While his initial interest was purely artistic, he told me that he soon recognized the ways in which modernization was affecting even the most rural parts of Slovenia.
Teresa was finishing dinner preparations in her 19th-century dream kitchen in which modernization has spared the majolica tiling on the walls and on the wood stove with its ovens, fireboxes and copper cauldrons.
Her platform, laid out in this volume as democracy in Pakistan and a vision of reconciliation between the Muslim world and the West, was an optimistic one in which globalization promotes tolerance, not resentment, and in which "modernization and extremism are contradictory and mutually exclusive".
Smithfield fine-tuned its approach in the 1990s in North Carolina, according to Robert P. Martin, executive director of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which evaluated modernization of farming in the United States.
I use a CGE-microsimulation model that captures various links through which agricultural modernization affects households.
Under the 2014 proposal, the Energy Department's nuclear weapons activities funding -- which includes modernization efforts for bomber-based and missile-based warheads -- would be increased roughly 7percentt, or around $500 million, above the current level of $7.227 billion for these activities.
The South China Sea tensions have been magnified by region-wide nervousness about China's naval modernization, which has included modernizing its civilian maritime administration ships.
There is more to keep in mind about Democracy Wall than the name of the unusually liberal Wei Jingsheng, who gained fame through crafting a powerful manifesto, "The Fifth Modernization," which said Deng's call for "Four Modernizations" (of agriculture, industry, education, science and technology, and education) left something out: democracy.
Meiji symbolized Japan's head-on encounter with modernization, which was often regarded, not always comfortably, as synonymous with Westernization.
Without blaming Medvedev personally, Pamfilova warned that the neglect of human rights could imperil Russia's modernization, which, in her view, was "unthinkable" without genuine democracy.
Still, there was the sentiment that it was better to allow Bulgaria and Romania to join to encourage the reformers rather than keep them out, which would delay modernization.
