Sentence examples for great modernising from inspiring English sources

The province was the birthplace of Iran's great modernising king, Reza Shah, who showered millions on Mazandaran during the interwar period in the form of mechanised farms and German-engineered railways and tunnels.

Fourteen years later, in 1945, we won a landslide for the greatest modernising government in our history.

That complicates the great task of modernising the country, and particularly of creating decent jobs.

I think they did a great job of modernising it but with love for the original.

Judged over the past four years, not the past four weeks, he has done a great deal to modernise his party, stamping out social illiberalism, reducing the Europe-bashing and adding environmentalism.

Regions built round dynamic knowledge economies not antiquarian Anglo-Saxon labels that would make a far greater contribution to modernising the UK than wasted attempts to apply neoliberal ideology.

Together, in a typically bold project, they bought and modernised the Great Eastern Hotel at Liverpool Street Station in London.

Apart from a few speedily corrected slip-ups (Vicki has a rueful story about the time Stavros decided that fluorescent strip-lighting would be a great idea), they have modernised the place sympathetically.