| So I think we in Congress can help these less wealthy areas of the country update and modernize their technology. |
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| We'll talk about U.S. military efforts to innovate, to modernize, and to stay ahead of any potential enemy. |
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| Although the strategy was flawed by its excessive voluntarism, it did force the party to modernize itself. |
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| He introduced many new reforms which attempted to modernize and liberalize the system rather than destroy it. |
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| It can also be fun to modernize an old clunker, particularly if you're the type who likes to tinker. |
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| Alexander II realized that to modernize mean that Russia needed to westernize, so in 1861 he emancipated the serfs from bondage. |
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| And I think this is an indication of the fact that we need to modernize the electricity grid. |
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| Ships were built both to modernize the navy and to catch the overflow of trade. |
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| Will they choose to further modernize this industrialized country by reforming laws and social norms unfair to women? |
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| After the rift was mended, as a mark of reconciliation it was decided to revive and modernize the festival. |
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| They lengthened the course by adding some tees and added subtle mounding to the fairways to modernize the course so it wouldn't appear so flat. |
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| Yemen is a least developed country striving to modernize and democratize its economic and political system. |
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| This will upgrade and modernize the regional seismic networks that locate earthquakes and determine magnitudes, replacing aging sensors with modern instrumentation. |
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| But there is peril ahead if we don't modernize the system, invest in energy the way we need to, because there will be other evidences of problems coming up. |
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| It is certainly desirable to modernize those dilapidated sanitary facilities and to make the bar a more pleasant spot. |
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| In spite of their professed desire to modernize, many Qing officials believed that the basic principles of Chinese statecraft were based on Confucian prescriptions. |
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| These measures have certainly enabled the sector to modernize and move smoothly from the small undertaking to the proper company. |
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| The elimination of tariffs for the machinery and goods needed to modernize and improve productivity is nothing but smoke and mirrors. |
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| This would also be the ideal time for the Liberals to keep their broken promises to modernize the Citizenship Act. |
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| The plan is to modernize the buildings and revamp the curriculum. |
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| The capper is that there used to be a program called CANtex that helped companies modernize. |
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| It is time to modernize our laws to criminalize child luring in all of its forms. |
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| The general purpose of the submitted plan is to modernize and to create profitability. |
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| The social development aspect is one prong in the CACP's work to modernize policing in Canada. |
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| He'd modernize moth-eaten data-collection methods and do more online and via community groups. |
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| Government entities must modernize, standardize and re-engineer their information systems. |
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| This is not at variance, in any way, with our desire to modernize our defense mechanisms. |
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| But to turn that key, we need to modernize the management of patient information. |
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| For their packaging needs, they are now approaching local companies who are forced to modernize their machinery to meet the demand. |
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| The purpose of the reform is to modernize the training of magistrates and to diversify recruitment methods. |
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| Long-term deferred contributions correspond to grants received for acquisition of electronic equipment and to modernize the recording studio. |
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| This will be critically important as we move forward with efforts to modernize programs and services to respond to changing needs of our clients. |
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| Egypt had always participated in efforts to develop and modernize international refugee law. |
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| With the onset of globalization of the world's markets, Brazil came under increasing pressure to modernize its archaic structures. |
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| Russia and China, the other acknowledged nuclear weapon states, also continue to maintain and modernize their nuclear forces. |
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| You've got to modernize the system in order to be a part of the system. |
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| At a time when the GOP is increasingly old and regionally isolated, it is up to young Republicans to modernize the party. |
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| Whether Ed meant to modernize the old house or refurbish it is unclear, but he dug a large pit under it and put up drywall in places drywall had little business being. |
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| In the end, I find it never fails to modernize even the most dramatic things. |
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| The only way out of this scenario is to reform and modernize the industry in the east of the country. |
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| The first attempts to modernize the process were made by Thomas Edison and scientists working with American inventor. |
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| Peter attempted to modernize and westernize the country militarily, administratively, economically, and culturally, often through the use of force. |
