Sentence examples for proposed modernization from inspiring English sources

He said "Russia, forward!": He proposed modernization; condemned the criminal justice system, which still smacks of Stalin's Gulag; renamed the militia the "police"; joined the Western coalition on Libya; and — well, etc. etc. Yes, but Putin never ceased being No. 1. Putin can take different shapes.

The Navy considered proposals to modernize the three battleships in the early 1920s, but the Spanish military budget was being consumed by the costs of the Rif War in North Africa and so nothing came of the proposed modernization.

The European Commission has proposed a modernization of the Directive 89/552/EEC, also known as the TV without Frontiers Directive (TVWF).

In 1936, the Navy again proposed a modernization for the two ships.

Although Hillary Clinton has not publicly weighed in on that idea, she has signalled her opposition to the proposed nuclear-modernization program.

Mr. Bush has proposed increasing the modernization budget by $20 billion to design and build new weapons systems, and raising pay and benefits by $1 billion, or nearly $750 for each person in uniform.

In December 1978, the Fifth Modernization, a proposed liberalization of the political system to go with China's other moves toward modernity, was posted on Beijing's Democracy Wall — and its author was handed a 15-year prison sentence.

and a group of Democrats have proposed the Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act, legislation that would require all guns to contain enough metal to be detected by metal detectors and X-Ray machines at checkpoints and airports.

"The economic reforms and economic modernization as proposed by President Obama cannot succeed without religious and cultural reforms in the Arab World," said Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding.

Now, as the Senate's Gang of Eight declare it the year of immigration reform with the proposed "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act," we can expect anti-immigrant forces to ramp up their rhetoric.

It raises the issue of modernization, proposing that new values and technologies should be carefully examined by a society before being accepted.