Sentence examples for modernization campaign from inspiring English sources

But ever since imperial Russia's scientific modernization campaign, Russians have prided themselves on their mathematical and engineering skills — remember Sputnik.

In his modernization campaign, he has allowed drinking of alcohol in public and freedom in women's dress.

But the hotels of fondest memory were the Stacy-Trent and the Hotel Hildebrecht, grand in the 1920's and 1930's and victims of a modernization campaign after the urban riots of the 1960's.

Senior Defense Department officials say China has undertaken an aggressive military modernization campaign that will result in more submarines, surface warships and combat aircraft able to challenge foreign armed forces across the region.

In 1973, the military strongman Park Chung-hee tried to ban written invitations, flowers and gifts from weddings and funerals, in the belief that such customs detracted from his modernization campaign.

Even transit officials, while crowing about a $180 million modernization campaign, are ruing the replacement of the old P.C.C. cars, named for the Electric Railway Presidents Conference Committeee, a group of streetcar executives who gathered in 1929 to develop a standardized trolley.

It is a renaissance of which Mr. Garc M?uez might be skeptical, having shown some hostility to the city's modernization campaigns, like the time when the sprawling downtown market was removed from the walled city and planted a short drive away.

All of this is good news for the Kremlin, particularly President Dmitri A. Medvedev, whose big campaign at the moment is a modernization drive.

The rulers of Britain may have embarked on an aggressive campaign of modernization -- what with the Millennium Dome, the transformation of the House of Lords and all that throbbing techno music -- but a segment of the entertainment industry remains stubbornly wedded to ancient notions of the British character.

As a consequence of the global campaign and modernization, further changes in age composition of the childbearing women population can be anticipated particularly in the developing countries.

In the 21st century, a new oil and gas boom helped to improve the situation in the Azerbaijan's science and technology sectors, and the government launched a campaign aimed at modernization and innovation.