But it makes those modernising policies more necessary than ever.
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But, overwhelmingly, people are in support of modernising the law.
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To Berger, that made this sort of Protestantism a modernising force.
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Everyone talks of modernising shipbuilding by extensive use of digital technology.
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Other regional navies are also modernising—above all by buying submarines.
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"They see a country that is modernising, being powerful," he says.
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Yet that is changing, thanks to the modernising touch of Larry Ellison.
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Now he must choose between modernising the country or becoming more dictatorial.
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That is not the only kind of power distribution that needs modernising.
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Both share visions of modernising their nations and brook little political dissent.
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By modernising, Japan became the only big country in Asia to safeguard its independence.
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And, all the while, China's strategy for modernising its economy is adding further strain.
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The modernising forces that freed Jews from old impediments also provoked unease and anger.
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Weaning the country off oil and modernising and diversifying the economy are ambitious goals.
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Stephen Crabb, for all his modernising overtures, takes a similar stance to Ms May.
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It urged them to issue special bonds for big projects such as modernising power grids.
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Such checks on power are El Salvador's best hope for cleaning up government and modernising politics.
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And we plan to take this process of opening up and modernising the party much further.
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Modernising the creaking power system, which is subject to frequent blackouts, has been a top priority.
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Modernising the sales tax would be sensible, as would taking a second look at property levies.
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The hope is that modernising the market's technological architecture can cut costs and improve its efficiency.
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In the same period, it plans to invest around 300 million euros in modernising the division.
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So far, Mr Macron has largely avoided big street protests as he has set about modernising France.
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In China, a modernising population is looking for a moral framework to go with its new mobility.
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Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's failed constitutional reforms in last year's referendum were ostensibly about modernising Italy.
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Commodity-producing regions have struggled to adapt to a modernising economy, as has the rust-belt north-east.
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This has meant going online, being role models in the community, and possibly modernising the more archaic texts.
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However, it has been slow to inject new capital into its banks and hesitant about modernising their operations.
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How much were you pushing at an open door when you brought your modernising credo to the party?
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However, European firms have come a long way in modernising their views on emissions, partly influenced by the ETS.
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It is now more common in many countries, especially fast-modernising ones where women are becoming economically self-sufficient.
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The rapidly changing skylines of Ethiopia's modernising cities notwithstanding, about 80% of its population still live off the land.
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"I want China to get closer to Central Asia," says Djoomart Otorbaev, a modernising recent prime minister of Kyrgyzstan.
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MBS should share some power with modernising princes, while checking the excesses of religious reactionaries and the sprawling royal family.
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The investment will be spent on the firm's rural coverage acceleration programme, replacing and modernising base stations and digital services.
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Upgrading South Africa's antiquated railway network, modernising Durban port and reforming power firm Eskom would also help bring in Chinese money.
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For years the government concentrated on modernising what it classified as nine traditional industries such as shipbuilding, steelmaking and petrochemical production.
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She made the case for Europol to become a platform for modernising EU police forces by developing digital tools and technology.
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But now on the cusp of a general election, the island has seen a surge of interest in modernising the law.
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When Russia expanded into the east, subjugating the states of Central Asia, it saw itself doing so as a modernising, European power.
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That, he says, involves "modernising" the PLA by 2035 and making it "world-class"—in other words, America-beating—by mid-century.
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Brian Hunt, the head of IFIAR, agrees that audits need modernising so that they stay relevant to investors and help align expectations.
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The president has taken big steps towards modernising Mexico, including opening energy and telecoms to competition and raising standards for state schools.
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With a whopping 13 games to be played, France has been forced to spend €1.6bn on building, renovating and modernising stadiums alone.
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Months of political infighting held up IMF-backed legislative changes aimed at limiting the power of vested interests and modernising the economy.
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It was an embarrassing moment for the law enforcement official who had been widely praised for his integrity and for modernising his office.
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Chinese strategists consider the country's rapidly modernising armed forces as essential for protecting the sea lanes on which its prosperity and security depend.
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But Chinese efforts are only the most notable of many modernising impulses that are beginning to mesh Eurasia into something resembling a whole.
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Besides, if utilities are unable to sell enough electricity to cover their costs then they cannot invest in maintaining or modernising their grids.
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Private firms have been spending almost as much each year on modernising American locomotives and tracks as the federal government has on roads.
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The retailer said in May that it was modernising rapidly to survive - a theme Norman returned to on Tuesday with a stark warning.
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"Together, we are modernising the footwear industry," Chris Collier, Flex chief financial officer, said earlier this year about the company's relationship with Nike.
