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- verb Present participle of
modernize .
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Examples
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But he did not take home what he really wanted: Chinese commitments to invest in modernizing Russian factories.
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Newark concludes that while Luciano played a pioneering role in modernizing the rackets during and after Prohibition, the jig was largely up after he went to jail on vice charges in 1936.
Eric Dezenhall: Waiting for Lucky Luciano Eric Dezenhall 2010
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I think BC and some reviewers may have misunderstood - Greg Clarke's Farewell to Alms is about the * escape* from the Malthusian trap in modernizing societies: firstly in England around 1800.
The Malthusian Zombie, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But he did not take home what he really wanted: Chinese commitments to invest in modernizing Russian factories.
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I think the libertarianism fits this because the individual is increasingly the social unit in modernizing societies.
The Mirage of Libertarian Populism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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What we are seeing is probably the usual situation in modernizing societies - all social systems growing in complexity.
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Newark concludes that while Luciano played a pioneering role in modernizing the rackets during and after Prohibition, the jig was largely up after he went to jail on vice charges in 1936.
Eric Dezenhall: Waiting for Lucky Luciano Eric Dezenhall 2010
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The U.S. already leads all the nuclear powers in modernizing its nuclear arsenals.
Shan Cretin: A Nuclear-Free World Awaits Action by Obama, Senate Shan Cretin 2010
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Newark concludes that while Luciano played a pioneering role in modernizing the rackets during and after Prohibition, the jig was largely up after he went to jail on vice charges in 1936.
Eric Dezenhall: Waiting for Lucky Luciano Eric Dezenhall 2010
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The U.S. already leads all the nuclear powers in modernizing its nuclear arsenals.
Shan Cretin: A Nuclear-Free World Awaits Action by Obama, Senate Shan Cretin 2010
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