| Alexander II realized that to modernize mean that Russia needed to westernize, so in 1861 he emancipated the serfs from bondage. |
| But at a time when even a poor country can morph, in the blink of an eye, into an industrialised one, what really matters is not whether a state is westernized, but whether it wants to westernize. |
| For example, an AN-70 is an aircraft currently under prototyping, and it could meet our needs if we could westernize it. |
| He decided to westernize his name after moving from Japan to Canada. |
| Peter attempted to modernize and westernize the country militarily, administratively, economically, and culturally, often through the use of force. |
| In the early 1800s, Alexander I began to carry out further plans to westernize the government by attempting to create a Duma, or representative body. |
