(1) Romania badly needs aid to modernise its outmoded industries.

(2) Massive investment is needed to modernise the country's telephone network.

(3) It will take many years to modernise these antiquated industries.

(4) The government has announced an ambitious programme to modernise the railway network.

(5) Industries unable to modernise have been left to wither.

(6) They wanted to modernise the programme, sex it up.

(7) They decided not to modernise the Victorian decor.

(8) They attempted in vain to modernise these antiquated industries.

(9) They decided not to modernise the Victorian de & 1 & cor.

(10) We have no option but to modernise.

(11) They call for horseracing bosses to modernise procedures at racecourses.

(12) Public investment will modernise services[sentencedict.com], help business and industry and stimulate private investment.

(13) We borrowed one sum to modernise our premises, which we are paying back long-term.

(14) The report urges countries to repair and modernise irrigation systems and use better drip - fed farming.

(15) We must also fundamentally reform and modernise our regulatory architecture and authorities.

(16) There is a pressing need to modernise our electoral system.

(17) But Hogg counters: "Our aim is to modernise and globalise traditional Chinese medicine."

(18) If it works[sentencedict.com], it would help to modernise the entire economy.

(19) The government says its plans will modernise the NHS, improve services and reinvest savings in front line care.

(20) China has pledged to help modernise the Mozambican agricultural sector and aims to increase rice production five-fold, from 100, 000 to 500, 000 tonnes a year.

(21) Yuan certainly saw the need to modernise China and centralise power after the dislocation that had followed the rising in October 1911.

(22) The company is caught in a double bind.If it doesn't modernise it won't make money, but if it does modernise they'll have to make people redundant because they won't need them any more.

(23) So will the investment in capital goods and engineering skills needed to modernise outmoded factories.

(24) We are helping Shanghai as much as possible to modernise the market, Tsang said.

(25) The knee - jerk assumption of he argues, is that as countries modernise they take on western characteristics.

(26) Speaking in a recorded TV address, Mr Berlusconi said he would support a technocrat government and redouble his own efforts in parliament to modernise Italy.

(27) Roosevelt's New Deal is the network of dams that stud the Tennessee River valley, built to provide work and to modernise a backward corner of America during the Great Depression.

(28) The first option has its logic: why let a repressive, demeaning system modernise itself slowly?

(29) When this newspaper first denounced Mr Berlusconi, many Italian businesspeople replied that only his roguish, entrepreneurial chutzpah offered any chance to modernise the economy.

(30) Over the next two decades appetite for metals is likely to double as China and India urbanise and modernise.