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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
modernise .
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Examples
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This conception is latent in Malory, but it is central in Tennyson; and everywhere he subtilises, refines, elevates, and, in short, modernises the _Motivirung_ in the old story.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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Only if the BCCI modernises, and modernises fast, will it escape its world of endless personal power struggles.
What now for Indian cricket in the post-Lalit Modi era? David Hopps 2010
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Only if the BCCI modernises fast will it escape personal power struggles but IPL franchises await the future with trepidation
What now for Indian cricket in the post-Lalit Modi era? David Hopps 2010
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The clause modernises the language of the current law with the aim of improving understanding of this area of the law.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Oh, and while I'm blatantly advertising good films from Colin Firth, keep your eye out for The Meat Trade, a film that modernises the Burke and Hare tale and is filmed in Edinburgh, Firth and Robert Carlyle star in the Irvine Welsh written and Antonia Bird directed film.
Filmstalker: Accidental Husband four minute clip online 2007
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It tells the story of a professional hitman who is given the contract of killing the French President Charles de Gaulle, this remake changes and modernises loads, and unfortunately loses the heart and drive of the original.
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While our commercial relationship is relatively small, there is considerable scope for growth in trade and investment as the Croatian economy grows and modernises in preparation for future EU accession.
Media Release from the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Diplomatic Appointment - Ambassador to Croatia 2006
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It is – truly – an awakening giant, which faces enormous internal hurdles as it modernises, not least the economic and political impacts of transition from socialist enterprise to market capitalism.
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A programme that reforms and modernises - without destroying the benefits of our post-war development.
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It removes the rigidities and inflexibilities in previous employment legislation and "modernises the law".
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