The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.
The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.
In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still. Now Africa is modernizing. In the next twenty years, Africa is modernizing economically, and one of two things is going to happen. Either Africa will be just like the rest of the world and it's say goodbye to wildlife. Or, we can learn from the mistakes made in the rest of the world.
Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.
Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.
The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless, promiscuous, modernizing lightweights, yet many Jerusalemites were already living the fashionable lifestyle using Greek and Jewish names to show they could be both. Jewish conservatives disagreed; for them, the Greeks were simply idolaters.
