With the four problem-plagued Victoria-class submarines acquired from Britain in the early 2000s finally achieving full operational capability and the 12 Halifax-class frigates coming out of a major mid-life modernization program, the core of the navy's fighting forces well into the 21st century will be formed.
Tuvaluan life, despite modernization, still rests on a firm traditional base that emphasizes the importance of community consensus and identity.
Central planning authorities have created a cocktail package that serves the ultimate goal of modernization: modern life will take place only in urban contexts.
The effort to apply those teachings in modern life was criticized as a dangerous modernization.
Mr. Funk, whose $200,000-a-year job was created as part of a reorganization meant to breathe new life into the 911 modernization project, has made a career of managing emergency systems.
The majority of the plan Lhota laid out focused on Phase I a short-term, year-long effort to "stabilize" the system and jolt it back to life for full-on modernization in the future.
Second, as a result of modernization and life style changes globally, the anthropometric variables of the studied population may have changed.
A distinct modernization of life-forms occurred, partly because of the demise of many earlier types of organisms.
Efficient transport is the life-blood of economic modernization.
Although some of the political and institutional peculiarities still persist, the rapid modernization of daily life in Switzerland is reflected in changes in the country's habits and cuisine.
"The divorce of Nicolas and Cécilia Sarkozy almost could be considered as a sign — both modest and spectacular — of a modernization of public life," said an editorial on the French political Web site Rue89, which added that finally the ritual displays of happiness and the soap-opera dramas of politics are over.
