In 1898 the oriental world was electrified by the so-called Reform Edicts, in which the Emperor undertook to modernize China, and in which he exhorted the nation to obey him.
The government is cognizant of the need to upgrade infrastructure, modernize the tax system and labor laws, and provide incentives to invest in the energy sector, but progress is slow.
The government is striving to open new export markets, encourage foreign investment, modernize the tax and healthcare systems, and stimulate the sluggish economy.
Following the Treaty of Kanagawa with the United States in 1854, Japan opened its ports and began to intensively modernize and industrialize.
As part of its economic reform agenda, launched in February 1991 with IMF and World Bank support, Burundi is trying to diversify its agricultural exports, attract foreign investment in industry, and modernize government budgetary practices.
GDP growth will continue to hinge on crop performance; dependence on foreign oil leaves the import bill vulnerable to fluctuating oil prices; and efforts to open and modernize the economy remain uneven.
The government continues to grapple with its large deficit and massive internal debt, with the need to modernize the state-owned electricity and telecommunications sector, and with the problem of bringing down inflation.
Over the next four years, the DUC put forward a number of key reforms to modernize the economy and to democratize the political system.
Our basic task is tomodernize your society, to bring it to an industrialized culture.
Point three, I came on this expedition to help modernize the Texcocans, not to die in battle.
Chapter I Notes 1 It is possible to modernize agriculture (a primary industry) as well, but this becomes possible only with the intervention of the secondary and tertiary industries.
For its own good, nay, its own life, Chinese civilization had to modernize (i.
It would be inexpedient to go into details about railway lines and other modern industrial enterprises by means of which Sun sought to modernize China.
We're here to speak for the American farmer, the entrepreneur, and every worker in industries fighting to modernize and compete.
The cruise missile production which will begin next year will modernize our strategic air deterrent.
I propose to take steps to modernize and streamline the executive branch, to modernize the relations between city and State and Nation.
I ask you to help our communities build or modernize 5,000 schools.
And again, to help build or modernize 6,000 schools, to get students out of trailers and into high-tech classrooms.
I recommend that you help me modernize and streamline the Federal Government by creating a new Cabinet level Department of Transportation and reorganizing several existing agencies.
Inside their homeland, the communists are trying to maintain and modernizehuge military forces.
With so large a number of the American people desiring to modernize and improve existing dwellings, I recommend that the Title 1 program for permanent improvements in the home be liberalized.
We must modernize our unemployment insurance and establish a high-level commission on automation.
So I also propose a school construction tax cut to help communities modernize or build 5,000 schools.
There is also a need to modernize and expand the dry bulk segment of our fleet.
I have not attempted to modernize their aspect or character in presenting them, in this somewhat altered connection, to the public.
The record is not a difficult one to read, and never has been, and the manifold attempts to modernize all traces of man on the eastern coast of North America can safely be relegated to the limbo of misdirected energy.
This is not at all improbable; but how does this modernize the object, when the gravel extends quite to the surface?
Lisbon also is working to modernize its capital plant and increase competitiveness in hope of moving up closer to the EU average.
Mexico still needs to overcome many structural problems as it strives to modernize its economy and raise living standards.
The government is working to modernize capital plant and increase the country's competitiveness in the increasingly integrated world markets.
In 1996, the Democratic Union Coalition (DUC) defeated the MPRP in a national election and has attempted to establish a number of reforms to modernize the economy.
Yemen has embarked on an IMF-supported structural adjustment program designed to modernize and streamline the economy, which has led to foreign debt relief and restructuring.
Low rates of growth reflect the inability of the Soviet-style economy to modernize capital plant and motivate workers.
The FOX administration is cognizant of the need to upgrade infrastructure, modernize the tax system and labor laws, and allow private investment in the energy sector, but has been unable to win the support of the opposition-led Congress.
Following the Treaty of Kanagawa with the US in 1854, Japan opened its ports and began to intensively modernize and industrialize.
Hoping to stimulate the sluggish economy, the government is striving to open new export markets, encourage foreign investment, and modernize the tax and healthcare systems.
To attack and to overcome growing crime and lawlessness, I think we must have a stepped-up program to help modernize and strengthen our local police forces.
There is no Government that gives greater encouragement to inventive genius than the administration of President Diaz, and it has been one of the highest aims of his official career to modernize Mexico.
Russia should have used the windfall to reinvent itself - revamp its dilapidated infrastructure and modernize its institutions.
It is socially conservative but seeks to modernize Russia's administration and economy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modernize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: improve; refresh; rejuvenate; renew; renovate; restore; streamline; update
