Sentence examples for modernizing that from inspiring English sources

The '60s secularizing and "modernizing" that orders went through, discarding habits, common prayer life and so on, were a strategic error for which many orders today have paid the price: drastically shrinking numbers and remaining members who are in their 70s and older.

It's far more common for a group to self-immolate, get stagnant, find itself mired in (lucrative) nostalgia, or, worse, become so gripped by the notion of modernizing that it awkwardly embraces anything overtly novel (like aggressive use of the vocoder, or rapping, or bass drops).

So much for the "modernizing" that Clinton had bragged about.

In France he was responsible for the successful plan designed to rebuild and modernize that nation's crumbled economy.

Vietnam has clearly had more pressing concerns in the last half-century: wars, crushing poverty and now the push to modernize that keeps adding more cables to those already-snarled Hanoi power lines that look like expressionist paintings.

Muslim governments — first in Turkey, then in Egypt and Iran — made great efforts to modernize, that is, to Westernize, the weaponry and equipment of their armed forces; they even dressed them in Western-style uniforms and marched them to the tune of brass bands.

"Maybe it's also time to look at the water rights system at some point, and figure out how we can modernize that system so it can accommodate practices like this one".

But instead of slashing and burning, it has developed a sensible plan that links reduced spending with modernizing reforms that will let it contribute more troops to NATO operations.

I wanted to modernize that behavior".

Mr. Rodriguez is known for sexy dressing, but it's also intriguing how he modernizes that.

Long before Mr. Bush came to office, China said it planned to "modernize" that force, meaning it would slowly become bigger and more accurate.