene could better epitomise the fraud of the Communist Party's claim to moral legitimacy?
  • Hassell helped create a commission that worked to modernize the state's mental health-care system, which took on added significance after the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech, and was known as a tireless advocate for judges' pay, benefits and working conditions. Mourners gather in memory of Hassell, first black to lead Virginia Supreme Court
  • The idea was to modernize various aspects of the house without changing its essential character.
  • Just as historical dandyism took its fashion and performance cues from women, so too did the Hollywood version respond to a new screen woman, who helped create a context for the modernized dandy.
  • The company has the loading and unloading troop which the modernized large-scale warehouse and fine prepares, the company innate goods traffic vehicles 80 remainders, the staff 700 people.
  • A country as big as that, beginning to modernize, a huge population. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • The modernisers are in total disarray. Times, Sunday Times
  • Chapter 4, From to tradition culture of the basic valuation commence, trace back to the traditional culture the process that replace, and discuss basic trend that modernize of culture.
  • His unstuffy manner has also gained him increasing respect in a German business world desperate to modernise beyond its engineering and banking base.
  • I've just been waiting for an excuse to redecorate and modernize it a bit. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • Over the years and in recent times, many rabbis have been criticized for helping women to obtain a "Get," Jewish divorce papers which archaically, although steps have been implemented to modernize and circumvent this predicament are granted by the husbands. Shira Hirschman Weiss: Non-Confrontational Clergy: When Inactions Speak Louder Than Words
  • Instead, modernise and streamline the planning system and build more homes. Times, Sunday Times
  • He said the existing store and future developments would attempt to modernise the department store concept.
  • Some members have demanded that one of the oldest literary societies needs to modernise. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is a thinker, a moderniser, a technophile. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unfortunately we lack the resources to modernize.
  • Yes, early leaders of independent India saw themselves as morally, civilisationally, and intellectually superior to whites Many were also bitterly critical and ashamed of the caste system and Indian feudalism, and sought to modernise traditional social structures. The Economic Times
  • The implementation of more intensive and modernised farming encountered the problem of land shortage. Refugees in the Age of Total War
  • Would-be buyers will have to be prepared to modernise certain rooms and update the decor.
  • Are they wishfully trying to modernize the religion into something it isn't?
  • He specialises in finding sites for self-builders and unmodernised buildings for wannabe renovators. Times, Sunday Times
  • After 1570 another leading architect, John Smythson, modernized the house and added classically inspired fronts to the entrance and to the grand entrance to the hall.
  • Thus, the first order of the new Pax Americana is to bring those we deem as heathens to democracy, to modernize the poor devils, and while we're at it teach them the beauties of a more materialistic culture.
  • There are plans to modernize the US strategic forces.
  • Chapter 4, From to tradition culture of the basic valuation commence, trace back to the traditional culture the process that replace, and discuss basic trend that modernize of culture.
  • Some attempts to modernise the game have met stiff resistance. Times, Sunday Times
  • They lengthened the course by adding some tees and added subtle mounding to the fairways to modernize the course so it wouldn't appear so flat.
  • Would-be buyers will have to be prepared to modernise certain rooms and update the decor.
  • Venezuela spent $4.4 1000000000 in weapons purchases from 2003 to 2006 to modernize its brachiate forces, according to a inform by the U.S. Xml's Blinklist.com
  • Chapter 4, From to tradition culture of the basic valuation commence, trace back to the traditional culture the process that replace, and discuss basic trend that modernize of culture.
  • It can also be fun to modernize an old clunker, particularly if you're the type who likes to tinker.
  • The play was an adaptation of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, cunningly modernized into an anti-capitalist satire.
  • It is an old problem, usually found in unmodernised farming countries.
  • We wish to modernize, and with a man of your stature, this could be easily accomplished. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
  • Industries unable to modernise have been left to wither.
  • The legislation has a simple purpose: to consolidate and modernise the legislation relating to the property of the Anglican Church in the diocese of Christchurch.
  • Accommodation for boarding and teaching was modernised. Times, Sunday Times
  • On November 26, Noreum-Machi will stage a captivating virtuosic percussion performance known as Samulnori, a modernized stage adaptation of p'ungmul nori, which is a ritualistic celebration which originated from shamanism and animism and which is performed by rice farmers and professional musicians at harvest festivals. Latest News
  • Then there's a modernised version of merengon de guanabana, a traditional dessert made with meringue, cheesecake and creamy soursop. Times, Sunday Times
  • I resent the people who did this simply out of reverence for their ‘god’ (nature) and in pursuance of the ideal that the worship of this ‘god’ mandates: the total abdication or removal of modernized man from the face of the earth, for the sake of “letting nature do its thing.” Wolves Kill 23 Lambs In Oregon
  • Alexander II realized that to modernize mean that Russia needed to westernize, so in 1861 he emancipated the serfs from bondage.
