Sentence examples for modernizing mission from inspiring English sources

He saw no "civilizing" or modernizing mission for them.

The examination of the BBC is occurring at a moment when the 81-year-old corporation has embarked on a modernizing mission to appeal to a younger audience, leading to criticism that it is too big, too commercial and too eager to appeal to the masses.

Frederick Hobday, who was a leading advocate of this modernizing mission, argued that veterinary expertise had to be reorganized around developing and employing effective measures of disease prevention, made in the laboratory and deployed in the field.

"He has played a major role in helping the organization renew and modernize its mission of serving science, technology and society," Dr. Wiesel said in a statement.

In the 1870s, workers modernized the mission by adding a New England-style belfry and replacing tiles with shingles.

Scytl's business is modernizing elections, but its mission is clearly increasing citizen engagement.

We pivoted and analyzed various options that would still allowed us to stay true to our mission of modernizing asthma care," Pejham and Madjd said in an email.

Dr. Langdon spearheaded many important changes to the hundred-year-old Museum, modernizing its administration and operations, and reaffirming its mission of science and education for a new era.

Pound, who had been in England since 1908 on a self-appointed mission to modernize the natives, read the poem and was stunned.

Instead, in 1902, he became an arts professional, joining the Art Nouveau architect Henry van de Velde in a mission to modernize the old culture capital of Weimar.

Since taking over in 2006 Ms. Haberman has been on a mission to modernize the Rockettes while honoring what they do best: precision technique, in which individual bodies work as one to become a glittering human machine.