Sentence examples for modernized under from inspiring English sources

Pape and Dufferin stations are the first slated for modernization under this project, and Islington will also be modernized under larger capital projects aimed at greater accessibility and reconstruction of bus loading platforms.

Al-ʿAqabah's harbour, somewhat improved by the British in World War II, was greatly modernized under independent Jordan; deepwater facilities were opened in 1961.

Among the historic buildings restored and redesigned or modernized under his supervision are Lewisohn Hall at Columbia University, the Schermerhorn Row block at the South Street Seaport, the Brooklyn Historical Society building, the National Lighthouse Museum on Staten Island and the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan.

At the opening ceremony of the Marmaray station, at Yenikapı, Erdoğan quoted Mehmet the Conqueror in Ottoman Turkish, a language drastically modernized under Atatürk.

Prussia's recent gains had been hard-won: thirty years earlier, Frederick had engaged in protracted wars in Silesia and Bohemia, resulting in Prussia's annexation of most of Silesia, and now, with the economy and society modernizing under his direction, Prussia was emerging as a world power.

His often imprecise mathematical exposition, masked by a delightful prose style, was alien to the generation in the 1930s who modernized French mathematics under the collective pseudonym of Nicolas Bourbaki, and they proved to be a powerful force.

Bush administration officials said the proposals sought to simplify and modernize regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

A second, he said, would be to persuade the military that it could modernize faster under civilian rule, when there would be less corruption.

As explained to me in Paris, President Nicolas Sarkozy now thinks that France will only "modernize itself" under foreign pressure, which signifies trying to match German performance.

They include Un soñador para un pueblo (1958; "A Dreamer for the Nation"), which deals with the failure to modernize Spain under Charles III, Las meninas (1960; "The Ladies-in-Waiting"), which is about the court painter Velázquez, and El concierto de San Ovidio (1962; The Concert at Saint Ovide), which is set in Paris during the French Revolution.

But it is for the same reasons that his appointment at Balenciaga — nearly a century-old fashion house that was thoroughly modernized over the last 15 years under the considered eye of Nicolas Ghesquière — bothers so many people, or at least the fashion purists.