In Mr Pincus's convincing view, James was an experienced ruler with a coherent and forceful strategy for modernising the English state.James's exemplar in this project was France's Sun King, Louis XIV, and his particular brand of avant-garde Gallican Catholicism that supported royal absolutism and opposed any kind of religious pluralism.
It set out the strategy for modernising corporate taxes and proposals for relief for capital gains on substantial shareholdings held by companies.
As part of her strategy to modernise the CDU, she has for years moved gradually leftward.
After watching Philips outline his strategy to modernise the Bradford-based chain, Morrison told the chief executive: "When I left work and started working as a hobby, I chose to raise cattle.
The decisions to put Steve Wright on weekday afternoons and Jonathan Ross in the Saturday morning slot were the key planks in the strategy to modernise Radio 2 in order to attract a younger audience.
The previous two party leaders, Neil Kinnock and John Smith, had begun efforts to modernise the party as a strategy for electoral success, before Smith died in 1994.
The UK needs to modernise its policies and strategies to bring new members into the creative economy.
The ECB, in its development strategy, has concentrated on building up and modernising its clubs, providing significant resources to improve facilities and train 5,500 new coaches a year.
"When I commissioned it, people expected it to sit on a shelf but people forget that the Scottish FA have radically modernised the governance of the game, put a Performance Strategy in place and have made wholesale changes.
This involves modernising its ageing nuclear forces and ensuring that America keeps its technological edge over potential enemies (the "offset strategy", now mainly concerned with robotics, miniaturisation, hypersonics, cyber-warfare and the handling of "big data").