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The cyclical business of selling and installing new lifts is complemented by a steady stream of income from maintaining and modernising existing lifts.
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I believed the Conservatives were too divided and that the work of modernising the party was too incomplete for them to win a majority.
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In India Narendra Modi remains outward-looking and modernising, but he has ties to radical ethnic-nationalist Hindu groups that preach chauvinism and intolerance.
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JANE LONGLawrence Livermore Laboratory (ret.)Oakland, CaliforniaARMOND COHENClean Air Task ForceBoston In New York state we are modernising the regulatory regime and electric grid.
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He paints himself as a modernising force, the man who rescued Egypt from an illiberal regime and set out to fix its stagnant economy.
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Russia, China and America are committed to modernising their nuclear arsenals, which means they will exist until at least the end of this century.
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In response the city's administration has implemented a range of cost-rationalisation measures such as organising collective tenders for utilities and modernising public buildings.
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Now authorities are modernising the media crackdown into a bastion of 21st century authoritarianism, with a string of new measures for Chinese online media.
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Algeria has been modernising its five refineries and plans to build new ones with the aim of meeting domestic demand and exporting the surplus.
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The country has been modernising its military in recent years through the purchase of a fleet of new submarines and F-35 fighter jets.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and Syria have signed an agreement on expanding and modernising Russia's Tartus naval base in Syria, a Russian government document showed.
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It is a strong and positive signal and an essential step to achieving our common objective of modernising the copyright rules in the European Union.
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Muhammad bin Salman, the modernising crown prince, has defied clerics by allowing cinemas, open-air pop concerts and even female drivers in his puritanical kingdom.
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Both India and Vietnam are also modernising their militaries in the face of Beijing's growing assertiveness, having separately fought wars with China in past decades.
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However, similar falsehoods did not prevent Ridwan Kamil, the modernising mayor of Bandung, from winning the governorship of West Java, a province of 47m people.
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Moscow, its major patron through the Cold War, remains the key supplier to the modernising Vietnamese military, and India and Israel are increasingly important suppliers.
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Compared with the asset-strippers who swept through Croatia at that time, he was seen as a positive force, bent on modernising the retail business.
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But since then, Ukraine's international supporters have become increasingly irked by what they see as Kiev's patchy progress in tackling corruption and modernising the economy.
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Planemaking chief Fabrice Bregier called the deal "a significant first step" in modernising Iranian aviation, adding it included training, airport operations and air traffic management.
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The first cracks appeared in 13 when a rapidly modernising China introduced new pension schemes and put an end to permanent tenure at state firms.
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Under the rubric of modernising her Christian Democrats, she poached some leftist policies, such as eliminating the draft, scrapping nuclear power and enacting a minimum wage.
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Since Chinese President Xi Jinping took office in late 2012, he has made strengthening and modernising the military a very key part of his policy platform.
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Hindu hardliners do not feel he has sufficiently advanced their cause while others feel his promise of modernising India to bring jobs has failed (see article).
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To limit the growth of more rigid expenditure, the city's authorities are closely monitoring spending on employment, organising collective tenders for utilities and modernising public buildings.
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The government aims to drive its planned breakthrough via a range of initiatives, from mobilising Islamic charitable funds to modernising investments made by Indonesia's pilgrims' fund.
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They include modernising the country's roads, rails, pipelines and broadband networks, tackling the rising costs of prescription drugs, and tightening privacy protections for social-media-company customers.
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The corridor agreement signed by Mongolia, China and Russia in June committed the countries to upgrading regional rail transport by modernising existing capacity and building new routes.
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The carmaker said it spent 660 million euros modernising the 60-year-old factory, VW's first plant outside Germany, where the Virtus and Polo will be assembled.
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That may be news to Iran Air's own management, who say they want to "maintain our current schedules" for three years while focusing on modernising their systems.
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"Al Dahra will look at acquiring additional farming land in Romania and will invest in modernising the existing portfolio of agricultural machinery and technology," Al Dahra said.
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East Penn plans to launch a smaller scale version in the fourth quarter and is commercialising the technology in the United States, which is modernising its power grid.
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Now the country's road transport companies are modernising fleets to ensure that when their industry goes autonomous, as early as the end of the decade, they are ready.
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But the Swedish lender, which has retained a large network of independent branch offices, has faced criticism over mounting costs for modernising IT systems and its overseas expansion.
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Manfred Güllner, head of the Forsa polling agency, reckons the party has focused too much on social justice and should have presented a broader programme for modernising Germany.
