Sentence examples for modernizing project from inspiring English sources

It bodes well for Salonen's modernizing project that the second gala, the "difficult" one, attracted the most public interest.

Blair likes to measure his modernizing project in terms of upgrading the country's technological prowess, stocking its skills bank and keeping it on the front lines of global competition.

None of this means that an inclusive Israeli identity does not exist: the Hebrew language, a tradition of civil rights shadowed by persecution, national festivals from the religious calendar, affiliation with historic Jewish civilizations — in short, the new Jewish identity that Labor Zionists grasped as their modernizing project.

It is now refurbishing and modernizing all 68 of them as the last major step in the building's $550 million modernization project.

Having lived in Paris as it rebuilt itself into a city of broad boulevards and roundabouts, Ismail embarked on a similar project of modernizing Cairo during the 1860s.

The City Council said Monday that it would investigate cost overruns and delays in the Bloomberg administration's project of modernizing the personnel system for the municipal work force.

There was general disenchantment with the project of "modernizing" the new states that had emerged after World War II, and many American anthropologists began to turn away from the social sciences.

Even with the ministry's budget falling every year of his tenure, he said, it has been able to complete important projects, like modernizing the facilities at more than 100 publicly accessible ancient sites.

In a speech in June, Mr. Putin suggested the Kremlin would try to prime the economy with government spending by dipping into about $171 billion in reserves in sovereign wealth funds to finance infrastructure projects like modernizing the trans-Siberian railway.

Jerusalem, a holy place steeped in Jewish, Christian and Muslim history, is modernizing with new hotel projects, trendy boutiques and restaurants.

Although rapidly modernizing, China's ability to project force, especially using special operations forces far away from home, is questionable at best.