Sentence examples for started to modernize from inspiring English sources
Since then, Mr. Li has started to modernize those apartments.
Soon, though — as France industrialized further, and as photography vitiated whole traditions of portrait painting — Corot's women started to modernize.
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.
Ignatev, started serious reforms to modernize the secondary schools and to establish a system of vocational and technical education, which he regarded as most important for the industrialization of Russia.
The government started digging giant tunnels there to modernize sewers and electric lines last year — but these tunnels are being hastily filled before the Games, without any improvements, they say.
As I left my job last year, I started re-learning programming, trying to "modernize" my skillset in the Red Queen fashion.
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.
"My first priority is to modernize Serbia, starting above all with the economy," he said.
