Sentence examples for failed modernization from inspiring English sources

In much of the Arab world, failed modernization by capitalist as well as socialist regimes has led to the resurrection of Islamist parties, with the militant Islamists waiting in the wings.

Still struggling to recover from the 1994 cancellation of a massive, failed modernization plan, called the Advanced Automation System, the F.A.A. has turned to part-for-part replacement of existing systems.

After wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on failed modernization projects that would have replaced the basic air traffic tools, the agency is having more success with its Free Flight strategy, which uses stand-alone systems that represent more manageable technological leaps.

The plot of the "historical romance called Progress," he believed, began to fall apart at Hiroshima and unravelled still more every time modernization theory failed in practice.

Mr. Rossotti, the founder of American Management Systems, who was brought into the agency after the earlier modernization efforts failed, wanted to keep the old system going as data was moved to the new system in segments, beginning with the simplest tax returns, the one-page Form 1040EZ's, to insure reliable access to taxpayer records.

When the Senate's Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act failed to pass the House this year, it was the third such failure of comprehensive reform in a decade.

His modernization program, however, failed.

Environmental protection theories were developed when modernization theories had failed to explain the world and had suggested unfeasible strategies.

Most European allies failed to invest adequately in military modernization when budgets were flush.

He wrote of the stagnation and backwardness that 80 years of modernization had not only failed to eradicate but, across broad expanses of Turkish geography and society, had barely touched.

The I.R.S. went four decades with the same system because two previous modernization attempts, the most recent in the mid-1990's, failed, costing taxpayers $4 billion.