  • Golf being a traditional game, it took longer than many sports to modernise. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ideally he will recognize that any shift he creates is only temporary and will use the time gained to modernize his skillsby learning to exploit Auto-Tune or even retrack hip-hop by importing good ideas from elsewhere, but in general when powers seek to reverse progress they do so entirely for their own immediate comfort and subsequently take no further steps forward. The Only Blogger To Rewrite History Without A Pen | ATTACKERMAN
  • Despite this there are modernisers who demand that the party should embrace more radical reform.
  • In addition to copious notes he modernised punctuation and spelling to make a more readable text.
  • No doubt Coppola and his screenwriter, John Milius, were fully aware of the plot of Die Walküre, the ingenious portrayal of the helicopter gunships as modernized, mechanized Valkyries — the music both romanticizes combat and wryly points out the absurdity of ancient notions of chivalry in a war where the killing is almost industrialized. In the corners of my mind
  • The move caused widespread discontent in the Conservative Party and open dissent from leading modernisers.
  • The plan is to modernize the buildings and revamp the curriculum.
  • We think we have modernised quite well in this town and in the county.
  • We cannot expect to progress if the governing body is not prepared to modernise. Times, Sunday Times
  • First, to revitalize the mission of the museum through its exhibitions, public programs and publications; then to modernize the building so that our collections will be safe, with proper climate controls and storage; and the third, what I call collections initiative, meaning making its holdings accessible. NYT > Home Page
  • My parents lived all their lives in an unmodernised rented flat. Times, Sunday Times
  • But there is peril ahead if we don't modernize the system, invest in energy the way we need to, because there will be other evidences of problems coming up.
  • Unmodernised property can sell for up to 40 per cent of its modernised market value.
  • There has been a lot of ballyhoo about all these developments, but it is worth noting that these deals will be worthless unless new legislation is passed to modernise the law on casinos.
  • The legal system has not yet found ways to modernise procedures and cut costs without diminishing the quality of the service for consumers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The modernisers believe that a leaf must be taken from the experience of New Zealand and Australia, where non-military members are welcome.
  • It is not just owner-occupiers who are chasing unmodernised homes. Times, Sunday Times
  • A group of ultra modernisers, including ministers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Egypt today is in need of a savior in the mold of Muhammad Ali Pasha, its first great modernizer. Egypt's Silhouette of Fire
  • A group of ultra modernisers, including ministers. Times, Sunday Times
  • They need more funds to modernize the country's telephone system.
  • The infantry is / are still an important component of the modernized armies.
  • But there is another reason this story amuses, which is that we all know that confessing your sins over an iPhone will trivialise the whole thing, just like every other attempt to modernise ancient rituals - online funerals, online weddings and so on. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • The retailer is embarked on a drive to modernise its systems and logistics. Times, Sunday Times
  • This was hailed by pro-European modernisers, myself included, as a great act in pursuit of civil liberties. Privacy decisions can't just be left to judges and politicians
  • With the help of his buddies from work (all master tradesmen in their own right) he slowly modernised it and extended it.
  • Due to the wonderful generosity of the parishioners, the Church has been modernised using beautiful and innovative designs.
  • The rump was that part of the factory not modernised by new investment.
  • If the industry doesn't modernize it will not survive.
  • He has more to do to modernise and decentralise Britain's very centralised system of government and to revitalise our local democracy.
  • The lodge cottage and the bungalow have been modernised in recent years and could be used for holiday lets.
  • Peter attempted to modernize and westernize the country militarily, administratively, economically, and culturally, often through the use of force.
  • There's also a nicely modernised 30ft kitchen-diner and a patio garden. Times, Sunday Times
  • The business will lose money if it doesn't modernize.
  • Behind the door was a modernized kitchen, all shiny and silvery.
  • The company has the loading and unloading troop which the modernized large-scale warehouse and fine prepares, the company innate goods traffic vehicles 80 remainders, the staff 600 people.
  • To many people, John XXIII was the Kennedy pope, and Vatican II was his Camelot a glorious, Roman Catholic version of the New Deal and the New Frontier that would move Catholicism from the medieval past into a rosy future of social equality, in which mass would be celebrated in the vernacular, nuns’ habits would be modernized, and the popemobile would replace the traditional gestatorial chair as a form of papal transportation. Philocrites: Do liberals remember a mythical Vatican II?
