Sentence examples for path of modernization from inspiring English sources

I am optimistic that relations can improve as Russia moves along on the path of modernization.

In this way Ali Riza set his son on the path of modernization.

After having settled Turkey firmly within its national borders and set it on the path of modernization, Atatürk sought to develop his country's foreign policy in similar fashion.

Congress, the Post says, has "sent a clear message to the Arab world: No matter how far you move along the path of modernization and cooperation, Americans may be unable to distinguish you from al-Qaeda".

In the coming decade, every city in China will try aggressively to follow a path of modernization, urbanization and industrialization.

But surely there must be one or two African leaders who have the vision to take their country down the proven path of modernization via the development of a tradable goods manufacturing sector, providing a precedent for others to follow.

Following the Meiji Restoration in 1867, the new Imperial government of Japan set out upon a path of rapid modernization and recruited many European and American academics and military experts to help expedite the process.

Samuel Huntington, the political theorist, once suggested that some amount of corruption could be a "welcome lubricant," easing the path to modernization, and that if economic growth is what you are after "the only thing worse than a society with a rigid, over-centralized, dishonest bureaucracy is one with a rigid, over-centralized, honest bureaucracy".

Though Japan was the first Asian nation to blaze a path to modernization and prosperity after the war, it has remained a protectorate of the United States and a political dwarf relative to its industrial prowess and clout in the top ranks of the global economy.

The Greek-run side of the port, which endured a series of debilitating worker strikes in the three years before Cosco came to town, has been forced by the Chinese competition to seek its own path to modernization.

After a meeting of a parliamentary committee in early July, the government issued a document stating that while urbanization "is the only path to modernization," it must be planned better.