Sentence examples for were modernising from inspiring English sources

They were modernising poetry.

When the turrets were modernised their maximum elevation was increased to +30°, although the guns were loaded at +5°.

Between 1989 and 1993, 150 AMX-30Es were modernised to what would become known as the AMX-30EM2.

Now we are modernising ourselves".

China's military is modernising rapidly.

Many who run northern states are modernising technocrats.

Russia and the US are modernising their nuclear arsenals.

Modernising old-fashioned services Cheshire West and Chester council says it is "modernising old fashioned" services.

The minister in charge, Francis Maude, cuts a forlorn figure, even as he insists Whitehall is modernising.

BR has been modernising the signals system between Wimbledon and Waterloo for the last year.

If the Dhanda votes are modernising votes, then many of them should go to Bercow.