Broadly, they say they hope for a church that more readily embraces modernity.

He thought Lebanon could again be a model of how Arabs can embrace modernity.

Yet it is a failure to embrace modernity that nearly kills the Professor and brings him to the realization of his need for change.

An artist from Quebec, she embraced modernity, even as she opened his eyes to color and organic forms.

"The whole country was embracing modernity at the time as a way of expressing participation in a new world, a free society," Mr. Quillen said.

Some came from middle-class households that embraced modernity.

The people of that world could strive to embrace modernity - or try to deny and destroy it.

Like many early European Documentalists, Briet embraced modernity and science.

These leaders, along with many others, sought to embrace "modernity" and nation, "freedom" (merdeka) and independence.

Urumqi, only 300 years old, is aggressively embracing modernity.