Sentence examples for modernising that from inspiring English sources

It was the rotting Ottoman remains that the British occupied (a big eye on the oil) and started modernising (that Blairish word) after the first world war, with largely unsuccessful results that culminated in Saddam Hussein, from a pro-Nazi clan in Tikrit, a city now occupied by Isis.

"But now it is in such need of modernising that it threatens to become a major obstacle to realising the club's dreams".

A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "The government is always looking at how our electoral system can modernise – that's why we are bringing in online registration and introducing individual electoral registration this summer.

And there in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed!' Elaborating on her conspiracy theory, Cotillard even suggests the towers were an outdated 'money sucker' which would have cost so much to modernise that it was easier to destroy them.

The UK government claimed the act, which became law in May, brought in "modernising reforms" that protected the public from undemocratic industrial action.

It lavished money on modernising a system that, at the time of independence in 1947, had only steam locomotives.

Having been elected as the acme of modernity, he failed to take a single step towards modernising the instrument that was his curse and his delight.

Without faster growth of industry, the country will struggle to absorb labour it hopes to free up from modernising subsistence farms that provide a living to 80% of its people.The government is trying to help industry by building roads, railways, power stations and dams following the Chinese playbook.

The process of modernising childbirth practices that has been part of the primary health care programme of the Government of India since post independence takes many forms with emphasis currently being placed on hospital births.

The detail counts and will be pored over between now and polling day: the manifesto's aggressive revival of the "right to buy", now extended to all housing association tenants, invites comparison with the Thatcher era, and is hard to reconcile with the core modernising claim that "we are all in this together".

And answering these questions points to a troubling but inescapable conclusion: unlike other countries that are modernising their power industries successfully, America is muddling along with an approach to electricity reform that is deeply flawed.