1.   At the same time, there is a desire by most military institutions to modernize their equipment.

2.   In the private sector, companies are encouraged to borrow and invest in modernizing equipment, expanding businesses and creating jobs.

3.   It spent millions to modernize election equipment and ensure fraud-free balloting.

4.   Other local fishermen have gone heavily into debt to suppliers on the mainland in order to modernize their equipment.

5.   The agency is trying to modernize its equipment, a task that is complicated by the need to keep the air traffic system operating without interruption.

6.   The armed forces, under the control of a civilian defense minister as NATO requires, are modernizing equipment and revamping training procedures to conform to NATO norms.

7.   The Federal Aviation Administration was insulated by a patchwork of antiquated systems, a shield expected to dissolve as it modernized equipment.

8.   The injection of capital was intended to modernize aging equipment, introduce current marketing methods, open a chain of Red October retail outlets, and build a factory.

9.   Defense spending should be increased to modernize equipment, and the armed forces should be ready to fully participate in two crisis response operations at the same time.

10.   Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian also confirmed Wednesday that the United States will help modernize communications equipment.