Sentence examples for modernizations from inspiring English sources

The Environmental Protection Agency has said for years that some dirty old power plants and other factories are frozen in time by the 1977 Clean Air Act, because if they make even small modernizations, they must clean up to modern standards.

With the exception of various modernizations, including the installation of central heating, electricity, and elevators, no significant architectural alterations or additions were made until 1959 60, when the east front was extended 32.5 feet (10 metres) under the supervision of J. George Stewart.

The rectangular component is in turn surrounded by towers containing elements such as restrooms, elevators, and kitchens, which allow easy access for repairs or for making any future modernizations of the building's service functions.

Meanwhile, inch by inch, he ceded authority to Galassi, while suffering (or ignoring) the modernizations on the business side, essential for survival, that were being quietly implemented.

This is not something subject to alleged reforms or "modernizations".

Over the past decade, Fat Possum has successfully marketed a raw Mississippi sound, sometimes with rock-and-roll-tempered modernizations, to a younger generation.

To summarize, the irony with which Weber accounted for rationalization was driven by the deepening tension between modernity and modernization.

Baron's vast and only partly realized program to establish the Italian humanist tradition as a major source of modernity was deliberately juxtaposed to yet another tendency in German scholarship that sought the roots of modernity and modernization in Protestantism.

Another criterion that could be used to define the School is an essentially ambivalent attitude toward Western modernity (or toward modernization as Westernization).

In concrete terms, this means that Habermas develops a two-level social theory that includes an analysis of communicative rationality, the rational potential built into everyday speech, on the one hand; and a theory of modern society and modernization, on the other (White 1989).

Weber's problem with modernity originates from the fact that it required a historically unique constellation of cultural values and social institutions, and yet, modernization has effectively undermined the cultural basis for modern individualism and its germinating ground of disciplinary society, which together had given the original impetus to modernity.