Sentence examples for wave of modernization from inspiring English sources

These countries hope that we will sit out yet another wave of modernization, allowing them to catch up.

Elders continued to oversee the choice of spouses until a wave of modernization swept across the country in the early eighties.

This had been a goal of Russian leaders since Peter the Great unleashed the first great wave of modernization and Westernization.

He drew in closer for spare, elegant pictures of individual streetlamps, sidewalk urinals, and poster-covered kiosks, anticipating Atget's later images of the city giving way to yet another wave of modernization.

During the next wave of modernization in the '60s and '70s, there was talk of demolishing the great iron-and-glass food halls at Les Halles, the city's old, congested market area.

He was talking about the "opening up" or "deshelving," the most recent of many waves of modernization that have taken place at the store since 2001, when the family bought the building that the store occupies, at 828 Broadway.

Just as music, news, media, retail, travel, soon the academe, and so much more have been disrupted by the net and the next waves of modernization, so will government.

In the 1970s, as the government was taking control of Aramco, the American conglomerate that managed the country's oil fields, skyrocketing oil prices unleashed a wave of national modernization programs, including a large-scale effort to accommodate those performing the hajj.

Keeping up with the huge number of animals arriving each day proved impossible until a new wave of consolidation and modernization altered the meatpacking business in the post-Civil War era.

The America Forward Fund would be a private/public partnership based around infrastructure bonds to unleash a wave of infrastructure and modernization projects on a scale large enough to noticeably shrink the number of unemployed.

The first wave of technology and government was modernization — everything from new hardware and safer architecture to e-governance.