  • Will they choose to further modernize this industrialized country by reforming laws and social norms unfair to women?
  • Party modernisers view her as too radical and fear that some of her views could be harming their electoral prospects.
  • Public-private infrastructure projects may help: A $1.5 billion toll-road concession from San Juan west to Hatilo and Aguadilla; public-private partnerships in education bringing $878 million to the island for the modernization of 100 schools; and bidding is now under way for a concession to modernize the Luis Muñoz Marín Airport in San Juan. Fortuño's Plan to Energize Puerto Rico
  • So we took advantage of that to restore the hotel and contemporise and modernise it to the tastes of the modern traveller. The Economic Times
  • If they want to increase output from the factory, they'll have to modernize.
  • Potyomkin villages" really enabled the local labour markets to re-organise, modernise, and develop a sensible policy for additional employee training? OpenDemocracy
  • It includes a superlative analysis of the fundamental ways in which traditional Islamic thought differs from both Judaeo-Christian and Enlightenment concepts and shows the full extent of the challenge that Moslem modernizers face. Reading for Washington’s Birthday
  • It's beautiful, but the house is unmodernised to the point of being uninhabitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nurses will be the linchpin to the Government's grandiose plans to modernise and improve the National Health Service, one of their leaders says.
  • China Airlines, majority owned by a government-run foundation, has been mulling purchasing planes from Airbus as it modernizes its fleet of aging aircraft.
  • On the other is an obvious need to modernise transport and other infrastructure. Times, Sunday Times
  • Both air-conditioning and good cable trunking systems are required to modernise the building and make it attractive for a successful letting.
  • After the rift was mended, as a mark of reconciliation it was decided to revive and modernize the festival.
  • The two sides will now seek an accommodation which will modernise the fire service and which the FBU can sell to its members as not being entirely based on the Bain report.
  • She is full of rustic charm but modernised to include creature comforts such as a sink, fridge and gas hob. The Sun
  • In view of the foregoing, it is clear that the new government will have to place fresh orders for weaponry so that the programme to modernise the armed forces does not become moribund.
  • With fantasy the insularity is even worse: the fantasy reader who has not read the original ancient epic poems of which modern fantasy is merely a variation or imitation runs the risk of being unduly impressed with a watered-down and modernized version of a rich and ancient literary tradition. MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers
  • The government has announced an ambitious programme to modernise the railway network.
  • It also announced the intention to modernise the management of common land by updating existing legislation.
  • The retailer is embarked on a drive to modernise its systems and logistics. Times, Sunday Times
  • He introduced many new reforms which attempted to modernize and liberalize the system rather than destroy it.
  • But too much centralisation cramps the very leadership qualities that are desperately required to modernise the NHS.
  • Nothing here had been modernized, and the full-length mirror on the back of the door was wavery and speckled. DOWNTOWN
  • The revival helped to create an image of a pastoral, mythic, unmodernized Ireland that influenced subsequent writers and artists.
  • We need to modernise the Post Office - to give it new business so local offices stay open.
  • To move from unmodernised to modernised is proving to be an expensive business. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was always a moderniser, a reformist - and if he was alive today, he would have had me to listen to.
  • Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wants to win back his reputation as an economic modernizer. Can India's Congress Sell Reform?
  • We have significantly modernised our skills and our equipment to meet the demands of today's society and of a more expectant public.
  • The company is a professional company dedicate to managing modernized office furniture.
  • The importance of continuing the family line is eroding as China modernizes," says Hung Huang, a Beijing publisher who adopted a girl last year.
  • The move threatens to create a schism in the Church, pitting modernisers against traditionalists.
  • We borrowed one sum to modernise our premises, which we are paying back long-term.
  • Do we need to modernise the handbrake? Times, Sunday Times
  • The union says that if we modernise there will be fewer jobs. The Sun
  • Going down this road is the way forward - it will generate investment to refurbish, re-equip and modernise, and safeguard the future of our leisure services.
  • She is full of rustic charm but modernised to include creature comforts such as a sink, fridge and gas hob. The Sun
  • Trans - Siberian Railroad is a modernized passageway joining Europe - Russia and Far East.
  • A country as big as that, beginning to modernize, a huge population. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • The government has announced an ambitious programme to modernize the railway network.
  • And Cohen is adamant about the need to modernize tactical aviation, the analyst said.
  • She is full of rustic charm but modernised to include creature comforts such as a sink, fridge and gas hob. The Sun
  • All the religions which come out of a pre-scientific world need to be reinterpreted and modernised.
