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Example sentences for "modernizing"

Lexicographically close words:
modernists; modernity; modernization; modernize; modernized; modernly; modernness; moderns; modes; modest
  1. To prepare for the European single market, the government is restructuring and modernizing the economy and in 1989 embarked on a major privatization program.

  2. Each Member of the Congress has a role to play in modernizing our defenses, thus supporting our chances for a meaningful arms agreement.

  3. Most of the major systems needed for modernizing our defenses are already underway, and we will be addressing one key system, the MX missile, in consultation with the Congress in a few months.

  4. I shall, therefore, shortly address the Congress more fully in regard to modernizing and improving the Executive branch of the Government.

  5. We have reconfirmed our commitment to the defense of Europe, and this year we will demonstrate that commitment by further modernizing and strengthening our military capabilities there.

  6. Considered as a whole, this series of messages will be a blueprint for modernizing the concept and the functions of American Government to meet the needs of our people.

  7. They honestly believed that the extension of Western political control was the best and quickest, perhaps the only, means of modernizing the backward portions of the world.

  8. It is true that the Trasteverines have preserved their individuality, cut off as they have been by the river from the modernizing influences which spread like a fever through the length and breadth of Rome.

  9. Bavaria at this time was modernizing her institutions.

  10. In the 19th century the modernizing tendency continued to grow, though always side by side with a strong conservative opposition, and the most prominent names on both sides are those of scholars rather than literary men.

  11. In the execution of my part, I thought it material not to vary the diction of the ancient statutes by modernizing it, nor to give rise to new questions by new expressions.

  12. In the years that he had to spend in exile, he constantly studied and preached the necessity of modernizing China.

  13. Fifthly and finally, Sun regarded democracy as an essential modernizing force.

  14. His theory of democracy was justified in part by the fact that democracy was to be regarded as a modernizing force.

  15. If this modernizing and, if a neologism be permitted, stateizing process were to succeed, it must needs be fostered by a well-prepared group of persons within the society.

  16. Sun Yat-sen was a Christian, although in his case Christianity has been less of a modernizing force compared with the influence of his actual experience abroad.

  17. The leader of Chinese Marxism, Ch'en Tu-hsiu, broke the party wide open with a schism; he believed in modernizing effort rather than orthodox Marxist symbols.

  18. Fourthly, because democracy was a modernizing force, it should be introduced; the people, participating in progress, would themselves become progressive.

  19. He notes the modernizing spirit even of that day.

  20. This may be called the first attempt at modernizing Montreal.

  21. He was the first public man to set about systematic modernizing and development of Montreal.

  22. The Federal Republic, however, continues to experience difficulties in integrating and modernizing eastern Germany, and the tremendous costs of unification have sunk western Germany deeper into recession.

  23. One could not afford to put much capital into prospecting or into modernizing the mining methods when each improvement simply meant either more rent or "squeeze," or the giving up of the mine.

  24. He succeeded not only in modernizing and rehabilitating the material part of the great establishment, but at the same time in rescuing and revivifying a suffering laboring population of helpless Russians.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modernizing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.