Sentence examples for modernized to be from inspiring English sources

Though the film took place on Nantucket, by the 1970s the island was too far modernized to be convincingly transformed to resemble a 1940s resort, so production was taken to Mendocino, California, on the West Coast of the US.

In fact, by the end of 1942, the only combat-ready battleships in the navy were the three Vittorio Venetos because the fuel shortage had caused the four modernized battleships to be removed from service.

Houses that need to be modernized cost much less.

The fleet needs to be modernized, and Senate paralysis is keeping it from happening.

It needs to be modernized — not abandoned — for the still new century.

We added another 250 stores, and modernized 700 — redesigned them to be more customer friendly.

"The system surrounding the elections hasn't changed much and it needs to be modernized," Ms. MacNamara said.

The old system, modernized and updated, continues to be an important low-cost form of public transportation.

Tom Kelly, an M.T.A. spokesman, said that the 50-year-old fan, which is used to remove subway smoke in the event of a fire, had to be modernized and that public hearings would be held.

"The military needs to be modernized, and the Vietnamese like Russian weapons," the diplomat said, adding, however, that "there is no way that they are going to sell any weapons until Vietnam has an economy to support their purchase".

The Democrats, led by Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, who had initially been critical of the tax plan, said economists had convinced them that the tax rules needed to be modernized and that "current rules disproportionately favor the most affluent".