  • Ensured implementation of the landmark Ticket to Work program, which modernized the employment services system for people with disabilities.
  • Healthcare is an unmodernized industry that reinforces the point.
  • Trust becomes increasingly anchored in reciprocal self-interest rather than culture as countries modernise. Times, Sunday Times
  • Malians are using MCC funds to improve irrigation systems in the Niger River Delta and modernize the Bamako Airport, which will boost agricultural productivity and expand access to markets and trade.
  • Dean has been a modernizer and innovator, and should be embraced for it.
  • Some day I hope to revisit the region and find this natural nesting hollow still occupied by a pair of unmodernized Swifts. The Bird Study Book
  • Its arrival has not yielded a new Constitution, rationalised the party system, modernised justice or overhauled the bureaucracy in any of the ways its advocates hoped it would.
  • Searches for unmodernised properties have waned by 41 per cent. The Sun
  • Massive investment is needed to modernise the country's telephone network.
  • Trust becomes increasingly anchored in reciprocal self-interest rather than culture as countries modernise. Times, Sunday Times
  • The idea was to modernize various aspects of the house without changing its essential character.
  • A country as big as that, beginning to modernize, a huge population. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • The guys above are right it is junk. a few years ago my dad bought the chines sks and it to is junk. that being said i can't vouch for the accuracy but i have seen guys buy after market stocks and such to kind modernize them for deer hunting. Just got flier from an outdoor store and there is an ad for a "1945 russian sks semi auto rifle" the caliber is 7.62x39mm.
  • RIO DE JANEIRO - Latin American navies are moving to modernize the electronics and communications of their fleets of German-designed 209 submarines, an executive of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) said. News From DefenseNews.com
  • The company is caught in a double bind. If it doesn't modernize it won't make money, but if it does modernize they'll have to make people redundant because they won't need them any more.
  • It was clear to him that pure, unmodernized Jujutsu (precisely because it had long had as its main purpose the sole issue of victory or defeat) did not comport with the modernizing spirit of the period after the Meiji Restoration.
  • Located in the middle of Bagenalstown the house has been completely refurnished and modernised.
  • Its arrival has not yielded a new Constitution, rationalised the party system, modernised justice or overhauled the bureaucracy in any of the ways its advocates hoped it would.
  • And I think this is an indication of the fact that we need to modernize the electricity grid.
  • This treaty gave China money and technical assistance to modernise her industry.
  • This is what the smaller businesses need to do, modernise. The Sun
  • Network Class is constructed by humanist platform, network organization, specialized guidance and modernized services.
  • It has bee modernised with a powerful automatic fog-horn known locally as Moaning Minnie.
  • We consider that the appropriate property type should be unmodernised family sized accommodation with 3 bedrooms or more.
  • What counts, for him, is the accumulation of power and posing as a ‘moderniser’ by sweeping away fusty medieval titles.
  • Russia's former naval facility of Baltiysk next to Kaliningrad is being converted and modernized to handle an initial 1m tons of cargo a year.
  • The house has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, one en-suite, a drawing room, a dining room, a morning room, a studio, kitchen/a breakfast room, a three attic rooms, a conservatory, a scullery, a cellar and a two-bedroom unmodernised annexe.
  • Massive investment is needed to modernise the country's telephone network.
  • The company is caught in a double bind.If it doesn't modernise it won't make money, but if it does modernise they'll have to make people redundant because they won't need them any more.
  • Official collaboration between Nunavut and Montreal fur designers began four years ago, when Montreal-based fur veteran Ingo Moslener was hired as a consultant to help Nunavut furriers modernize their production techniques.
  • The ticket hall will be modernised, with a low-level counter for wheelchair users, and there will also be environmental improvements, new passenger information systems, and better signs to local facilities.
  • I've just been waiting for an excuse to redecorate and modernize it a bit. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • Finding the unmodernised property to buy is often the hard part, of course. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the industry doesn't modernize it will not survive.
  • A few weeks ago, President Obama announced more than $3 billion in stimulus grants to improve and "smarten" the national grid pushing the concept of a modernized electricity network into the limelight. Undefined
  • This modernised welfare state has been profoundly shaped by the realisation that large, top-down bureaucracies are rarely the best method of delivering services.
  • The buildings will be modernised and refurbished for the 420 infants and juniors with large open teaching spaces with IT facilities.
  • It is time to modernize our society to match the rest of the free world.
