modernizer
moderniser BrE

He was also, throughout much of his life, a radical modernizer.

If you want to label people modernizers, we got there in this union first.

They were modernizers but remained part of the music's weave.

The war between modernizers and traditionalists will continue for a long time to come.

The station chief, while still supporting the modernizers, took his advice.

So far, the modernizers have scored all the points.

He is a cautious modernizer who has introduced some economic and social liberalization.

Like many proponents of a New South, he wanted modernizers to take over.

That will boost Turkey's new political class - modernizers from a religious background.

Ataturk had been a soldier, a modernizer from above and a savior of his country.

They then put it though the "modernizer" and it comes out as a new Chevrolet.

His younger brother Kanaung proved to be a great administrator and modernizer.

Even the most outspoken modernizers say the Saud ruling family is needed to hold the country together.

The modernizers and technocrats, who would have been natural allies in this struggle, were silent.

The modernizers will always need to be backed by the sword as well as the seminar.

Amanullah Khan was ultimately deposed for being too much of a modernizer.

"The Imam came down very hard on modernizers."

Women, given their low literacy rate, were regarded as having the highest potential for becoming the "modernizers" of Soviet society.

A modernizer, Ritchie came to promote public schools and extensive state internal improvements.

He considers himself a builder and a modernizer.

"The modernizers in the army want to legalize it and institutionalize it."

On one side are the modernizers, with their absolute belief in science, rationality, individualism and progress.

Although a modernizer on the Imperial pattern, he was perfectly frank about his distrust of foreigners.

The modernizers insisted that schools lead the way, and that science replace superstition.

But he was also a modernizer.

Can a person with such a mindset become a moderniser?

He was a moderniser who instituted significant change, especially in the fields of education and administration.

Is he dumping the moderniser image and embracing the traditionalists?

Haughey on the other hand was considered a moderniser.

In the 2005 party leadership election, he backed young moderniser David Cameron.

He is considered a moderniser who is interested in embracing new cultures and ideas.

Tafari was a moderniser, believing that Ethiopia needed to open itself to the world in order to survive.

He is a moderniser within the Conservative Party.

At first William Hague portrayed himself as a moderniser with a common touch.

Rafter was a noted moderniser of the service.

To find himself tied to such a dim, dowdy, declining old body is no life for a passionate young moderniser.

He cast himself as a moderniser and claimed to represent a clean break with the country's traditional ruling elite.

You have also got the problem that you yourself are a free trader, a globalist, a moderniser.

He was from the right of the party and replaced moderniser Mark MacGregor.

He is regarded as a moderniser in the Conservative Party, contributing in both policy and image terms.

"Jesus was a moderniser," he once said.

Lange saw Douglas as a moderniser.

Some scholars describe him as a moderate, progressive moderniser caught between the influence of conservative older leaders and young radicals.

Second, Mr Deng was less an idealist than a sensible moderniser and nationalist.

How the innovations of unlikely moderniser King George V helped rescue the monarchy.

Deng Xiaoping, the moderniser, had survived several purges and was now able to rise to power and take centre stage.

Considered a pioneer reformer and moderniser, the emperor committed suicide in 1868 rather than fall into the hands of a hostile British expeditionary force.

A passionate moderniser she famously ruffled feathers when she told Tory activists they were seen as members of the "nasty party".

Sixty-nine-year-old Zhao, described as a 'classic moderniser', had pioneered economic reforms in the rural areas starting in 1978.

Marino was famous in his time and acclaimed by his contemporaries as the successor and moderniser of Tasso.