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Example sentences for: modernizing

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Under a 99-year lease, the US acquired about one-tenth of the land area of Bermuda for the development of naval and air bases, modernizing the defenses of Britain’s “Gibraltar of the West.”
There is one religious site of special note, the Temple of Mystery (Xuanmiaoguan), in the heart of a modernizing downtown shopping area.
An editorial darkly warns that China is modernizing and expanding its military in order to displace America as Asia's dominant power.
Evidence for the report's conclusions included industry responses to the cotton dust standard, with which industry complied by modernizing equipment and processes at a substantially reduced cost (compared to those projected for traditional control approaches) and with tremendous production benefits, and the formaldehyde standard, where industry complied not by utilizing the OSHA-recommended ventilation and enclosure strategy but with a source reduction strategy (low-formaldehyde resins) that had been available at the time of the rulemaking.
He admired western military tactics and set about modernizing the army and navy.