Business groups expect trade with the rapidly modernizing nation to grow dramatically when all barriers are lifted.

Oil had stimulated new industry, cities were being modernized rapidly and ambitious plans promised change in the countryside.

It was their boldest ultimatum to date, backed by China's rapidly modernizing military.

In the 1970's, the state modernized rapidly; built roads, schools, hospitals and universities; and gave safe government jobs to its people.

It all seems so Victorian now; the methods of getting money overseas are modernizing rapidly.

A rapidly modernizing, capitalist economy was replaced by populist and Islamic economic and cultural policies.

His aim was to rapidly modernize the country.

Their marital problems are partially a consequence of Spain's rapidly modernizing consumer society.

These new factories, along with the public works designed to support them, gave Mexico in the 195os an image of a rapidly modernizing nation.

More specifically, the North was rapidly modernizing in a manner threatening to the South.