modernisation

Cameron's reliance on Blair also extended to using the word modernisation repeatedly as opposed to reorganisation or reform.

The Guardian World News Patrick Wintour 2011

At its heart was "modernisation" - a term much bandied around by both sides, but with crucially different views as to what it should mean.

The Guardian World News 2009

Senior coalition members admit they have been forced on the defensive by claims that ministers did not know whether the modernisation was a revolution or an evolution of plans set in train by Blair's health secretaries.

NHS cuts: Scale of shakeup took No 10 by surprise 2011

He thought he could play it his way: tell America God's word and God's will, uncompromised by so-called modernisation and the we-know-best presumption that was political correctness.

Not the End of the World Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1998

This difference is profound: the very word modernisation means one thing in America, another in Britain.

New Statesman 2009

"We believe changes and modernisation is long overdue and it should be implemented jointly with the spirit of industrial relations, whereas Royal Mail want to impose changes and so-called modernisation by diktat."

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

"Not just the degradation of this beautiful heritage precinct, which has the finest art deco buildings in the world, the so-called modernisation will increase congestion with hundreds of cars plying on the narrow roads," said Shyam Chainani, an environmentalist.

Daily News & Analysis 2009

Lansley is simply continuing what New Labour started; this is the natural extension of all your 'modernisation' rubbish.

The NHS deserves better than government meddling | David Miliband 2011

(The matter of 'modernisation' might also be another issue for some.)

'Modern' Arabic typefaces Jonathan 2007

Blair's achievements in office were mostly a hangover from those of opposition, of the Labour "modernisation" drive of 1992-6.

Simon Jenkins: Toasting Tony 2008