1.   The country carried out far-reaching reforms to modernize its economy.

2.   As China continues to modernize its economy, it will face new pressures from within and without to open up its political system as well.

3.   But their achievements in modernizing their economies should be matched by efforts to modernize their political systems.

4.   By encouraging those Iranians who want to modernize the economy and moderate the society, the United States could go a long way toward containing Iraq.

5.   Central Europe and Russia can improve energy efficiency while modernizing their economies.

6.   Democracy has also spread because it can help countries modernize their economies, ameliorate social conditions and integrate with the outside world.

7.   He played a significant role in modernizing the economy, improving transportation, bringing public works to neglected regions and medical care to neglected elderly.

8.   His anti-Communist, pro-Western government began the tough process of modernizing the economy through industrialization and foreign investment, and by holding the line on prices and wages.

9.   Hungary is vulnerable to the jitters of foreign investors because it has relied heavily on foreign capital to modernize its economy.

10.   Perez Balladares has modernized the economy and privatized inefficient state companies.