At a third stage in the modernization process are such countries as India, Brazil, the Philippines, and Taiwan, which are ready and committed to move into the stage of self-sustaining growth.

The Government will help in transferring companies and workers into new lines, where modernization doesn't seem feasible.

Paraguay was occupied by its enemies in 1870 ; the countryside was in virtual ruin, the labor force was decimated, peasants were pushed into the environs of Asunción from the east and south, and the modernization of the preceding three decades was undone.

His only son to survive into adulthood Alexei, who did not support Peter's modernization of Russia, had previously been arrested and died in prison shortly thereafter.

These were merged into the Democratic Party in the South, but they continued to promote modernization policies such as large-scale railroad construction and the founding of public schools.

The Performance Improvement Program variant, K55A1, is a complete domestic overhaul of the K55 which is further augmented by Samsung Thales with modern digital ballistic computers, multifunctional data display and controllers, GPS navigation and target acquisition system, wireless datalink equipment, and upgraded fire control storage battery and power supply unit, to closely match the US military's modernization of the Paladin into next-generation standard.

This decade also marked the return of Catholic authors ( Josef Florian, Jakub Deml, Jaroslav Durych, Josef Váchal ) and the first entrance of the avant-garde into Czech literature, seeking to document the rapid changes in society and modernization.

Vietnam is putting considerable effort into modernization and expansion of its telecommunication system, but its performance continues to lag behind that of its more modern neighbors.

In his seminal book Peasants into Frenchmen: the Modernization of Rural France, 1880 – 1914 ( 1976 ), historian Eugen Weber traced the modernization of French villages and argued that rural France went from backward and isolated to modern and possessing a sense of French nationhood during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

While urban migration, development projects, and modernization are bringing more Gambians into contact with Western habits and values, the traditional emphasis on the extended family, as well as indigenous forms of dress and celebration, remain integral parts of everyday life.

He kept up a steady program of modernization, which over a period of years transformed it into one of the most modern hotels far and wide.

The eventual modernization of the " Old Mine Road " into US 209 brought continued vacationers to " the mountains ," even as the railroad closed in the 1950s.

After the Mexican Revolution in 1917, idealization of the indigenous and the traditional symbolized attempts to reach into the past and retrieve what had been lost in the race toward modernization.

The mission traveled the world in order to renegotiate the unequal treaties with the United States and European countries that Japan had been forced into during the Tokugawa shogunate, and to gather information on western social systems, in order to effect the modernization of Japan.

The move towards modernization rested on one main issue, transforming the Soviet Union into a modern industrialized society, but to do so the Soviet Union had to reshape its preexisting structures, namely its agricultural system and the class structure that surrounded it.

Per Borten is credited for leading the modernization of what was then named Bondepartiet ( the Agrarian Party ) into today's Centre Party.

It has, however, diversified into different styles due to regions, instruments and modernization.

The conception of modernization in the epoch of Reza Shah has to be still researched and analyzed, because it was the locus of the process of insertion of Iranian society into the free world with Iran no longer a third world country where mostly the law hardly existed.

In 1928 the republic was nominally unified under the Kuomintang ( KMT )--- aka the Chinese Nationalist Party — after the Northern Expedition, and was in the early stages of industrialization and modernization when it was caught in the conflicts among the Kuomintang government, the Communist Party of China which was converted into a nationalist party, local warlords and Japan.

The history of the United States Navy divides into two major periods: the " Old Navy ", a small but respected force of sailing ships that was also notable for innovation in the use of ironclads during the American Civil War, and the " New Navy ", the result of a modernization effort that began in the 1880s made it the largest in the world by the 1920s.

After an initial success, Serbia and especially Greece realized the true purpose of IMRO and consequently a vicious guerilla war ( see Macedonian Struggle ) broke out between Bulgarian-and Greek-backed groups within Macedonia, ending when the Young Turks movement, with its initially democratic and modernization agenda, came into power in the Ottoman Empire.

