Sentence examples for trained and modernized from inspiring English sources

Last September, President Xi Jinping announced that he would cut 300,000 members of the PLA, an ambitious attempt to transition China's army of 2.3 million from traditional land forces to smaller naval and aerial forces that are highly trained and modernized.

Following Syria's secession, Nasser grew concerned with Amer's inability to train and modernize the army, and with the state within a state Amer had created in the military command and intelligence apparatus.

"He has actually trained himself and modernized himself on his own" was his famous reaction, in a letter to the editor of Poetry, Harriet Monroe.

"[Eliot] has actually trained himself AND modernized himself ON HIS OWN", Pound wrote to Monroe in October 1914.

Major Harrison, who as the chief of the embassy's office of defense cooperation was responsible for helping American efforts to train, equip and modernize Albania's military, said that his suggestion to bar the reporter from visiting the Albania base was rejected.

Qaboos, who had been trained in Britain at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, quickly reversed his father's policy of isolation and began to develop and modernize Oman.

"It needs to be reformed and modernized".

Hotel and restaurant interiors have been spruced up and modernized.

Everything is better and modernized now.

Mohammed's father, Sheikh Rashid, dredged and modernized the port.

In 1930 the ship was refurbished and modernized.