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| Since virtually all the wines are sold with ease on the undemanding local market, there has been little or no incentive to modernize or re-equip the wineries. |
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| It is time to modernize our society to match the rest of the free world. |
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| Meanwhile, you must minimize and modernize your current digs to optimize your existing quality of life. |
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| The conventional wisdom is that, in order to increase food supply to feed the hungry of the world, we need to redouble efforts to modernize agriculture. |
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| Once again, the need to modernize regulation should not serve as an excuse for centralization of structures, since nothing indicates that it would help resolve problems. |
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| While both Putin and Medvedev spoke of the need to modernize and diversify the economy, Medvedev made modernization the keynote of his presidency. |
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| Many western observers also overlooked how the Olympics were part of Putin's grand strategy to modernize Russia by locking it into international commitments that force it to produce results under global scrutiny. |
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| He also undertook programs to modernize agriculture. |
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| It was heralded as a bill that would modernize the fishery. |
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| There was a desire to modernize, but given the enormous costs that that entailed, prison crowding could not be perceptibly reduced for the time being. |
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| Other goals of the UCC were to modernize contract law and to allow for exceptions from the common law in contracts between merchants. |
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| This helped to modernize many aspects of society and to establish trading links between Denmark and the Netherlands. |
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| The government has rejected recommendations by a House of Commons committee to expand and modernize Canada's access to information and privacy laws because they are either too cumbersome, unnecessary or ill-considered. |
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| The project to develop and modernize the industrial area in the free port of Cadiz to provide business services also deserves note and will receive ERDF assistance worth PTA 1 164 million. |
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| Despite a comparative large military spending, it has been relatively slow to modernize its forces. |
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| Everyone will then be aware of the innovative and promising solutions discovered by young and beginning farmers, in order to further energize and modernize the sector. |
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| We went back to Plan A, which was to refurbish and modernize the existing buildings,'' Superintendent Ned McNabb said. |
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| Four years ago we began an aggressive legislative program to bolster our efforts to modernize and transform the way we operate. |
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| Significant efforts had been made in all regions to establish a medical care system for women in childbirth and to modernize existing maternity wards and build 28 perinatal centres. |
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| I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to modernize the old casa, and that even the garden was left in its lawless native luxuriance. |
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| The two Seaway Corporations on both sides of the border adopted the strategy some time ago of leveraging technology to modernize the system and regain our competitive advantage. |
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| The present CCP leaders believe that they can modernize China, transforming it into a great world power-indeed, the global superpower of the 21st century-through ever-greater integration into the world capitalist economy. |
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| Operational performance measures need to be developed to modernize the management of programs and activities and to more judiciously allocate resources. |
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| These amendments were designed to modernize and strengthen the military justice system, including simplification of the grievance process and the creation of an external review board. |
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| Ten years after substantial changes to school board governance, it is time to clarify and modernize the role of trustees to ensure that they have the supports they need to make sound decisions essential to student success. |
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| The Presidium has helped the beekeepers to modernize honey production so that they can obtain a pure, distinctive product of high quality, suitable for sale. |
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| With the passage of the Oceans Act in 1996, followed by the release of Canada's Oceans Strategy in July 2002, we established a new legislative and policy framework to modernize oceans management. |
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| Although new priorities and initiatives have been introduced from time to time to try to modernize the Force and make its governance and culture more suitable, many of these initiatives eventually floundered. |
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| The thrust to modernize for maximum effectiveness continues. |
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| Investments are being made to upgrade and modernize the retail chain. |
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| It was to begin replacing its aging national fleet vehicles and to modernize the way it does business, which is in all our best interests as we pay for it as users of the system. |
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| The solution's componentized approach helps banks of all sizes to rapidly modernize their operations, in a phased manner while minimizing risk. |
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| The aim of the two new regimes was to modernize their countries as fast as possible in order to catch up with Western countries and be able to compete with them. |
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| In its final report, the Panel made recommendations intended to bring the legislation into step with contemporary concepts of human rights and equality and to modernize Canada's process for resolving human rights disputes. |
