The Khost Rebellion was an uprising by the Mangal Pashtun tribe, later joined by the Sulaiman Khel and Ali Khel tribes, against the Westernising reforms made by King Amanullah.

Atay was of a generation deeply committed to the Westernising, scientific, secular culture encouraged by the revolution of the 1920s; he had no nostalgia for the corruption of the late Ottoman Empire, though he knew its literature, and was in particular well versed in Divan poetry.

As before in Russian history, the goal is to modernize without Westernizing.

And in rapidly Westernizing Poland, they are no longer a rarity.

Turkey changed to the Latin alphabet in 1928 as part of an internal Westernizing revolution.

Ladd became the house specialist in the "Westernizing" of overseas animated programming.

For many rural Indians, insulated from the westernizing of urban India, the highway is the most dramatic change in their lifetimes.

This happens when the cast members reinterpret, without the Westernizing gloss, a tribalesque number they had previously performed in Top 40 style.

Haruko was one of the leaders of the strong Westernizing trend, Bunmei Kaika.

Visiting his girlfriend in a rapidly Westernizing Poland, he said, "I was impressed that I couldn't do what other people could."

Ms. Mackey shows how Riza Shah, the Westernizing nationalist, destroyed the traditional balance between crown and mosque.

A dog, a charcoal-colored match for the German overcoat Ka proudly wears, persists in following him around as if to mock his Westernizing vanity.

We can hope that it is another version of Peter the Great - the Westernizing reformer - whose portrait hangs on President Vladimir Putin's wall.

These are societies whose oldest members can recall both the wave of Westernizing that began early in the century and the virtually feudal societies that it nearly swept away.

Michel Camau, a French academic authority on Tunisia, noted that Westernizing and Islamic currents have since the 19th century vied for control of the country's nationalist movement.

The Spanish Friars were the crucial elements in the Westernizing the Philippine Archipelago, and in spreading the Christian faith in this part of the world.

He pursued a Westernizing, modernizing economic policy, and a strongly pro-Western foreign policy; he also made a number of visits to America, where he was regarded as a friend.

A key distinctive of Olson's missionary work is that rather than "Westernizing" or "Americanizing" the Barí, he made a concerted effort to become a part of the indigenous tribe.

Many of the Akha people do not see the tourism as halting the Westernizing and Globalizing pressures, but rather, as a coercive commercialization and commodification of their culture.

And many analysts inside and outside Japan agree that despite the postwar Westernizing trend, it is relationships, much more than laws and regulations, that are the glue holding Japanese society together.

The Navy turned to the United Kingdom for assistance in modernizing and Westernizing, and the Royal Navy provided military advisors to assist in the development of the curriculum.

"Vladimir is so ambivalent: he's got both Moskvityanin-like pro-Russian views which I share myself, but also the Belinsky-inspired Westernizing," the poet wrote in a letter to P.A.Viskovatov.

A hundred years of fitful Westernizing, following Commodore Matthew Perry's famous "opening" of Japan to the West in 1853, had come to this, a suicidal attack in more ways than one.

In terms of Russian history, Putin compares himself not to Peter the Great, the Westernizing tsar, but, rather, to Pyotr Stolypin (1862-1911), the iron-fisted economic reformer of the pre-revolutionary period.

And in his hunger to be one of the young visionaries of perestroika, he is about to take the most radical step of his career - the Westernizing of the management techniques of his huge state monopoly.

They despise Mr. Yeltsin for his Westernizing influence, and hope to use the symbol of Nicholas and his murder to rally support for their authoritarian views and misplaced reverence for the imperial family.

A 1990's painting trend known as Cynical Realism shifts its attention away from a revolutionary past to an equally, if differently problematic present: a rapidly Westernizing China of stampeding commercialism, bureaucratic corruption and social inequities.

The commercial focus was westernizing Indian culture too quickly for them.

Songs began to become more westernized in sound and length (now around 5-20 minutes).

His efforts to westernize Turkey have led to mixed results.

He also westernized some plays to appeal to western visitors.

In what was left over of that great empire almost everything traditional had to be replaced or westernized.

The city itself was created as one fantastic exercise in westernizing Russia.

It's not about the educated, westernized Indians you have worked with in our offices around the world.

Fully westernized, it will alleviate the strongest case of culture shock.

By the 19th century, many were wealthy, educated and westernized.

By the time Hughes revisited it, the recipe was well established and westernized.

From his accent, he'd started out in some East Coast city, although he was trying hard to westernize it.

As Japan becomes more westernized there is growing concern for the treatment of the sexual and gender minorities.

It originally represented the country's willingness to change and grow, even partially westernize.

Himal's thinking is westernized and has friends of poor character.

The term reflects attitudes within Filipino culture and attempts to become more westernized.

And in rapidly Westernizing Poland, they are no longer a rarity.

Turkey, whose political leadership has systematically tried to Westernize the country since the 1920s, is his chief example.

Now I live in Beijing and find that works of art stars are very much westernized."

After living in America and Europe she is westernized and knows little of her native language.

The neighborhood of Anfa is known to be the most upper class and westernized in the city.

Otunbayeva's political beliefs slowly westernized through the years leading up to 2005.

Born in exile, the man was completely westernized, and his sharp words were pronounced with a crisp British accent.

However, as with the rest of the world, they have been rapidly westernized as a result of globalization.

Anatolia was to be westernized under Christian governments.

In the mid 20th century, the ancient traditions were commercialized and westernized.

He attempted to westernise the Burmese kingdom's existing bureaucracy into a more democratic system.

Shortly after, the first scholars stepped ashore, and though initially sympathetic, were often motivated by a desire to westernise the local population.

Max the Soviets did as much to 'westernise' Afghanistan as we did.

Efforts to westernise the armies were half-hearted and undisciplined: Newer techniques were not absorbed by the soldiers while the older methods and experience were lost.

When he became Tsar, he brought more German experts (and other foreigners) into Russia, and particularly into government service, in his attempts to westernise the empire.

They wanted to westernise the Syrian Christians and their attempt at the Synod of Diamper held in 1599 A.D is now part of history.

For example, the ban on consumption of meat from livestock was lifted in 1871 in order to "westernise" the country, and many former eta moved on to work in abattoirs and as butchers.

He reorganised the chiefs and their duties and tried to Westernise his subjects by encouraging them to wear European-style clothing, utilise new building methods and house styles, and work to improve roads.

Independent nations attempting to westernise or impress Europe sometimes cultivated an image of slavery suppression, even as they, in the case of Egypt, hired European soldiers like Samuel White Baker's expedition up the Nile.

More significantly, as a part of the effort to westernise and modernise Japan, the Japanese government banned polygamy, which was previously allowed to any family with noble rank (samurai or kuge), particularly if the first wife could not produce male offspring.

The form of the Russian Imperial Crown dates back to the time of Peter the Great's early attempts to westernise Russia and was probably inspired by the crowns worn by Habsburg emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and possibly also the Orthodox mitre.