modernization

Examples of modernizing

modernizing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Women who work in the non-traditional sector are expected to be more exposed to modernizing influences, including the family planning programme.
I would also argue that little is gained from modernizing the key signatures.
In the modernizing (industrializing) stage of human development, socioeconomic developments enable people to secure survival and pursue achievement and entitlement.
This result seems to be related to the exposure of women who work in the non-agricultural sector to modernizing influences, including the family planning programme.
While the terms 'modern' and 'modernizing' are used for the sake of brevity, these scores do not represent modern attitudes in the usual sense.
The analysis of discourse is invaluable in understanding the construction of national identity by a modernizing elite.
The main question in these studies was whether the military plays a role of modernizing agent.
This problem notwithstanding, the book is rich in perspectives and gives insightful overviews of the typical tensions characteristic of modernizing societies.
By focusing attention on government and parliament, it highlighted the bankruptcy of the regime and demonstrated their own modernizing objectives.
The explanation is not completely clear, but probably relates to economics, education and a generally modernizing outlook.
His discussion of different developmental periods is divided between traditional and modernizing, essentially urban patterns, the latter in tension with the former.
In each of those cases, the modernizing projects depended on strong internal control and close collaboration with foreign capital.
The wind pressure had been a problem too so the apparatus needed modernizing.
The cost of modernizing the environmental infrastructure is daunting for these countries, many of which are still struggling through the transition to market economies.
Both periods were traumatic in their different ways, but in terms of modernizing impact the first was more significant.
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