  • This is a thinker, a moderniser, a technophile. Times, Sunday Times
  • These countries need to carry out far-reaching reforms to modernize their economies.
  • They need more funds to modernize the country's telephone system.
  • With respect to the naming of army general Salvador Pardo Cruz - the former head of the Military Industry Union - as Minister of the Steel Industry, he said it was a good decision, pointing out that the military managed to upgrade and modernise their equipment based on local initiative, resources and organisation, with a strategy that could be transferred to the steel industry, which he said is currently 'undercapitalised' due to a lack of coherence in the ministry's policies. Global Issues News Headlines
  • I've just been waiting for an excuse to redecorate and modernize it a bit. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • We'll talk about U.S. military efforts to innovate, to modernize, and to stay ahead of any potential enemy.
  • modernized methods
  • As will be argued, Rushdie's novel can be approached as an instance of a modernized fairy tale utopia, as well as a move from the sheer critique of the present state of things to the anticipatory vision of a more hospitable world.
  • The preliminary agreement to buy 180 planes will include 150 of the modernized A320 aircraft, according to a statement late yesterday.
  • We need to modernise the Post Office - to give it new business so local offices stay open.
  • ‘A significant number of the deaths will be because, in this area, houses are likely to be the older, unmodernised terraced type which are not well insulated or fuel efficient,’ he said.
  • It was their manifest failure to modernize the country's industries.
  • Seeing itself as an intellectualized and enlightened version of an ancient religion, the Reform movement of Judaism began in Germany and sought to modernize the faith and bring it into harmony with a secular lifestyle. American Grace
  • We must modernise the judiciary and increase police numbers to take down such monsters,' she said. Times, Sunday Times
  • India wants to acquire the fighter jets to modernize its ageing fleet of MiG-21s--dating back to the 1960s--as Pakistan and China induct new planes. India May Sign Fighter Jet Deal by March
  • This will upgrade and modernize the regional seismic networks that locate earthquakes and determine magnitudes, replacing aging sensors with modern instrumentation.
  • Many Poles I meet mention a latent national anxiety about the under-funding of education, and you can see why: whereas plenty of British schools have long been modernised and equipped with mountains of IT, Limanowa's remind me of the shabby-looking place I went to during the depths of the Thatcher years. For a generation of young Poles, travelling abroad is still often the only option
  • The actual percussion lock has been modernized to include a coil mainspring and parts proven reliable and trouble-free.
  • If they had been left intact we would have had a city centre to be proud of with many modernised buildings.
  • He hit the bottle and his departure from a scene he'd done so much to entertain, outrage and modernise was messy, undignified and sad.
  • Audiology services in Bury are to be modernised under a change of leadership.
  • The best one, though, is defiantly unmodernised. Times, Sunday Times
  • RIYADH: On the sideline of the Global Competitiveness Forum taking place in Riyadh, Al-Olayan Financing Company which manages the Middle East operation of Arabia, a core partner nation in laying the foundation for a strong and modernized global economy, is on the verge of meeting a goal ... diseases. WN.com - Articles related to Delegation hopes to boost Pakistan rice exports
  • Although some Chinese cities may now boast some of the most modernized skylines in the world, down at street level one can usually still find the traditional herbal teashop.
  • The knee - jerk assumption of he argues, is that as countries modernise they take on western characteristics.
  • The legal system has not yet found ways to modernise procedures and cut costs without diminishing the quality of the service for consumers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sheikh Rifa'a Rafi’ al-Tahtawi was a professor at the still unmodernized al-Azhar University of the early nineteenth century.
  • Energy Secretary Steven Chu claims it will cost more than $100 billion to modernize and "smarten" the grid. Daphne Wysham: Moving Our Nation Beyond Petroleum
  • Patients on wards for the elderly will be the first to gain from the changes which will eventually see all Nightingale wards modernised and an end to mixed sex accommodation.
  • The NPR further hurts our ability to modernize our deteriorating nuclear arsenal by essentially cashiering the "replacement" approach, which allows for the use of nuclear components based on previously tested designs. Why the Senate Should Block 'New Start'
  • China Airlines, majority owned by a government-run foundation, has been mulling purchasing planes from Airbus as it modernizes its fleet of aging aircraft.
  • It has not happened yet, because of the unmodernized structure of EU patenting, and narrow-minded EU legislation having left out any funding, grant, or incentive for intermediaries or service companies.
  • The conventional wisdom is that, in order to increase food supply to feed the hungry of the world, we need to redouble efforts to modernize agriculture.
  • I would like to point out that all the old wood pews were removed when the church was modernised and redeveloped last year.

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