Sentence examples for start modernizing from inspiring English sources

"The financial crisis could be an opportunity for Medvedev to start modernizing the economy in order to produce goods that are more competitive on world markets.

Mr. Tenet has done an effective job of working with Congress to get the money needed to start modernizing the N.S.A. and to attract a new generation of analysts and agents to the C.I.A. Unlike some of his predecessors, Mr. Tenet is not known for bending intelligence reports to support administration policies.

If we ended this neglect we could also launch a transportation manufacturing renaissance across America because when we start building and modernizing our economy again, U.S. factories will start humming.

Since then, Mr. Li has started to modernize those apartments.

The imperial rulers of China, most recently humiliated by France, had reluctantly started to modernize their vast domain; and British entrepreneurs, who had long chafed at the Middle Kingdom's stubborn isolationism, were drawn to the new possibility of investments and profits.

NEARLY five years ago, when Kazakhstan was hailed as a new democracy with great potential wealth, an American energy company bought one of the world's largest coal-fired generating plants in the northern part of the country and started to modernize it.

Some 150 years after Japan started to modernize during the Meiji restoration, the country's per capita G.D.P. is still only 80percentt of that of the United States in terms of purchasing power parity — although, in nominal terms, it has caught up.

BMBF has already started to modernize and internationalise Germany's higher education system in science.

Bulmahn: We have started to modernize our research system to handle today's challenges...

We can start by reducing and modernizing the corporate tax rate system.

As a start, we should modernize both Nafta and Cafta to upgrade the weak labor and environmental provisions included in both flawed agreements.