Old Church Slavonic was written in Glagolitic for only about 300 years; Glagolitic gradually gave way to Cyrillic, which is still used for Church Slavonic service books in Orthodox Christian churches and (in modernized form) for certain modern Slavic languages: Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbian.
Several high-ranking U.S. generals, on the other hand, emphasized creation of a compact and modernized Chinese ground force able to protect the airfields in China and to assist in opening an overland supply route across northern Burma.
Although graduates of the Tokyo School of Music and modernized court musicians were involved in many of the first concerts and compositions in Western classical music, the major Japanese forces in that direction came from young men who studied in Europe.
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.
The classification called old style or, in America, modernized old style is reserved for revivals of old faces undertaken by contemporary type designers, a practice typified by the important work of one of England's truly prestigious type designers, Stanley Morison.
In many states the indefeasible share system exists alongside a modernized version of the old common-law estates of dower and curtesy, which have now been generally assimilated to each other under the single heading of dower.
A modernized INF made more sense than systems designed for battlefield use, because they posed a direct threat to the Soviet homeland and thus challenged Soviet ideas of confining any nuclear exchanges to NATO and Warsaw Pact countries, with superpower territory accorded sanctuary status.
That "zero option" was rejected by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, and, despite warnings from the Soviet Union that deployment of a modernized INF would mean the end of negotiations, the first Tomahawk and Pershing II missiles were delivered in late 1983.
In the wake of the humiliation of these forced concessions, Yuan launched a movement to revive the monarchy, with some modernized features, and to place himself on the throne.
Not until 1955 were the "modernized parity" prices put into effect on a gradual basis.
Under an ambitious five-year development plan, inaugurated in 1968, the town was thoroughly modernized.
