Sentence examples for modernization meaning from inspiring English sources

With regard to modernization (meaning technology investment), the service will keep funding science and technology research, and upgrades to equipment that is in the force, but largely forego development of new combat systems.

Panetta's last place to cut is "modernization," meaning hardware.

And that could stymie its 2016 modernization efforts — meaning less stuff like new fighter jets and joint lightweight tactical vehicles (JLTVs).

And Xiandaihua — modernization — carries only material meaning.

The armed forces will have to be also similarly empowered to fight against domestic and external threats -- meaning the modernization of the armed forces should continue and be upgraded.

Germany's government and industry agree with the European Union's assessment, but analysts said industry here was unwilling to wait until Europe and Russia can bridge the gap between their different meanings of modernization.

This concept has gained new meanings with the modernization and industrialization of societies.

The COO explained to me that the modernization journey approach used a "segregated model," meaning the leadership of activities were segregated into two teams.

The process of settlement continued, and in the true spirit of modernization theory, the convergence of lifestyles was envisaged, meaning the settling-down of all people.

Confronted with modernization and the West, tradition inevitably took on different meanings.

By some measures, he said, European defense spending had dropped 2 percent a year for the last decade while Europeans were engaged in Kosovo, Libya and Afghanistan, meaning that the savings had come from budgets for modernization.