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But it is plain that their centripetal movement carries with it some of the modernising vim that, staying put, might propel those countries faster in the same direction.
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FirstGroup invested in expanding and modernising the Greyhound fleet and terminals as well as marketing, but this has not proved enough to give it the returns shareholders expect.
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Instead there is a widespread appreciation of the £300m or so that Tata has spent on modernising the plant, including the building of Britain's most modern blast furnace.
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More from the Financial Times:Cyril Ramaphosa outlines blueprint to revive South Africa economySenegal hopes to reap rewards of modernising agricultureReputation for stability lures new foreign investors to Senegal
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Macron wished Russia and its people success in modernising the country, while Erdogan spoke with Putin about joint efforts by Moscow and Ankara to resolve the Syria crisis.
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That crash led to the creation of a new body, which became the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in charge of running and modernising the world's biggest air-transport system.
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It is still liberal on lifestyle issues and favours modernising economic reforms, but these proposals are "harder to understand" in a "polarised scenario", says Toni Roldán, a Ciudadanos legislator.
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This has included funding for not only Crossrail (now named the Elizabeth line) but the extensive work modernising tube services and stations as well as transforming the road network.
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"With our menu this year, we're taking old ideas and modernising them a little," explains chef Patrick Leano of Osteria, the modern Italian restaurant at London's Barbican arts centre.
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He has also proposed more spending on modernising Europe's economy through science, research and digital innovation, and increases for border management following the continent's migration crisis of 2015-16.
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He won a lot credit of for this, as well as for modernising Parliament (running outreach schemes and even turning a Commons bar into a nursery to support working parents).
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Samuel Huntington, an American political scientist, noted in 1968 that "the true revolutionary class" in modernising societies was the middle class, but that it became more conservative as it grew.
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The advent of organised retail and e-commerce began modernising warehouses in India a decade ago, but most firms still rely on musty, dilapidated "godowns", as storehouses are known colloquially.
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Under Vladimir Putin, Russia is fast modernising its armed forces, building a hard-hitting, flexible military that can be deployed at short notice into what it calls its "near abroad".
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron spoke by telephone to President Vladimir Putin on Monday, and wished Russia and its people success in modernising the country after Sunday's election victory.
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Its future, once pegged to iron ore and steel, is now likely to hinge on its success in grabbing export markets for agriculture, education and pharmaceuticals in a rapidly modernising Asia.
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Vonovia rejected claims that almost two-fifths of rental income went to shareholders, saying all surpluses from German rental income are invested into modernising its existing properties or building new ones.
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And in two of the big ones, the incumbents have been remarkably successful at holding fast to the historical roots from which they derive their legitimacy while cautiously modernising the institution.
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The first two haven't materialised and may never do so, while the once-mooted exit from Nafta has turned into a renegotiation aimed at "modernising" the pact with Canada and Mexico.
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Russia and America are modernising their nuclear forces at huge expense and China is enlarging its nuclear arsenal, so nuclear weapons may be around until at least the end of the century.
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Prince Mohammed, 32, and President Emmanuel Macron both paint themselves as champions of their nations' plugged-in youths with a modernising message that has resonated strongly with younger Saudis and French citizens.
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They included a former secretary of state on the modernising wing of the Labour Party, a senior Liberal Democrat in the then-coalition government and a prominent voice on the Conservative left.
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Huawei, with which Telenor has collaborated for more than a decade on 4G, will continue to play a role in modernising its infrastructure, Hanne Knudsen, Telenor vice president for communications, told Reuters.
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In modernising Britain, where they were continually moved on by the police, they relied for their livelihood on roadside, riverbank or passing woods: itinerant production from whatever grew wherever they chanced to be.
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All have close links with France and Germany; all can marshal coalitions of like-minded states in their parts of Europe: all have modernising leaders with experiences of arduous coalition-building at home.
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State media announced that the plenum would consider "important issues concerning how to uphold and improve the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and make progress in modernising the country's governance system and capacity".
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The position of Saudi women gradually improved under late King Abdullah and since King Salman took over in 2015, the kingdom has been opening more areas for women through the government's modernising reforms.
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They want to see more focus on border management following Europe's migrant crisis of 2015-16, tackling climate change, beefing up security and modernising the bloc's economy through investment in research and digitalisation.
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"This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to invest in New Zealand — modernising our infrastructure, preparing for climate change and help growing the economy," Ardern said in a statement announcing the infrastructure investment.
