“Are they wishfully trying to modernize the religion into something it isn't?”

“The company must modernize or lose its competitive edge.”

“Alexander II realized that to modernize mean that Russia needed to westernize, so in 1861 he emancipated the serfs from bondage.”

“Its ham-fisted attempts to modernise the service plunged the post office network into crisis.”

“This treaty gave China money and technical assistance to modernise her industry.”

“In more recent times, the Danes, driven by Scandinavian-style liberalism, sought to modernise their colonies.”

“The east wing expands convocational space for cultural events within the museum and increases and modernizes collection storage facilities.”

“China Airlines, majority owned by a government-run foundation, has been mulling purchasing planes from Airbus as it modernizes its fleet of aging aircraft.”

“He freely modernizes punctuation, which is fine, but is generous in the use of em dashes, so that in his letters he sounds like a breathless Jane Austen heroine.”

“Arms and military equipment in service have at best been overhauled or modernized on a limited scale.”

“The actual percussion lock has been modernized to include a coil mainspring and parts proven reliable and trouble-free.”

“The play, of course, was an adaptation of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, cunningly modernized into an anti-capitalist satire.”

“He believed in modernizing socialism, abandoned Marxist rhetoric, and replaced it by a responsible managerial attitude to the economy.”

“And by modernizing our industrial base, it will save millions of jobs in manufacturing that are now at risk to foreign competition.”

“It was clear to him that pure, unmodernized Jujutsu did not comport with the modernizing spirit of the period after the Meiji Restoration.”