Modernized Sentence Examples

The modernized town hall was originally built in 1448.

They were begun in 1758 and completed in 1807, but have been completely modernized.

In Sicily, which for centuries had enjoyed a feudal constitution modernized and Anglicized under British auspices in 1812, and where anti-Neapolitan feeling was strong, autonomy was suppressed, the constitution abolished in 1816, and the island, as a reward for its fidelity to the dynasty, converted into a Neapolitan province governed by Neapolitan bureaucrats.

There are portions of later date, but still ancient, in the main building, but it has been considerably modernized as a residence.

The church has been modernized.

The Premier line offers four more models, each crafted to display a classic, yet modernized style.

The cardio rebounder is a modernized version of a mini-trampoline.

Current Boy Scout uniform shirts have been modernized to include Velcro-closure, bellows pockets and a mini-pocket added to the left sleeve.

Francesco, as it has been called since 1261, when it came into the possession of the Franciscans, has been almost entirely modernized, except for the crypt and campanile (11th century).

There is no critical edition, and the only version available for the general reader is the modernized and abridged text published by Paulin Paris in vols.

The castle, built by Robert Guiscard, has been modernized, and so has the cathedral.

Adjoining the town is the beautiful park of Lord Dynevor, which contains the ruined keep of Dinefawr Castle and the residence of the Rices (Lords Dynevor), erected early in the 17th century but modernized in 1858.

The interior of the cathedral has been barbarously modernized, but the crypt is fine.

The place was modernized about a generation ago by Zia Pasha, the poet, when governor, and is now an unusually well built Turkish town with good bazaar and khans and a fine clock-tower.

The principal buildings are the parish church of St Andrew (dating from the time of Henry I., modernized in 1710, rebuilt with the exception of the tower in 1805, and again rebuilt in 1878), and the handsome Gothic mechanics' institute and technical school (1870).

The town is modernized, has broad streets and large squares, and a particularly handsome bazaar.

A portion of the tower of St John's church remains, but has been completely modernized.

The cathedral, dedicated to San Cataldo, an Irish bishop, dating from the 11th century, has externally some remains of Saracenic Gothic; internally it has been completely modernized, and the shrine of the patron saint has been termed "an orgy of rococo."

There are efficient hospitals and asylums, a system of sanitary inspection, and modernized quarantine stations.

In a paper on a " Proposed New Version of the Bible " he paraphrased a few verses of the first chapter of Job, making them a satiric attack on royal government; but the version may well rank with these hoaxes, and even modern writers have been taken in by it, regarding it as a serious proposal for a " modernized " version and decrying it as poor taste.

Government Avenue contains, on the east side, the Houses of Parliament, government house, a modernized Dutch building, and the Jewish synagogue; on the west side are the Anglican cathedral and grammar schools, the public library, botanic gardens, the museum and South African college.

The two old churches, St Michael's, the central tower and lofty spire of which rise from Norman arches, and Holy Rood, partly Decorated, are greatly modernized.

Under his sway the town was modernized and developed, but the finances were badly administered, and Fazy became more and more a radical dictator.

The inner line of fortifications was removed in 1902 and the city has been completely modernized.

Tiaret (pop. 5778), an ancient town modernized by the French, can be reached by railway from Mostaganem.

The castle has remains of Norman work in the keep, and other ancient portions (including the gateway) of later date, but is in part modernized as a residence.

The Dominican church, a Gothic building of the 13th century, but practically rebuilt after a fire in 1850; the Franciscan church, also of the 13th century, also much modernized; the church of St Florian of the 12th century, rebuilt in 1768, which contains the late-Gothic altar by Veit Stoss, executed in 1518, during his last sojourn in Cracow; the church of St Peter, with a colossal dome, built in 1597, after the model of that of St Peter at Rome, and the beautiful Augustinian church in the suburb of Kazimierz, are all worth mentioning.

It has a fine southern Romanesque cathedral of the end of the 11th century, with a modernized interior, and a castle which from 1456 belonged to the Acquaviva family, dukes of Atri and counts of Conversano.

A text so transmitted must in the lapse of time be profoundly though insensibly modified, its forms and expressions modernized, and, if widely disseminated, local variations introduced into it.

The cathedral is partly of the 12th century, with a porch and facade with small arcades - in black and white marble, as is the case with several other churches of Pistoiabut was remodelled in the 13th century, and modernized inside in the worst taste.

There are several old charities, including the hospital of St John the Baptist, founded in 1109 but modernized; the hospital of St Anne, founded probably in the reign of Henry VI.

The church of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe (modernized with a shingle roof and a wooden steeple) contains interesting paintings and antique wood-carvings.

