Sentence examples for modernising societies from inspiring English sources

Those cities have continued to grow because of the natural economic advantages such concentrations of human talent hold for modernising societies.

The report also says climate change will slow down the benefits of a modernising society, such as regular economic growth and more efficient crop production exactly the types of things that Exxon argues are delivered now only by relatively cheap and available fossil fuels.

Having made their fortunes in the industrial revolution, they formed the first big foundations and set about modernising American society.

At the same time, this society was fiercely modernising; technology was harnessed in the service of antique values.

Rather, in his corporate state he wanted to preserve Portugal as a rural and religious society where industrialisation and other modernising influences would be excluded.

The young Soyinka is witness to a society torn between traditional and modernising forces, and some of the first protests against colonial rule in the 40s.

Because he is by his own account well-intentioned, he believes that nothing should get in the way of this modernising purpose, the exercise of his benevolent reason on the turbulent society below.

The modernising extension and advisory services programme, led by Illinois State University, works with public, private and civil society organisations to promote new strategies and approaches to rural extension and advisory service delivery in feed the future countries.

The modernising left argues that a Britain is waiting to be born that can best be expressed by Labour's values of fairness, a cohesive society and individual liberty.

This was the "modernising" phase of Cameron.

But he also displays a modernising impulse.