Sentence examples for was modernized to from inspiring English sources

Public buildings, railroads, and schools were constructed, and Caracas was modernized to function as the centre of the new network of telegraph, ports, and roads.

In 1966, the church, which faces the historic gated Macdougal Alley, was modernized to the horror of preservationists, and a Romanesque facade with soaring arched windows became a wall of red brick with a single narrow window.

Reactivated once more in the 1980s as part of the 600-ship Navy program, New Jersey was modernized to carry missiles and recommissioned for service.

After a nearly two decade long struggle, the existing federal hate crimes statute that had covered race, religion and ethnicity was modernized to also include bias crimes motivated by gender, gender identity, sexual orientation and disability.

"What Mr. Trump has said consistently is that he thinks NATO needs to be modernized" to fight terrorist threats, Manafort told reporters at a morning briefing.

These were modernized to carry Tomahawk missiles, with New Jersey seeing action bombarding Lebanon in 1983 and 1984, while and fired their 16 inch (406 mm) guns at land targets and launched missiles during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.

After returning to Germany in 1905, she was modernized and used as a training ship in 1908, following the completion of the refit.

The city's infrastructure was modernized, and office towers rose.

The language was modernized, the large number of metres used by the fili was greatly reduced, and greater rhythmic control and ornamentation were required.

In 1978, at the request of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the 1779 language was modernized and a revised insuring clause was proposed.

Students learned how to program, got jobs at big companies and breathed a sigh of relief at just how quickly and efficiently technology was modernized and upgraded.