Sentence examples for idea of modernisation from inspiring English sources

But as can be seen in the polls, the modernisers have a battle on their hands in the north in convincing the public that they actually support the idea of modernisation rather than it being a cynical political tool to get votes.

Yet pay and working conditions remained terrible, as ruling families and the colonial power, Britain, resisted ideas of modernisation.

The ideas of the modernisation theorists, particularly those of Walt Rostow, remained dominant throughout the 1960s, but it was not long before they came under sustained critique from the intellectual left, who developed a counter-tradition: the dependencia, or dependency, school of thought.

It examines the darker side of modernisation through the micro-society of a rubbish dump.

CHAMPIONS of modernisation theory the idea that prosperity begets democracy are upbeat.

An academic theologian, rather than a parish priest, he became for many, the symbol of modernisation and liberal ideas in the established church.

When Tony Blair decided to slaughter his party's sacred cow, he did so after a great deal of agonising and planning and with a clear idea of what he was going to achieve with that symbolic act of modernisation.

He embarked on a campaign of modernisation.

There are other signs of modernisation.

A programme of "modernisation" is under way in the Commons.

The only form of modernisation that worked was westernisation.