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Italy was the model of a modernising Mediterranean state. "Spain is different" , as a tourist slogan of the 1960s used to put it.

Mr Medvedev has firmly embraced, at least verbally, the modernising political and economic agenda that Russia sorely needs.

Clever and "modernising" as the creation of the family council may have been, it has yet to prove its efficacy.

Megumi Tomita of NSK says papers have managed to make up for advertising losses by modernising their printing plants.

If the previous generation was intent on modernising Japan at high speed, the next one prefers a slower pace with less consumption.

Even so, three years later, when he set about modernising China, he put the PLA last in the queue, behind farming, industry and science.

Their most magnificent coup was a collection of royal cast-offs, Stuart furniture and tapestries, just when everyone was modernising.

Admiral Wu Shengli, the PLA Navy's commander, has said the navy is modernising because of China's "expanded national interests" .

It is modernising apace, opening more international offices and is supported by a solid domestic asset management industry.

The teaching of social science had a practical basis in supporting the modernising ideals of educational reform.

The emir does not pretend he is anything but a benevolent modernising autocrat.

Nowhere is the incipient rivalry sharper than between America's armed forces and their rapidly modernising Chinese counterparts.

Similarly, the gambling scandal is ultimately about professionalising and modernising the JSA, which has long resisted reform.

The country's lamentable transport system and antique public administration offer plenty of scope for modernising zeal.

Modernising the management of international monetary affairs could prove an important contribution to future growth.

These achievements all contrast sharply with Beijing's huge challenges in modernising a still poor and technologically weak country.

That may have advantages: John Paul neglected the papal administration, the Curia, which badly needs modernising.

Besides, Turkey needs to keep on modernising for its own sake, not just to please the Brussels bureaucracy.

The country did a huge job in modernising and reforming the state in order to be able to join.

Mr Koch suggests cuts to education and child care, precisely the areas where Mrs Merkel hopes to make her modernising mark as chancellor.

Tourists and trainspotters may be tickled by a fast train to China. Yet the real point of modernising the railways is cargo.

THIS may seem an odd moment to make the claim, but Britain is a country in the grip of a modernising frenzy.

Meanwhile, the Railteam collaboration of Europe's leading high-speed operators will be modernising and extending high-speed track.

Suffers from comparisons with Mr Cameron, whose images (young modernising) is virtually identical but who has a bigger PR budget.

Overhauling, modernising and optimising: JUNKER ASSIST Services can give your grinding machines a new future.

It has been very important in modernising the Polish economy, but remains relatively low.

It says China has the world's "most active land-based ballistic and cruise missile programme" and is modernising nuclear forces.

Gruen wanted to improve upon the American city centre by modernising and Europeanising it.

Both have sunk enormous sums of their own money into buying players and modernising their clubs' infrastructure.

The other says he will look for more private-public partnerships in modernising infrastructure, provided the state decides the priorities.

Yet, unlike its neighbour, the emirate pursues modernising and tolerant social policies, especially via its first lady, Sheikha Mozah.

While China's navy has been modernising rapidly, some analysts believe its real capabilities are being exaggerated.

From physical infrastructure to market reform, China is modernising on all fronts at once.

We propose modernising US anti-dumping laws to account for currency undervaluation.

All the things, indeed, that China still needs to keep modernising its economy.

Meanwhile, the PLA is modernising its weapons delivery systems.

As a reward, Costa Rica is to receive a $300m soft loan, help with building a 30, 000-seat stadium and modernising an oil refinery.

The same holds for modernising plants to avoid either type of emissions.

Russia's power industry is planning to pour $100bn into modernising the country's creaking electricity network.

But China is modernising the means to deliver its nuclear warheads.

Can the US prevent the Chinese military from modernising by restricting readily available commercial items?

Mr Vestberg explains that Ericsson has been building new networks for mobile operators and modernising old ones.

we need to begin the serious work of modernising and reforming the structure.

He was charged, between 1967 and 1975, with modernising, and saving, the once world-beating British car industry.

The country's massive armed forces are modernising.

China is also modernising its nuclear arsenal.

I know impeccably "modernising" MPs who despair of Number 10's haughtiness.

Yet the real point of modernising the railways is cargo.

Between 2000-2005 China spent one billion yuan (US$12. 6 million) in creating new medicines and modernising traditional Chinese medicines.

Emerging economies such as India's are modernising very fast.

More than half of Conservative parliamentary party decline to support PM on issue at heart of his modernising agenda

Few now recollect Eden's general-election win or Callaghan's proto-modernising;

Although Tibet is modernising fast,