| The actual percussion lock has been modernized to include a coil mainspring and parts proven reliable and trouble-free. |
| More troubling is the decision to regularize Elizabeth's writings through modernized spelling and format. |
| As industry was modernized by automation and computerization, workers' skills became outdated or unwanted. |
| Russia's former naval facility of Baltiysk next to Kaliningrad is being converted and modernized to handle an initial 1m tons of cargo a year. |
| Arms and military equipment in service have at best been overhauled or modernized on a limited scale. |
| The play, of course, was an adaptation of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, cunningly modernized into an anti-capitalist satire. |