The cathedral, erected between 1298 and 1448 on Monte Taber, an oval hill which forms the highest point of the Rambla, is one of the finest examples of Spanish Gothic; although it is not designed on a great scale and some parts have been freely modernized.

Marco, modernized inside, still retains a beautiful facade of 1254 and a tower - in brick as elsewhere - and contains another tomb by Balduccio.

Adjoining it to the north is the Cappella Colleoni, with a richly sculptured polychrome façade, and a modernized interior, containing the fine tombs of Bartolommeo Colleoni (c. 1400-1475), a native of Bergamo, and his daughter Medea.

The church of St Mary Magdalene, though occupying an ancient site, is wholly modernized.

On the Russian frontier Konigsberg, Danzig, Thorn, Posen, Glogau (and on a smaller scale Boyen in East Prussia and Graudenz on the Vistula) were modernized and improved.

The old palace of the doges, originally a building of the 13th century, to which the tower alone belongs, the rest of the building having been remodelled in the 16th century and modernized after a fire in 1777, stands in the Piazza Umberto Primo near the cathedral, and now contains the telegraph and other government offices.

Its lanes are narrow, steep and winding; many of the houses are entered by wooden staircases; and though considerably modernized the town has a medieval air.

The language in which we receive these ballads, however, is as late as the 16th or even the 17th century, but it is believed that they have become gradually modernized in the course of oral tradition.

Besides a fine Roman Catholic church, a court house and barracks, Macroom possesses a modernized castle, which is said to have been founded by King John, though it is more probably attributable to Norman invaders.

The interior has been modernized; there is a fine relief by Matteo da Campione in the organ-loft, representing the coronation of a king, and some 15th-century frescoes with scenes from the life of Theodelinda.

The harbour is defended by Fort Taylor, built on the island of Key West in 1846, and greatly improved and modernized after the Spanish-American War of 1898.1898.

The old synagogue, an unassuming building erected in the r rth century and restored in the 13th, is completely modernized.

It is still one of the five fortified places in Belgium, although its defences are not modernized.

The remainder of the massive defences remain, with twenty bastions, in the hands of the military authorities; the works for laying the surrounding country under water on the eastern side have been modernized, and the western side defended by a cordon of forts crowning the hills and extending down to the port of Neufahrwasser.

The cathedral (San Rufino) has a fine facade with three rose-windows of 1140; the interior was modernized in 1572.

A fortification on one of the islands here was erected by Gustavus Vasa, but has been modernized and is maintained.

The campanile still preserves portions of its original architecture, but the interior has been modernized.

That fortress, with modernized permanent works, and a main defence line studded with infantry redoubts farther out and a full interval-organization, had a very considerable perimeter.

In 1871 it appeared probable for a moment that the wishes of the Bohemians, who desired that their ancient constitution should be re-established in a modernized form, would be realized.

Pantaleo, almost entirely modernized, has fine bronze doors by Barisanus of Trani (1179), and two pulpits in Cosmatesque work.

St Martin's, with a low tower and spire, close to the castle, is probably the oldest church in the town, but has been much modernized.

The buildings are modern or large modernized.

It appeared in Blazh (1 793-95) It falls short of the older version of 1688; it was modernized in its language, and no doubt a careful examination would reveal differences in the translation of those passages in which the Catholic tradition differs from the Eastern.

If the king or queen could either have had the political genius of Frederick the Great, or could have had the good fortune to find a minister with that genius, and the good sense and good faith to trust and stand by him against mobs of aristocrats and mobs of democrats; if the army had been sound and the states-general had been convoked at Bourges or Tours instead of at Paris, then the type of French monarchy and French society might have been modernized without convulsion.

That alphabet is called " Cyrillic " (in Servian Kyrilitsa), and is - simplified and modernized - practically the alphabet used by the Servians, Bulgarians and Russians of our times.

These fortifications, which date from the time of the Portuguese occupation, have been partly modernized.

The modernized parish church of St Peter, or Pedr, contains some old monuments of the Lloyd family.

Though largely modernized, the palace is an interesting specimen of Renaissance architecture; the "cathedral" (Romanesque-Byzantine style), and the oceanographical museum may also be mentioned.

Maria Assunta, much modernized in 1644, occupies the site of a church of the Lombard dukes erected about 602.

If so, the copyist has modernized his copy, for some features of the Apoxyomenus belong to the Hellenistic age.

This ancient drovers ' inn has been modernized with the addition of a dining room with spectacular views.

I have attempted to provide readers with a modernized edition of the text with editorial emendations.

The apartment has stained glass windows and wooden paneling while being fully modernized in 2005.

A 4 bedroom contemporary style detached house, newly modernized which will accommodate up to 9 persons.

It also modernized the legal tools investigators needed to conduct more effective investigations, he said.

