The first world war was a godsend for a country that was undergoing breakneck modernisation.
The former communist behemoth is undergoing rapid modernisation, which will see it transformed into a sophisticated capitalist economy.
If we were to follow the Weberian line on this, then a highly Protestant area undergoing rapid modernisation would almost automatically experience a process of radical secularisation going hand-in-hand with industrialisation, a process which was only speeded up by the communist obsession with heavy industry.
The PHSO, the last resort for those complaining about unfair or poor service from the NHS in England, is undergoing a modernisation scheme and in October revealed it had investigated 2,199 cases in 2013/14 – six times more than the previous year.
The Gulf Co-operation Council states in the Middle East, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have undergone breathtaking modernisation.
As the legal services market undergoes dramatic modernisation consumers, forward-looking firms, potential students and regulators alike will be able to ensure that diversity improves.
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Today, the forensic science service in Estonia is equipped to standards comparable with the rest of Western Europe, having undergone extensive modernisation since independence in 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
