Sentence examples for modernisations in from inspiring English sources

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?

Paradoxically, however, it is a source for populist modernisations in other forms: Cole Porter's musical Kiss Me, Kate, the romcom 10 Things I Hate About You and Anne Tyler's latest novel, Vinegar Girl.

Modernisations in the presented new apparatus enable the time and cost of the test to be reduced and offer enhanced flexibility and application potential for in situ thermal response testing.

"Modernisation" in this case is a euphemism.

British society could do with modernisation, in my view.

For services to IT Modernisation in the Public Sector.

"Consolidated state power is the only instrument of modernisation in Russia.

Urbanisation and economic modernisation in northern Thailand are changing hill-tribe institutions anyway, destroying traditional structures.

"Europe is no longer the sole source of inspiration for modernisation in Russia," says Mr Lukyanov.

SAMPLE PROPERTY Detached "traditional cottage" in need of modernisation in Praa Sands, £450,000.

I wanted to create the UMP to conduct a rigorous policy of long-term modernisation in France.