Sentence examples for against modernization from inspiring English sources

"Against modernization.

Fukuyama, accordingly, interprets reactionary political movements and atavistic cultural differences, when they flare up, as irrational backlashes against modernization.

Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union were unprepared for this revolution against modernization and for traditional ways.

Just like... the Defense Planning Guidance forced up the issues of how you begin to balance risks: war risks, against personnel risks, against transformation risks, against modernization risks.

In the last two decades of the 20th century, television screens and newspaper articles around the world portrayed Tehrān as a deeply religious city steeped in tradition, fighting against modernization and Westernization.

These were the ideas of the Southern Agrarians — that extraordinarily accomplished and influential set of writers and critics who embraced the modernism of Yeats and Pound and Eliot, exactly because it seemed to them a protest against modernization of all types, while they dreamed of a reformed "organic" society in the South, with that "identity," that cult of "private honor," still accessible.

Indeed, modern Pashtun history is, in part, one of backlashes against overambitious modernization efforts that lacked local "buy-in".

Gandhi argued against the modernization of India, preferring to maintain the authenticity of traditional village life and spirituality.

As each battleship arrived for modernization during the early and mid-1980s the Bofors mounts that remained aboard were removed due in large part to the ineffectiveness of such manually aimed weapons against modern day jet fighters and enemy missiles.

The church, he counseled, should guard its sacred teachings against secularism and modernization.

At a Goldman Sachs investor conference in New York, Mr. Albaugh predicted a flattening in military spending as the government attempts to rein in the deficit and balance the need for more troops against Pentagon weapon modernization plans, Bloomberg News reported.