The buildings were old military gunboat storages which were now modernized and used as?

Midland Red from 1945 modernized the look of front engined busses by concealing the radiators.

The Hall, an old modernized building, occupied by a tenant, stands on an eminence, commanding a richly varied prospect.

Some of the more oppressive measures of the previous reign were abolished; the clergy, the nobles and the merchants were exempted from corporal punishment; the central organs of administration were modernized and the Council of the Empire was created; the idea of granting a constitution was academically discussed; great schemes for educating the people were entertained; parish schools, gymnasia, training colleges and ecclesiastical seminaries were founded; the existing universities of Moscow, Vilna and Dorpat were reorganized and new ones founded in Kazan and Kharkov; the great work of serf-emancipation was begun in the Baltic provinces.

The word Shetland is supposed to be simply a modernized rendering of the Old Norse Hjaltland, of which the meaning is variously given as "high land," "Hjalti's land" - after Hjalti, a man whose name occurs in ancient Norse literature, but of whom little else is known - and "hilt land," in allusion to an imagined, though not too obvious, resemblance in the configuration of the archipelago to the hilt of a sword.

In the 15th century it received its classical expression in the resolutions of the ecumenical council at Constance; its principles were developed and amplified by Gallicanism, and, finally, in the 18th century, was restored in a modernized form by " Febronius" (Nikolaus von Hontheim, q.v.) and in the Punctation of Ems (see Febr0nianism).

Adjoining it to the north is the Cappella Colleoni, with a richly sculptured polychrome façade, and a modernized interior, containing the fine tombs of Bartolommeo Colleoni (c. 1400-1475), a native of Bergamo, and his daughter Medea.

Some English strongholds, such as Alnwick, Chillingham, Ford and Naworth, have been modernized; others, like Norham, Wark and Warkworth, are picturesque ruins; but most of the Scottish fortresses have been demolished and their sites built over, or are now represented by grass-grown mounds.

That means fast, punctual trains; a modernized efficient London Underground; cities not gummed up by congestion.

The house stands at the end of an unmade farm drive and has been modernized for holiday letting in 2005.

Through the windfall levy, 5,000 schools throughout Britain have already been modernized.

Many regard them as retro decor, but modernized versions are making beaded curtains popular again.

At David's Bridal, you'll find all of the long and lithe classics we've come to love, but now they've been modernized with shortened lengths, backless backs, and straps that slash across the body in the most intriguing of ways.

The large bow that accompanies the dress has been modernized for our times in an eye-catching satin finish.

Check these out if you are looking for a modernized version for your bridesmaid's jewelry without sacrificing any of the grace and beauty associated with them.

While these are somewhat better than all-cotton fabrics, they really can't compare to the more modernized microfibers of today.

Designers often combine the trend of the moment with classic elements to create a more modernized version that reflects current tastes.

Guests can sit inside a modernized dining room or outside overlooking the Galveston Bay.

Pica has been observed in ethnic groups worldwide, in both primitive and modernized cultures, in both sexes, and in all age groups.

This may be the earliest of what is considered a modern country line dance since it happened a couple of decades prior to the launch of 1970s pop, swing and modernized country western music.

Think Twiggy in her heyday for the ultimate inspiration, but look to Sienna Miller's heavily layered take on the look for a more modernized, trendy feel.

Today, the original Cabbage Patch Dolls have been modernized.

The difficulties will lie in assessing how modernized both you and your partner have become in reference to gender roles and family involvement.

Although the books have been modernized through the years, Nancy remains the smart, sassy crime-solver we all know and love.

A Viking boot touched with fur, is a thoroughly modernized update of a shoe that could not be more steeped in history.

The process for creating these tattoos does not vary greatly from the modernized tattooing practices followed in Western culture today.

Rent is basically a modernized La Boheme, Puccini's opera about young Parisian artists struggling with poverty and disease - namely, consumption (tuberculosis).

After the Turks were driven from the city in 1878, it was in many respects modernized; but something of its former character is preserved in the ancient Turkish palace, mosque and fountain, the maze of winding alleys and picturesque houses in the older quarters, and, on market days, by the medley of peasant costumes - Bulgarian, Albanian and Rumanian, as well as Servian.

Fairbairn, " Plato's arguments for immortality, isolated, modernized, may be feeble, even valueless, but allowed to stand where and as he himself puts them, they have an altogether different worth.

Sofia, a circular edifice of about 760, now modernized, the roof of which is supported by six ancient columns, is a relic of the Lombard period; it has a fine cloister of the 12th century constructed in part of fragments of earlier buildings; while the cathedral with its fine arcaded facade and incomplete square campanile (begun in 1279) dates from the 9th century and was rebuilt in 1114.