Sentence examples for modernising tendency from inspiring English sources

It lacks the decisive modernising tendency of the Mission: Impossible series, or the anachronistically offensive edge and comic-book fanbase of 2015's earlier throwback-espionage flick Kingsman: The Secret Service.

Secondly it points, perhaps more than the leadership contest, to the residual strength of the "modernising" tendency in the party.

Do NOT miss the 15th-century church, which escaped the modernising tendencies of the Victorians and has original "horsebox" pews, as well as any number of memorials including one bearing this inscription: "To the memory and to record the disastrous deaths of Thomas and Sarah Pincombe and their family of six, all of whom perished by shipwreck together with 187 of their fellow passengers.

Famously, the opening section is a song of praise to the modernising tendencies of bourgeois capitalist rule and it is in the manifesto that we find the insights about globalisation and the spread of capitalist modernity around the world, quotes which garner grudging admiration today for their prescience even from Wall Street and the City.

But he also displays a modernising impulse.

This was the "modernising" phase of Cameron.

Ms Paredes is a modernising social democrat.

Italy was the model of a modernising Mediterranean state.

The tendency is misguided.

His final act may, therefore, turn out to be the most modernising of all.

Both men were keen that their modernising work should not be spoilt by personal rivalry.