(v. t.) To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(2) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
(3) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(4) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(5) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
(6) Although runaway pacemaker is a rare complication in modern pacemakers, but it still exists.
(7) We come to see that some traditions keep us grounded, but that, in our modern world, other traditions set us back.” Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects more than 130 million girls and women around the world.
(8) But when the city's Gallery of Modern Art opened in 1998, it totally – and scandalously – ignored the new wave of Glasgow artists.
(9) Modern art was interpreted in the catalogue as a conspiracy by Russian Bolsheviks and Jewish dealers to destroy European culture.
(10) It has been shown that modern premedication techniques do not prevent the activation of the sympathoadrenal system and the enhanced synthesis of cyclic nucleotides and prostaglandin-like compounds in response to preoperative stress.
(11) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
(12) Our results were consistent with the modern anesthesia standard in closed circuit t.i.
(13) We try to determinate, that systems theory has to be introduced into modern medicine.
(14) The HindIII restriction patterns of 3 of the ancestral S. enteritidis plasmids were identical to the modern 38 MDa plasmid, while all contained identical bands of 3.5, 2.7 and 1.9 kb.
(15) When she speaks, it is in a quiet, clear voice that is middle-class but also flat and London-inflected enough to seem almost classless: it is the voice of the modern southern English professional.
(16) Much more recently, use of modern CT ("computed tomography") scanning equipment on the London Archaeopteryx's skull has enabled scientists to reconstruct the whole of its bony brain case - and so model the structure of the brain itself.
(17) Although classifications initially paralleled the staging of pelvic malignancies, more modern systems follow the natural progression of this pathologic process.
(18) Audiences were disappointed that the love scenes between Taylor and Burton that had been the talk of modern Rome were not repeated with so much passion in those of ancient Rome.
(19) Antimicrobiologic chemotherapy is a cornerstone in the modern concept of treatment of sepsis.
(20) It lies in retrofitting old cities to modern demands.
Streamline
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(2) The HSE wants to streamline the assessment of new reactor designs by waiving certain aspects through a series of "exclusions".
(3) Instead the government insists that the sparse legislative agenda reflected a streamlining of government priorities to help it better cope with the downturn.
(4) Streamlines are determined by numerical solving of the system of equations defining the current function.
(5) The chancellor also said that the sometimes bewildering array of initiatives already in existence for small firms would be streamlined under the banner of UK Finance for Growth, which will oversee the existing £4bn of schemes.
(6) But the commission called on Spain to streamline border crossings by expanding the infrastructure, and demanded both countries work together more to combat cigarette smuggling, with the UK asked to share more intelligence on the issue with Spain .
(7) A biological process serves as a source and its products are subject t] local dispersive fluid forces constrained by chaotic streamlines.
(8) On Tuesday the National Audit Office (NAO) published a report on financial management at the BBC saying the corporation should do more to streamline internal financial reporting, and monitor more closely whether its spending decisions were aligned with its strategic and editorial objectives.
(9) Abbott says he was streamlining programs and the changes would ensure good outcomes for indigenous people.
(10) Bailey said the company's reporting lines would be streamlined into three areas – product, regions, and operations and finance.
(11) Until we streamline the process and end the tick-box culture, we will continue to put off investors."
(12) I kind of get why this government has sought to streamline 150 Aboriginal programs down to just five broad-based program areas, yet there is room to question some areas of policy contradiction.
(13) We believe this device is a real breakthrough in streamlining orthotopic liver transplantation.
(14) We urgently need a new, streamlined process that gives all EU nationals who have made the UK their home an easy route to permanent residency.
(15) The Coalition argues environmental approvals need to be streamlined into a “one-stop shop”, while opponents claim the states cannot be trusted to safeguard the environment without federal oversight.
(16) And if a smaller, streamlined eurozone failed to materialise, the party has dared to suggest Germany would be better off out of it.
(17) There was the "modern military" trend, which featured a streamlined Victoria-Beckham-like dress.
(18) This, also, is a didactic music workshop with a difference - part of an umbrella programme called Discovery, established 20 years ago by the LSO as the orchestra's outreach wing, with a mission not unlike that of Venezuela's Sistema, but streamlined over two decades for application to home ground.
(19) Even as Germany and Austria have moved in recent days to streamline the movement of refugees from Hungary towards western Europe, people smugglers have found brisk business in helping desperate refugees circumnavigate a European asylum system that seems as weighted against them as ever.
(20) On Saturday, News Corp Australia reported that working groups would be shut down and expensive agencies dismantled in a bid to streamline the public service, saving more than $500m over four years and taking staff numbers back to the levels of seven years ago.