Sentence examples for sweeping modernization from inspiring English sources
Tiong Bahru's charm has largely survived Singapore's sweeping modernization because the country's Urban Redevelopment Authority designated it a conservation area in 2003 and carefully polices any changes to its buildings.
The Hillsborough disaster prompted a sweeping modernization of stadiums across Britain and also transformed inadequate policing.
In cities across Europe and North America, amidst sweeping modernization and mechanization in the 1870s to the 1900s, art nouveau embraced all forms and designs, encompassed diverse styles and media, and remained influential well into the 20th century (2 ).
And the Army's sweeping $160 billion modernization plan seems likely to be scaled back.
Helen Couchman China popped onto Helen Couchman's radar around 2000, when, she said, she "first saw gorgeous little tidbits of something far away": glossy photos in British magazines of ice palaces in the northern city of Harbin and sweeping tales of the country's frenetic experiment with modernization.
Anger is sweeping America.
But even then, photographers like Andre Kertesz, Ilse Bing and Man Ray, finding themselves caught in the throes of sweeping change in the cultural capital of the Western world, were as preoccupied with what was being lost as with what might be gained by modernization.
