Sentence examples for if modernization from inspiring English sources

America's nuclear arsenal costs the country $31 billion a year and will cost billions more if modernization proceeds.

I was so excited about the upgraded rooms that I called two locations to see if modernization included USB wall plugs, which many hotels now offer.

The nearly continuous wars of the first three decades of the new century resulted in modernization, if not (because of the treasury limitations) enlargement, of the Commonwealth's army.

The U.S. electric system has hundreds of owners and thousands of major players, and each one is determined -- and seemingly empowered -- to stop investments in modernization if progress will reduce some unfair advantage or special interest.

Mr. Corker later said he opposed voting during the lame-duck session but hinted he might switch again if the modernization program and amendments were addressed.

BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX....Even if energy modernization is not fundamental from a scientific perspective, its consequences are profound.

The economy is reeling, threatening the government's support among the economic elite and undermining the longstanding promise by the government of economic modernization, if not political reform.

If anything, the modernization of the armed forces accelerated the process of defeat and withdrawal, culminating in the humiliating failure of five Arab states and armies to prevent a half million Jews from building a new state in the debris of the British Mandate in Palestine in 1948.

This notion is similar to, if not a modernization of, Aquinas's contention that God's essence is to exist.

The deficit spending now envisioned for next year will eat up an additional $200 billion from the hard-currency reserves, and more if the military modernization project continues to be exempt from the budget cuts forced on almost every other economic sector.

And monarchists would argue that many of the monarch's "subjects" — still another archaism commonly used in Britain's royal lexicon — would miss it if the drive for modernization were ultimately to strip the theater and the magic away.