Between 1815 and 1861 the economy of the Northern states was rapidly modernizing and diversifying.
That those responsible for modernizing the metropolis are coping with these problems suggests the appropriateness of its official emblem: the God Indra seated atop a sacred white elephant, the four tusks of which denote its celestial status and its ability to accomplish the impossible.
Challoner's purpose in his revision of the Douai-Reims version (1749 50) was to make the Bible more readable by modernizing the language and to correct earlier errors.
The rationale for modernizing the INF was switched from the requirements of flexible response to the more politically marketable aim of matching the deployment of the SS-20, and in November 1981, at the start of negotiations on that issue, Reagan offered to eliminate NATO's INF if all SS-20s were removed.
The Soviet Union possessed large numbers of short-range missiles and had been modernizing them for a decade with such systems as the SS-21, but Gorbachev indicated a readiness to negotiate their complete elimination.
Countries with strong nationalist leaders were more successful in modernizing education.
Italy did not succeed in growing rapidly and thereby modernizing until after World War II.
As minister of finance (1881 87), he implemented reforms aimed at modernizing the Russian economy, notably tax law changes estimated to have reduced the tax burden on the peasantry by one-fourth.
Neither Ch'oe nor his contemporaries, however, could escape the bounds of traditional prosody or succeed in modernizing traditional forms of speech and allusion.
Shimazaki Tōson, pseudonym of Shimazaki Haruki (born March 25 , 1872 Magome, Nagano prefecture, Japan died Aug. 22, 1943, Ōiso, Kanagawa prefecture) Japanese poet and novelist, whose fiction illuminated the clash of old and new values in a Japan feverishly modernizing itself during the period of the Meiji Restoration (1868 1912).
Aḥmad abolished slavery and took other modernizing steps intended to bring Tunisia more in line with Europe, but he also exposed his country to Europe's infinitely greater economic and political power.