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| You've made your decision: it's time to modernize your fleet. |
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| We need to modernize the access legislation to reflect these changes. |
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| Micro Focus Visual COBOL enables software developers to maintain and modernize COBOL systems alongside Microsoft. |
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| There have been innumerable rationalization programs in the fishing industry, in which governments have spent a lot of money to reduce the fleets and modernize the industry's processing sector. |
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| These efforts will be empowered by complementary initiatives within the IC to modernize processes such as ABI, OBP, and OSINT labs. |
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| In order to modernize the ticketing system put in place when the metro was launched, Greater rouen decided to launch a contactless ticketing system. |
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| The year 1992 was a turning point for the company, as management decided to modernize their operations with the purchase of a quick-freezing tunnel, leading to a substantial increase in production capacity. |
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| The city of Montréal has given the green light to plans to develop and modernize the Maison Radio-Canada building and site, in the block formed by René-Lévesque, Viger, Papineau and Wolfe. |
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| Also, the army plans to modernize its existing inventory of main battle tanks, and update its stock of small arms. |
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| Legislative bodies which codified these laws sought to modernize them without abandoning their foundations in traditional jurisprudence. |
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| Smallwood made major efforts to modernize the fishing industry, to create a new energy industry, and to attract factories. |
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| Is it because the seaway is in bad shape, because it would cost a lot to modernize it, because the government thinks it might be better to abandon it and let marine traffic go to the eastern United States? |
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| The aim was to modernize the empire, with prime emphasis on strengthening the military. |
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| The project's general objective is to mechanize and modernize all operations in the four major offices of exchange, train qualified staff and set up specialized call centres. |
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| I say again: my purpose in politics is to modernize Canada. |
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| In Russia, the feminist movement was part of a broader bourgeois-democratic current that opposed tsarism and wanted to modernize Russia as an industrial capitalist society. |
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| Consensus must be developed as to how First Nations modernize their fiscal regimes to be comparable to those of other governments while building on the strengths of their own culture. |
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| Project activities will include replacing the arena's ice surface area and installing a new scoreboard and public address system, as well as other improvements that will modernize the facility and increase its efficiency. |
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| This is the ideal time to modernize the electrical installation at the door: For example with a new surface-mounted system instead of flush-mounted devices, or a video intercom to replace a simple bell. |
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| Another area where the police need the support of the federal government is to pass legislation to modernize the laws around surveillance and wiretapping. |
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| In relevant remarks in August, Chinese nuclear officials in a meeting with Salehi promised to help Tehran modernize its heavy water reactor in the Central city of Arak. |
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| Throughout the Cold War it continued to modernize and enlarge its nuclear arsenal, but from 1992 on has been involved primarily in a program of Stockpile stewardship. |
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| The NCUA still must reform the share insurance fund, address systemic risk and modernize things that are outdated and flat out rinky-dink in this industry. |
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| The Napoleonic Code influenced developing countries outside Europe, especially in the Middle East, attempting to modernize their countries through legal reforms. |
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| Over the last centuries, proponents of secularization have claimed that as societies modernize, the role of religion in public and private life diminishes. |
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| It was decided to modernize the drainage Wells among others the construction of a new pumping station that in terms of capacity is large enough for all of Putten. |
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| Michelin also helped shape and modernize France's tourist infrastructure by providing signs and road markers as well as maps oriented toward automobile travel. |
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| The Educatorium project marks the first phase in a long term masterplan by OMA to modernize and urbanize the Utrecht University campus to the east of the city. |
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| Older companies will need to modernize quickly if they are to survive in today's economy. |
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| Based in Tunis, Clinique Taoufik was one of the first private healthcare institutions established as part of efforts to modernize Tunisia's healthcare system. |
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| In 2009, Joint Project 3024 was established to upgrade the range's instrumentation systems, and Project R7034 established to upgrade and modernize the required infrastructure. |
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| They sought to modernize education in light of contemporary scholarship. |
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| Egypt turned to Europe in their effort to modernize the country. |
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| Diaz installed Francisco Mena as governor of the state, who made a fortune through the concession of railway lines which were being built to modernize the country. |
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| It is possible then, to speculate that the ministry's agreement with ASELSAN for the upgrade of the WS3 is part of a US plan to modernize the nuclear bombs. |
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