Sentence examples for modernise with from inspiring English sources

An elite that has commandeered the language so that modernisation (which everyone agrees is long overdue) is in fact not progressive but reactionary: it conflates the need to modernise with the necessity to sell off the profitable parts of the business.

In the basement, the original vaulted Roman baths have been adapted and modernised with three pools of different temperatures.

No one doubts that the archaic, overlapping patchwork of agencies needs modernising, with regulation refocused on a firm's activities rather than its legal form.

The countryside has modernised, with old-style landlords yielding to more enlightened heirs or to corporate farmers, for whom land is a business rather than a source of political power.That has not placated the landless movements.

In his wake, it seems almost every classic performed by a major theatre company is being rewritten and modernised with Australian accents, stripped back to its basics and spat out in a sparse yet shocking new treatment.

At some point modernised with a dinged-up metal desk, sink and toilet, the cell is perhaps less grim than it was in Wilde's time, when evidence of his dysentery overflowed the small tin vessel he had to use for a toilet and made his warders gag.

In the early 19th century this line was shifted somewhat to the east, beyond Utrecht, and later modernised with fortresses.

Moves to modernise it with automated systems have so far met with high levels of resistance amid concerns over security and fraud.

The Commonwealth was formed in 1949 and recently sought to modernise itself with a new charter.

If you modernise us with 21st-century technology, Mr Gove, you will take us a long way.

Mr Santos is rolling out an ambitious plan to modernise Colombia, with reforms of everything from the tax system to social programmes.