Sentence examples for a modernising from inspiring English sources

Now, by contrast, it is a "modernising force".The western Balkans matter little economically.

When Ghani announced his first run in 2009, it was as a modernising moderate whom many westerners saw as a perfect candidate.

But party officials brush off worries that history could repeat itself: in 1993, a handful of dissidents brought down a modernising ND government in a row over privatisation.In this section A rupture with the past?

Albert's marriage to someone not of royal birth was considered a modernising gesture.

Inspired by Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth: Masks of Eternity, Diallo creates new mythologies with her works, combining traditional photography with a modernising take on her subjects' identities through masks, regalia, and spiritual symbols.

He was seen as a modernising rightwinger.

New Labour was elected on a modernising agenda.

It could provide Mr Schröder with a last chance before the elections to prove his increasingly questioned credentials as a modernising reformer.

THIS may seem an odd moment to make the claim, but Britain is a country in the grip of a modernising frenzy.

Noura may come from a very long family line of griot artists, but she is patently also a modernising, transformative force in Mauritanian music.

Drawing on the likes of David Cannadine and Peter Hennessy, he portrays the monarchy as a modernising, continually "self-reinventing" institution.