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"This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to invest in New Zealand -- modernising our infrastructure, preparing for climate change and help growing the economy," Ardern said in a statement announcing the infrastructure investment.
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In April, the EBRD, whose loans help Naftogaz buy gas from Europe in winter, warned that the resignation of the independent board would threaten progress made towards modernising the company and undermine investor confidence.
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He acknowledges that these last two movements amounted to a form of "counter-enlightenment", reinstating theocracy, but he insists that even the mullahs' Iran has some modernising features: they educated an unprecedented number of girls.
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Whether the 250-year-old son of King Salman will achieve his goal of modernising the kingdom's economy is the subject of animated debate on social media, in office buildings and at coffee shops here.
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In December, she attacked the official FN line and modernising party deputy Florian Philippot, reaffirming her anti-abortion credentials and criticising Philippot's support for a state-sponsored anti-AIDS advertising campaign that depicted gay couples.
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The elections of 2015 and 2017 brought in 103 new Tory MPs, making up a third of the party in the Commons; they reflect Mr Cameron's modernising attempt to welcome women, ethnic minorities and social liberals.
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Prince Mohammed is making an official visit to London to promote Saudi Arabia as a tolerant, modernising economy and build a wider new trade and investment relationship with Britain - a long-term defence and security ally.
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Alexei Kudrin, one of Mr Putin's most senior economic advisers, argues that modernising the bureaucracy, reforming the courts, rolling back the state's role in the economy, and radically overhauling education and the labour market are indispensable.
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The party's modernising push also comes as a significant number of educated Chinese millennials, faced with a tough job market and high housing costs in big cities, have grown disillusioned about their career and life prospects.
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Dmitriev said Italian pasta maker Barilla was interested in expanding its business in Russia, with a deal expected in the third quarter, while tire manufacturer Pirelli wanted to continue modernising and expanding its plant in Voronezh.
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Outlays on defence have increased by almost 15% in less than a decade, spurred on by neighbouring China modernising its military and North Korea developing nuclear weapons and missiles that could deliver them anywhere in Japan.
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In implementing his modernising agenda, Prince Muhammad has downgraded his family's 250-year-old alliance with the Wahhabist clergy, who enforced a puritanical version of Islam and seemed to rule Saudi Arabia alongside the House of Saud.
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Instead it was local elites who, after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when Japan was rapidly modernising by imitating Western institutions and mores, took it upon themselves to reverse the order of their names for foreign consumption.
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In the intervening years, Corel has been focused on modernising its offerings, bringing in e-commerce, direct downloads, subscriptions and acquisitions to bring the company's products and wider business closer to how consumers and workers use computers today.
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In the past decade both have invested heavily in modernising their armed forces in ways that exploit Western political and technical vulnerabilities and thwart America's ability to project power in what they see as their spheres of influence.
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The nuclear-weapon states pay lip service to the incremental nuclear disarmament the treaty asks of them while at the same time modernising their forces to face the next 50 years; this makes the nuke-nots ever angrier.
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Chen Jin, vice-chairman of the Party Literature Research Office, began by explaining that the recent revision of the constitution—the one that eliminated presidential term limits—was a vital step towards modernising the governance system of China.
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But dissatisfaction grew with an establishment widely seen as unaccountable, raising pressure for a new generation to take over capable of modernising the oil-dependent state and giving hope to a young population impatient for a better life.
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As the world's biggest fighting force with more than 2 million troops, modernising has been a top priority for China's military over the past two decades, including the development of a blue-water navy that can operate globally.
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The deeply conservative Muslim kingdom is ending a nearly 13-year ban on commercial cinemas, which were shuttered in the early 1980s under pressure from Islamists but are returning through a modernising drive by the reform-minded crown prince.
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Steven Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, has proposed modernising the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), an anti-discrimination law whose requirements are tied largely to the location of branches—hard to square with a world of digital banking—but nothing has changed yet.
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Distrustful of the competence of cabinet colleagues, unwilling to resolve the dysfunctional relationship with Gordon Brown and sceptical of the "modernising" commitment of senior civil servants, his approach to the exercise of power became destructive of the very fabric of government.
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Distrustful of the competence of cabinet colleagues, unwilling to resolve the destructive relationship with Gordon Brown and sceptical of the "modernising" commitment of senior civil servants, his approach to the exercise of power became destructive of the very fabric of government.
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While rival legacy airlines long ago began slashing their cost bases and modernising their fleets, Alitalia failed to invest strategically in its route network and its offering, and thus lost ground in the high-margin long-haul and business markets.
