Sentence examples for modernize in from inspiring English sources

He thought these regimes could fall, but he did not believe that the nations would modernize in a Western direction.

John Thain has the unenviable task of persuading New York Stock Exchange members (the traders who own the place) to modernize in ways that could threaten their livelihoods.

"But rather than giving the priority to financial support, they should help us educate our people so that we can modernize in a Marshallese way.

He added that the size of the city's emergency system — with 12 million 911 calls each year — made it uniquely hard to modernize, in part because most vendors "have never put in systems in a large system like this".

The American model has put down roots around the world that are too deep to be uprooted entirely by the recent wave of scandals, especially in developing countries like India that have pushed hard to modernize in recent years.

"New source review has this perverse incentive for the dirtiest, oldest plants -- the ones from the 1940's and 50's -- to change nothing, to not modernize in any way," he said.

Railroad passenger service has also been modernized in my state.

Porfirio Díaz (1876 80; 1884–1911), Mexico City was modernized in the manner of Paris under the administrator Georges Eugène, Baron Haussmann.

The facility was remodeled and modernized in 1963 and again in 1977.

Although most of the buildings were modernized in 1796, the Gothic cloisters remain.

To mark the event, the already modernist Zilkha Gallery was modernized in a renovation completed last fall.