This marked the beginning of the corporatising and professionalising of the sport in Singapore.

This, coupled with the professionalising of the party machine's approach to the media, helped Labour win a historic landslide in the 1997 General Election, after 18 years of Conservative government.

Significant progress has been made in professionalizing the armed forces and the police.

There are four hundred public schools between municipal and private ones from elementary to high school, many with professionalizing courses.

After 200 years, obligatory military service for young men ended yesterday, a change intended as a major step toward professionalizing the armed forces.

The Commission will, therefore, need to professionalise its communication activities.

During his time as Mayor he aimed to professionalise the city and run it "like a business."

This was due to various actions, particularly by women, to professionalise the homemaking process.

In 1994 he founded Webmedia to professionalise the process of web site design and build.

Several measures were identified as necessary to professionalise the police in India:

Her main policies were to professionalise the party, introducing a shadow cabinet, and to focus on communication through the media.

We should therefore professionalise it.

The aim of Webmedia was to professionalise the design and building of web sites, a service that had not been available before that time.

The group aims to professionalise and promote technology and knowledge transfer between European scientists and industries from around the world.

He founded the Chilean Military Academy in 1817, aiming to professionalise the officer corps.

The political parties need to be careful that in their drive to professionalise, they don't unintentionally narrow the backgrounds of those they select as candidates.

While most soldiers are not currently formally qualified for their rank, there are determined moves to professionalise the army after the restructure is complete.

They objected to the army's increasingly corrupt and inefficient leadership, and hoped to reorganise and professionalise the military.

After a few conversations with him, it was obvious to me that Tom Staudt was the man we needed to professionalise Chevrolet's total marketing effort.

In between, he found time to author the "Q-Report" detailing plans to professionalise the development of football players in the United States.

In the early 1930s, James Bridie, as one of the board members, attempted to push Scottish National Players to professionalise.

In many countries, federal or state governments have taken steps to professionalise the industry by requiring bouncers to have training, licensing, and a criminal records background check.

A preventative measure that is equally fundamental, however, is to reinforce and professionalise cooperation and the exchange of information between national bodies when international matches take place.

RedR offers credit rated courses in partnership with Oxford Brookes University in an effort to further professionalise the humanitarian sector.

These states did not accept "radical" concepts such as democracy or popular sovereignty, but they did struggle to professionalise their public services and to reduce corruption and favoritism.

A board was also elected to professionalise the club, with S H Nicholls named as the clubs first chairman and Wilson continuing as Club Secretary.

Manubhai also pushed and helped to expand, modernise and professionalise the Amul Dairy in Anand, Gujarat on an international scale and design.

Among other things, the CWDC was responsible for introducing Early Years Professional Status, as part of the government's aim to professionalise the early years workforce.

The degree in Equine studies has been hailed as the first course of its kind in Australia and a forerunner in higher education needed to professionalise the equine industry.

D. Improving quality: to improve standards and quality in teaching and learning in literacy, language and numeracy and to remodel and professionalise the Skills for Life workforce.

Not until about 1920 was much effort made to professionalize the work.

I think it's part of the movement to professionalize teaching.

We really need to upgrade our training and professionalize the force.

There's a lack of a commitment to professionalizing state government.

"One of the decisions in the plan was to clean house, to professionalize our administration," he said.

IN effect, we've professionalized biography, made a career of it.

This was also the time period in which Canadian football began to "professionalize".

"You appoint a director and let him professionalize it," he said.

It also tried to professionalize the newscasts, with little success.

Samaranch has also been the leading force toward professionalizing the Games.

"But now we're finally seeing organizations that are professionalizing what was a very amateur political movement."

This coordinate has not been adopted since 1996 when the team professionalized.

"We must act quickly to professionalize our investments in order to maintain public confidence," he said.

Many of Indonesia's leaders, apparently including the president, realize that the government needs to professionalize its military.

The club received fresh capital from its new main sponsor and was fully professionalized.

"We are not in the business of professionalizing football."

"I want to professionalize it, and make darned sure what we have is perfect in every sense of the word."

Money has allowed us to professionalize campaigns, when they should be an amateur sport.

He has professionalized its research department and organizing efforts.

Most had already started programs and were looking to professionalize and expand.

In the 1930s the government created fado houses to professionalize and control the movement.

Academic historians, on the other hand, were busy professionalizing their discipline.

This development sets up the club to achieve its long term goal which is to professionalize the organization.

In the late 1950s the Dutch film industry professionalized.

Beginning in 1936, a Chilean mission helped to professionalize the corps.