Sentence examples for modernisation by from inspiring English sources
But if Turkey is to achieve true modernisation by getting into the EU, the military must lose its special status.
As MacAroon unites the warring factions, Camomilla begins to argue for modernisation, by dint of allowing a future daughter to ascend to the throne, while others discuss proportional representation or even "democracy like the Greeks".
We believe changes and modernisation are long overdue and it should be implemented jointly with the spirit of industrial relations, whereas Royal Mail want to impose changes and so-called modernisation by diktat".
On becoming leader in 1994 he completed Labour's "modernisation" by replacing the bit of its constitution that called for common ownership of the economy with a commitment to the "enterprise of the market", the "rigour of competition" and a "thriving private sector"—as well as high-quality public services.
On Mischief Reef, for example, China has built a "fisherman's shelter" in the form of a three-storey concrete fortress, surrounded by five octagonal structures, also in concrete.Such digging-in, accompanied by frenetic military modernisation by most of the claimants, is one reason to worry that the stakes in the South China Sea are becoming bigger.
For years now, I've nursed dark suspicions about this weirdly arbitrary, unfair system and its anonymous officers, its Opus Dei-like arrogance and paranoia - and about its deleterious effect on movie culture in particular, and American culture in general, in the 40 years since its modernisation by its powerful chieftain Jack Valenti, who retired two years ago.
And the European Industrial Emissions Directive, agreed in June 2009, means old belchers like Longannet would anyway have to make pricey modernisations by 2020.Still, any first go at such an unproven technology would be expensive and hard to cost precisely, says Stuart Haszeldine of Edinburgh University: "You can't just rock up at a supermarket and buy a CCS project".
Continuing a modernisation begun by his father, and underwritten by foreign aid, the king oversaw a transformation.
Amid euphoric scenes in Vatican Square, Pope Francis defied his modernisation drive by canonising two of his recent predecessors.
But Ebadi's mother witnessed the banning of the hijab in Iran as part of a modernisation programme by Reza Shah, who became king of Iran in 1926.
Despite recent revisionism, the modernisation promoted by David Cameron after he won his party leadership a decade ago was based on ideas to help the most disadvantaged in society.
