From 1869 to 1881 he was chiefly responsible for modernizing and reorganizing Japan's fiscal system.
Between 1815 and 1861 the economy of the Northern states was rapidly modernizing and diversifying.
Others have endured successive waves of modernizing and renovating but remain basically intact.
The owners have spent tens of millions of dollars modernizing and re-analyzing in order to address safety concerns.
Turkey is an example of a middle-income country that is rapidly modernizing and integrating itself into the world economy.
In an e-mail, Johnson Controls, based in Milwaukee, said it was "modernizing and reinvesting" in the Mexican facility, acquired in 2005, "to reduce its environmental footprint".
Resistance and flight were made possible by Peter's failure, despite all his modernizing and rationalizing, to endow the government with effective means of control on the local level.
Today, a woman, Michelle Bachelet, is the respected defense minister, and she and the army's commander, Gen. Juan Emilio Cheyre, are modernizing and depoliticizing the military.
In fact, Claudio Abbado, in his 13 years as music director, went a long way toward modernizing and internationalizing the orchestra's repertory.
"We're creating a new Sporting News, modernizing and contemporizing it in a way that makes sense for today's rabid die-hard sports fan".
They say the subsidies — in the form of tax breaks on diesel fuel and aid for building, modernizing and scrapping vessels — results in too many boats to chase too few fish, and leaves the industry dependent on public largess.
