As part of his naval reforms, Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich of Russia demanded modernization of the Kõpu lighthouse, in 1859.
Since King Abdel Aziz unified the county in 1932, the royal dynasty has had to balance the demands of modernization and the intolerance of the Wahhabis, whose antecedents were vital to the battles that established the kingdom.
To sweeten the package for the administration, Mr. Frank's legislation included two measures that Mr. Bush has long demanded — a modernization of the Federal Housing Administration and tighter regulation of the government-sponsored lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Their predecessors were the Young Ottomans, one of the first proper dissent movements in the Ottoman Empire whose representatives favored an Islamic and traditionalist response to the empire's modernization, demanding to preserve the sultanate while opposing the centralized modernization of their culture at the hands of a shallow bureaucratic class.
Boiled down to its essentials, however, the argument links his discourse theory with an analysis of the demands inherent in modern legal systems, which Habermas understands in light of the history of Western modernization.
"Our thematic is going to be — you're going to love this — that if you have an air-traffic delay that's not caused by weather, take the extra time at the airport and call your two senators and your congressman and demand they pass the modernization act," Gingrich enthused.
Norwegian government demands that the refurbishment and modernization of these buildings should be sustainable.
It can satisfy different demands for new plants and modernization of existing plants.
It's no secret that much of the U.S.'s infrastructure is in desperate need of repair or modernization, and that many cities struggle to meet demands for infrastructure and affordable housing.
The increasing interest and demand for the capabilities delivered through modernization projects are driven by the fact that organizations are now seeking alternatives to historic IT approaches.
But the Russians are also demanding the halt to U.S. nuclear modernization, which the bipartisan Perry-Schlesinger Commission recommended to the U.S. Congress and is necessary to maintain an effective deterrent.
