Sentence examples for failure to modernize from inspiring English sources

But restrictions on foreign investment that were enacted after the financial crisis and a failure to modernize the banking system continue to hold back the country's economic development, according to the U.S. State Department.

This failure to modernize stems from a lack of political will among national governments, said Marcel de Haas, a security expert at Clingendael, the Netherlands Institute of International Relations.

A failure to modernize New York City's waste water treatment plants in areas near reservoirs is jeopardizing an effort to avoid having to build a $6 billion filtration plant, officials say.

They include Un soñador para un pueblo (1958; "A Dreamer for the Nation"), which deals with the failure to modernize Spain under Charles III, Las meninas (1960; "The Ladies-in-Waiting"), which is about the court painter Velázquez, and El concierto de San Ovidio (1962; The Concert at Saint Ovide), which is set in Paris during the French Revolution.

The failure to modernize industry or agriculture, the growing corruption in government, the ubiquitous drunkenness, the record numbers of murders and suicides, the terrible state of Russian health care and the problems that come with a shrinking population will fall on Mr. Medvedev's young shoulders.

A1 New York Faces Voting Suit The Justice Department has threatened to sue New York State over its failure to modernize its voting system, saying the city "is further behind" every other state in the nation in complying with new guidelines stemming from the 2000 presidential election.

The PLA authors laid the bulk of the blame for China's defeat on the Qing dynasty's failure to effectively modernize.

But the failure of Congress to modernize its own facility also raises questions about the Obama administration's ability to limit emissions from existing power plants when it has not been able to do so at a government-run facility so close to home.

Her thesis is on the failure of past efforts to modernize Afghanistan.

Wages did not give you the failure of the steel industry to modernize.

The administration's failure to guard America's nuclear secrets is allowing China to modernize its ballistic missile force, thereby increasing the threat to our country and to our allies.