Sentence examples for modernisations * from inspiring English sources

The second problem is that the modernisations of both Stalin and Peter the Great were driven by clear military goals.

He brilliantly turns Ovid's witty and elegant modernisations of myth back into the dark stuff of his own primal imaginings – into Ted Hughes poems, in other words.

In letters to a Chinese state official, Chung said that he wanted to "make some contributions to the modernisations [sic] of the Motherland".

Wei Jingsheng, perhaps the Chinese dissident best-known among outsiders, had gone to jail in 1979 for wanting to add to Deng Xiaoping's list of "four modernisations" in industry, science, farming and defence: why not, he had asked, democracy too?

Mr Koizumi claims to be pushing through many modernisations to government and the economy, but in the absence of an opposition to prod it along the push has slowed.

Incremental reforms of German tenancy law have enabled landlords to force through "energetic modernisations" of their properties and pass down up to 11% of their costs to the tenants.

Other projects include modernisation of the Thameslink line, the provision of an additional 1,300 rail carriages to help cut overcrowding, an extensive programme of station modernisations and more investment in freight.

Modernisation of the tube.

But modernisation has outstripped democratisation.

Modernisation from above has stumbled.

Modernisation is a necessity.