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The powerful young prince who is behind modernising reforms in Saudi Arabia is on a three-day trip to France at a time when relations between the two countries have become more complicated, including over how to address Iran's regional role.
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Fitch believes the cities' authorities will target cost savings and efficiencies to offset spending pressure, focusing on employment; modernising public buildings; further IT system development to streamline and consolidate the provision of municipal services; and the creation of common service centres.
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SOCAR plans to complete modernising the refinery by 2000 and start a new oil processing line at the plant, allowing it to increase oil processing to 7.5 million tonnes annually in 2023-2024 from 6 million tonnes at present, Mammadov said.
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Even though the former Russian naval ship remains a training vessel for China's rapidly modernising navy, its missions through tense regional seas have been closely followed in Hong Kong, which is more used to hosting U.S. carriers and other foreign warships.
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DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Canada's foreign minister and Mexico's economy minister struck an upbeat note on Thursday on the outlook for talks with the United States on North American Free Trade Agreement, saying they agreed the deal needed modernising.
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NEW YORK, June 19 (Reuters) - Modernising Lloyd's of London will be a challenge, its chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown said in New York late on Tuesday, as the 330-year old insurance market prepares to switch business to two automated exchanges.
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The low level of collection and the hefty cost of funding its military has left Pakistan with insufficient money to spend on modernising its schools and hospitals, to the dismay of donors who end up financing much of the social infrastructure.
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Russia has been raising its profile in the Arctic, creating or reopening six military bases shut after the Cold War ended in 1990, modernising its Northern Fleet, including 21 new vessels and two nuclear submarines, and staging frequent naval exercises in the Arctic.
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The SPD is returning to opposition, where Mr Schulz's natural pugilism will come into its own and, together with the modernising energies of figures like Manuela Schwesig, could enable the party to go into the post-Merkel election in 2021 revived and newly competitive.
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In their early days in office, people in Turkey's ruling Justice and Development (AK) party always found plenty of friends in Malaysia: allies who shared their belief that governance with a pious Muslim flavour was compatible with modernising, business-friendly policies and a broadly pro-Western orientation.
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" While many of New World's fellow dim sum restaurants are either closing shop or modernising to dish out a product made onsite, Zhou insists that the carts are "what appeals the most to British customers as they're interested to learn and experience proper, authentic Chinese food.
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Embalo, who served as prime minister under Vaz from 2016-18, faces the difficult task of overcoming a long-running political impasse and modernising the West African country of 1.6 million people, which has suffered nine coups or attempted coups since independence from Portugal in 1974.
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"This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to invest in New Zealand — modernising our infrastructure, preparing for climate change and help growing the economy," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in a statement, adding that the investment makes sense now due to historically low interest rates.
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The more than two-century old bank that accounts for about a quarter of Indian bank deposits and loans is modernising its operations, growing its retail business faster and adding new segments to take on new-age private sector lenders whose profitability is higher than their state-run rivals.
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Christian Lindner, who was 34 when he took over the party, has reinvented the FDP by drawing heavily heavily on his own image and assertive personality, "modernising" themes like the digital economy and, increasingly in the final weeks of the campaign, right-populist overtures on Europe and refugees.
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Luckily for him Mr Corbyn was playing safely from the baseline on his trusty topics of gay marriage (delivered by modernising Tories with Labour votes), the return of a prisoner from Guantánamo Bay (not a rousingly popular achievement among Conservatives), the housing shortage and failure to redistribute wealth.
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Britain and Saudi Arabia have set themselves a 65 billion- pound ($90 billion) trade and investment target for the coming years, with London looking for new post-Brexit markets for its services sector, and Prince Mohammed seeking to convince wary investors his country is a tolerant and modernising place.
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It charts how the achingly slow, often thankless and arduous work of modernising society routinely meets resistance where it should not: getting wages and health care recognised as women's issues, introducing measures to raise the proportion of women MPs, improving child care, increasing the pitifully low rate of prosecutions of domestic-violence perpetrators.
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The Modernising Foreign Assistance Network, a group of international development wonks and practitioners, suggests splitting some USAID functions and consolidating a number of different agencies into two new organisations: a Global Development Agency, led by a cabinet-rank director, to control humanitarian relief and sustainable development programmes; and a development finance corporation to support private sector development.
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He shed them as a young engineer in March 1978, when he attended a speech by China's then leader, Deng Xiaoping, assuring an audience of scientists and technicians that the ultra-leftist terrors of the Cultural Revolution were at an end, and that their patriotic duty was to study and work on modernising China, rather than waste time chanting political slogans.
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