Sentence examples for his modernizing from inspiring English sources

Resistance and flight were made possible by Peter's failure, despite all his modernizing and rationalizing, to endow the government with effective means of control on the local level.

Forgoing the glitz of much contemporary flamenco, Israel Galván (Sept . 20-25 concentrates his modernizing in his own body; Soledad Barrio, in her volcanic performances with Noche Flamenca (Sept . 22-Oct 2), sidesteps the need for any modernizing at all.

"If his modernizing is working, why does he need to imprison peaceful advocates of modernization?" The Washington Post's editorial page asked last week, referring to dozens of political prisoners still behind bars.

Mr. Dalli, a former minister for social policy and finance minister, led the legislative changes that enabled Malta to qualify for E.U. membership, and reflect his modernizing leanings.

His modernizing campaign also includes a plan to reduce the petroleum-rich kingdom's near-total reliance on oil revenue, and to attract tourism.

To many Britons, and not just traditional Labour voters, the youthful victor, with his brainy wife, his three attractive children (with another now on the way), and his modernizing creed, seemed to be just what the country needed.

Haggard is arguably the most influential country singer of his generation, modernizing Lefty Frizzell's way of stretching words or phrases to add a distinctive character.

When his efforts to modernize his territory fail, he kills himself.

The vote left David Cameron's Conservative Party split wide open, with more than half of the members of Parliament who voted going against the prime minister, who himself proposed the measure allowing for gay marriage as part of his program to modernize his party.

Father Angwin, learned, bitter and whiskey-sodden of a morning, despises "His Corpulence" and his morning-bright modernizing schemes.

P. J. A. Feuerbach was knighted in recognition of his achievement in modernizing of the Bavarian penal code, though his political influence was dramatically curtailed as a result of outspoken national-liberal criticisms of Napoleon expressed in pamphlets he published in 1813 and 1814.