Sentence examples for a modernizing effort from inspiring English sources

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

Above all, late developers put the power of the state at the centre of the modernizing effort.

The caliphate itself was abolished in 1924, part of early modernizing efforts by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who founded the secular Turkish Republic on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire.

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

Bohling's analysis of how this 'sober revolution' came about is penetrating and convincing, focused on the reform-minded efforts of a modernizing bloc of technocrats and quality wine producers, which was powered forward by the coming of the Fifth Republic and France's entry into the Common Market". "The Sober Revolution is an essential read for scholars and wine-lovers alike.

Kazakhstan has undertaken costly public relations exercises to cast itself as a modernizing nation, but its lack of political freedoms has undermined that effort.

A modernizing democrat or a "kleptocrat in a Hermès scarf"?

And on the topic of sex Mr. Hunka can't resist a modernizing frankness.

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

The approach is tested on a modernizing urban quarter in the Old City of Beijing.

As well as a modernizing vision for their countries, they share a penchant for Shakespearean drama.