The first rejoins, "But I was told that there's a clown in that tent!" For modernizing reformers such as Shukri Ghanem, Libya's major problems are poor management and isolation, and the solutions are better management and global integration.
Regulation often has the effect of modernizing business operations and spurring innovation and job creation.
Other observers say the protests are less a matter of economic cycles, communication technology, or a modernizing and maturing citizenry, and more an issue of deeply ingrained systemic problems in dysfunctional democracies that are reaching some kind of breaking point.
Some works in "Manhattan Contrasts" try to convey the modernity of the city with a self-consciously modernizing style.
Keirsey's real problem is that he couldn't be bicultural; he was too much the gung-ho warrior and did not embrace the modernizing ethos, which would have made his superiors more charitably disposed toward him.
The Dalai Lama's second modernizing move was on Sept. 24.
He saw no "civilizing" or modernizing mission for them.
A modernizing democrat or a "kleptocrat in a Hermès scarf"?
We know that modernizing and better equipping our schools works.
More than drugs or the intransigence of the rebels, Colombia's real problem is how to reconcile two incompatible personalities -- the feudal, paternalistic side represented by my grandfather and the new, modernizing side, represented by my uncle, Chiquillo and the interns.
