But the surging numbers of civilian refugees fleeing into neighboring Turkey since the air strikes began with a vengeance two weeks ago are a testament to its brutal efficacy, especially when modernized, as it has been here, with unbridled combat air power.
Well, that was then, and Bermuda now is far more modernized, with its major industry being re-insurance, which has had its ups and downs in the global recession.
Because the original theme song was very known and respected, the producers kept it the same and raised it with a modernized beat.
Though it declined in Europe after the 17th century, it survived in Spain, modernized with complete keywork, as the tenora (tenor) and tiple (treble), which lead the bands for the sardana, the national dance of Catalonia.
It consisted of seven minutes of modernized disco, with hazy synthesizers and hints of dissonance fading in and out atop a steady beat.
Hans-Peter Lindstrøm probably sealed his own fate in 2005, with the release of a suave but digressive dance track called "I Feel Space". It consisted of seven minutes of modernized disco, with hazy synthesizers and hints of dissonance fading in and out atop a steady beat.
A sleek, modernized brasserie with an open kitchen and seats for 120, it also has a separate retail bakery and cafe.
His music is modernized Afrobeat, with synthesizers instead of horns and Hammond organs; it uses trancelike call-and-response vocal forms, but with stylized new rhythm-and-blues vocalists instead of the hoarse, dire chants of old Afrobeat.
Fifth, the modernized Russian military with its precision missiles and state-of-the-art aircraft can defeat the forces of evil with minimal civilian casualties.
