Sentence examples for lack of modernisation from inspiring English sources

The cronyism and the lack of modernisation that have characterised his rule are coming back to haunt him, as both the oil price and the rouble crash.

Another daunting problem was the lack of modernisation, with the Sheremetyevo International Airport Moscoww's main airport) being the only airport in the USSR to have been fully computerised.

The mills run by the Strutt family also suffered from a lack of modernisation; although they were at the forefront of fireproofing technology at the start of the 19th century, as the machines the mills used got bigger and more powerful, the Strutts persevered with child labour where adults would have been more adept at using the machinery.

Whether they are cynical or not, a good many MPs are growing weary of lack of change and modernisation.

There's lack of will because modernisation would eliminate corruption opportunities.

It was threatened with closure in 1990 due to lack of funds for needed modernisation, but after public protest, the Berlin Senate undertook to pay for the project.

The ability to make causal inferences about the benefits of "modernisation" is limited by the lack of a comparable control group of critical care units in which there were no modernisation interventions.

The Pentagon report also criticises a "lack of transparency" in China's military modernisation programme and defence spending.

There are other signs of modernisation.

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

Instead of modernisation, we have seen an extension of bureaucracy.