Sentence examples for world modernization from inspiring English sources

In unifying the world, modernization establishes uniform standards, albeit higher ones in many cases than previously prevailed.

That Palestinian donkey carts dot the landscape is a result of the larger issue of the Arab world and modernization.

In much of the Arab world, failed modernization by capitalist as well as socialist regimes has led to the resurrection of Islamist parties, with the militant Islamists waiting in the wings.

López devoted much of his two decades in power to opening the country slowly to the wider world and to modernization.

Next-generation digital government leadership is also being driven by companies like Barcelona-based Scytl, which is helping public sector organizations all over the world adopt election modernization, online voting and e-governance solutions in order to increase the transparency, security, accessibility and efficiency of elections and plebiscites.

In Japan, the phenomenon called shinhatsubai — the endless search for newness — has been an obsession since the country began a relentless pursuit of modernization after World War II.

Showing cramped rooms and narrow cobblestone streets inhabited by bearded rabbis, boys with long side locks and lots of doe-eyed children gazing melancholically into the camera, Vishniac's photographs picture a tradition-bound world that had escaped modernization and could have existed a hundred or more years before with little alteration.

Even with the speed of technological change and level of modernization the world has experienced in the last 20 years, hundreds of millions of small enterprises and over two billion people around the world still have little or no access to financing or investment capital.

These individuals live somewhere in the transition between the traditional world and the modern world, whether in a non-Western society that is modernizing, or in a Western society where they are undergoing the "instant modernization" of immigrants.

Scenarios offer real-world approaches for applying modernization tasks and subtasks, tools, and services to business and technical challenges.

1964: The organization sponsors a conference on industrial modernization at the World's Fair in Flushing Meadows.