Sentence examples for a modernizing effect from inspiring English sources

The neckline was rather eye-catching, severe almost, with an asymmetrical cross-over that seemed intended as a modernizing effect.

All these innovations should have come from Egypt, and had they, they would have had a modernizing effect on the entire Arab world, particularly its other big stagnating countries -- Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia.

Upon their return they took important positions and were a modernizing force in society.

Before he headed the School of Public Health, he was a modernizing force as chief of medicine at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital.

The new measures and appointments are intended to help the government regain its credentials as a modernizing force, political analysts said.

While liberals have seen the Second Vatican Council as a modernizing force, conservatives like Benedict argue — as did the document released Tuesday — that it represented not change but continuity.

And he does so with formidable erudition, an acute sensitivity to differences in religion and culture, and a rare sense of objectivity". "This grand work in comparative sociology offers a systematic comparison of nationalism's modernizing effect on both new and older nations.

The arguments by friends of markets have changed over time, but there are some threads that unite this tradition: the emphasis on individualism and on markets as helping to emancipate individuals from traditional ties, a "negative" understanding of freedom, a focus on the innovating and modernizing effects of markets, and on their positive impact on the welfare of society.

The findings demonstrate that cross-national interactions, particularly trade and IGO memberships, are strong predictors of cultural similarity that complement the modernizing effects of economic development.

This is unlikely to happen, but anti-government Ukrainians, desperate for the modernizing effects they believe EU membership will bring, hope that Yanukovych's allies in the ruling Party of Regions will continue defecting to the pro-European side, eventually forming a majority.

Plans for a modernizing effort are afoot, and Rogan says that he is considering a requirement that all patent applications be filed electronically.