In this context, ecological modernization promotes ' cradle to cradle ' manufacturing ( Braungart and McDonough, 2002 ), contrasted against the usual ' cradle to grave ' forms of manufacturing-where waste is not re-integrated back into the production process.

Under ecological modernization, the state is seen in a variety of roles and capacities: as the enabler for markets that help produce the technological advances via competition ; as the regulatory ( see regulation ) medium through which corporations are forced to ' take back ' their various wastes and re-integrate them in some manner into the production of new goods and services ( e. g. the way that car corporations in Germany are required to accept back cars they manufactured once those vehicles have reached the end of their product lifespan ); and in some cases as an institution that is incapable of addressing critical local, national, and global environmental problems.

In his hometown-the castle town Hagi in western Japan-he is still remembered as a mystical and energetic hero, who put all his efforts into opening the way to modernization, westernization and reforms, not only in military matters but in political and social matters as well.

An aggressive program of branch modernization and expansion extended TD's presence in its traditional markets and took it into new territory in the Maritime provinces and on the natural resource frontier.

Many historians trace modern Ethiopian foreign policy to the reign of Emperor Tewodros II, whose primary concerns were the security of Ethiopia's traditional borders, obtaining technology from Europe ( or modernization ), and to a lesser degree Ethiopian rights to the monastery of Dar-es-Sultan in the city of Jerusalem.

As Chief of Staff, Marshall organized the largest military expansion in U. S. history, inheriting an outmoded, poorly equipped army of 189, 000 men and, partly drawing from his experience teaching and developing techniques of modern warfare as an instructor at the Army War College, coordinated the large-scale expansion and modernization of the U. S. Army.

Regarding rail transport, there is a significant disparity between the Abruzzo coast – modern art-and that of inland areas, very poor in terms of modernity and quality of service and waiting decades of development interventions and modernization ( see in particular the Rome-Pescara line ).

The Norwegian Navy is undergoing a major modernization project to reinforce its position as a modern and competent fleet.

The government initially was involved in economic modernization, providing a number of " model factories " to facilitate the transition to the modern period.

The study of economic development by social scientists encompasses theories of industrial / economic modernization causes, the historical phases or waves of economic development, and the organizational aspects of enterprise development in modern societies.

The government was initially involved in economic modernization, providing a number of " model factories " to facilitate the transition to the modern period.

But eventually, the foreign firms were rebuilt with modern techniques such as continuous casting, while profitable U. S. companies resisted modernization.

Other revisions included modernization of several words and phrases, substitution of inclusive language where appropriate, correction of spelling and typographical errors, alteration of punctuation to conform to modern standards, and emendation of a few historical inaccuracies.

This was in direct opposition to the prevailing industrialization and modernization which was moving many aspects of the culture's aesthetics away from the hand-made artisan-created styles of the past and toward a mass-produced sleek modern vision of the future.

The construction of the arsenal was the central point of a global modern infrastructure, that was to prove an important first step for the modernization of Japan's industry.

Before the First Sino Japanese War, China engaged in technological modernization only, buying modern weapons, ships, artillery, and building modern arsenals to produce these weapons, and only giving their soldiers modern weapons without institutional reform, and while refusing to reform the government or civil society according to western standards, unlike Japan, who adopted western style government with a Parliament and completely reoganized the army on western lines.

In a broader sense, early modern architecture began at the turn of the 20th century with efforts to reconcile the principles underlying architectural design with rapid technological advancement and the modernization of society.

In Mainland China, People's Square is a common designation for the central town square of modern Chinese cities, established as part of urban modernization within the last few decades.

According to most scholar the history of modern Egypt spans since the emergence of Muhammad Ali's rule in early 19th century and his launching of Egypt's modernization project that involved building a new army and suggesting a new map for Egypt.

The airline, which is just completing its fleet modernization, will also need to catch up with modern marketing methods, revamp its in-flight service and become more profit conscious.

In 1938, Greece ordered four modern Greyhound class destroyers in English shipyards, making a serious step towards modernization.

Aikido and judo are examples of gendai budō that were founded in the modern era, while iaidō represents the modernization of a practice that has existed for centuries.