Sentence examples for were a modernizing force from inspiring English sources

Upon their return they took important positions and were a modernizing force in society.

Before he headed the School of Public Health, he was a modernizing force as chief of medicine at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital.

The new measures and appointments are intended to help the government regain its credentials as a modernizing force, political analysts said.

While liberals have seen the Second Vatican Council as a modernizing force, conservatives like Benedict argue — as did the document released Tuesday — that it represented not change but continuity.

The sale from his collection includes some early Christian Dior dresses, so evocative of postwar movie stars; and outfits from the days when a young Yves Saint Laurent took over at Dior — and then developed into a modernizing force.

Kampala is a modernizing city, and the wealthier neighborhoods are full of cafés, shopping malls, and lush foliage.

The secretary and the senior administration officials who accompanied her hope that Dr. Assad will be a modernizing reformer.

Indeed, when the good colonel led the Libyan coup in 1969, many right-thinking Westerners thought him to be a modernizing democrat".

"I told my friends, even though all of them had voted for Vladimir Putin and believed he was a modernizing reformer, that we were going backward.

While the military has been the major modernizing force in creating a pro-Western secular republic out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire during the last century, its hard-line interpretation of secularism and its role in politics seem outdated to many Turks today.

MODERNIZING KING THE MOST VULNERABLE The present Saudi king, Abdullah, paradoxically is all the more vulnerable precisely because he has been a modernizer.