Sentence examples for failed to modernize from inspiring English sources

Some were elegant and beautiful, innovative in mechanics and design, but failed to modernize or yielded to more nimble competition.

Wrestling officials worldwide have been scrambling since February to address criticism that the sport, despite its classic appeal, had failed to modernize with the rest of the Olympic Games.

The conventional wisdom in New Orleans — I've heard this a million times — is that the city is so feckless, lazy, and corrupt that it failed to modernize its equipment and compete with other port cities in the Sun Belt.

States across North Africa through the Middle East and Southern Asia had failed to modernize their forms of government and economy.

Why did Argentina fail to modernize along this dimension?

But, much of this won't happen if we fail to modernize and repair our communications systems to be ready for these advances.

In this reading, the Germany of the Wilhelmine period had failed to develop along healthy liberal-democratic lines; the inability to modernize politically prepared the ground for Nazism.

A certain Vladimir Putin was in power for the first eight years of the decade and conspicuously failed to diversify or modernize the economy.

The agency clearly failed to press industry to modernize the equipment it uses to combat spills.

It could be yet another failed attempt to modernize how the Government works.

It is a result of the economic policy of Vladimir Putin, who failed to move the country to modernize.