Sentence examples for modernization until from inspiring English sources

Nestled in the hills at the southern edge of the state of Puebla, this is a town of some 5,000 people who lived behind the curve of modernization until about a quarter of a century ago, when young men in search of a better life began moving to the United States.

In fact, he was instrumental in planning our current modernization program up until several months ago, and we will miss him greatly when we break ground for construction next month.

But Mr. Bush splashed skepticism on their demands last week by warning that he would not let modernization dollars flow until Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld finished a sweeping review of the Pentagon's cold war strategies, a painstaking process that could sharply revise accepted wisdom about the military's needs.

Starting in 1937, Andrea Doria underwent an extensive modernization, which lasted until 1940.

She was taken into the Kaiserliche Werft shipyard in Kiel for an extensive modernization that lasted until 1910.

Upon arriving in Kiel in June 1909, she was decommissioned and entered a lengthy modernization that lasted until 1914.

After returning to Germany in 1899, she went into drydock at the Imperial Dockyard in Wilhelmshaven for modernization; work lasted until 1902.

From the 15th century until the modernization of Turkey soon after 1918, the basic garments of the general population changed comparatively little.

The deep impoverishment of the Flemish countryside retarded the full modernization of the region until the beginning of the 20th century.

Significant modernization did not begin until after the coup in 1970 that brought Qaboos bin Said (Qābūs ibn Saʿīd) to power, at which point Oman rapidly began to develop an advanced economy.

Elders continued to oversee the choice of spouses until a wave of modernization swept across the country in the early eighties.