Definition of "modernizers" [modernizers]

• Plural form of modernizer. (noun)

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• "First, its clear that, like on the war, government officials did mislead us, from original deregulators in the Carter-Reagan years to the financial "modernizers" of the Clinton-Bush 2 era with their refusal to accept responsibility for the consequences of their free market fantasies, the gutting of rules and regulations and embrace of a phony "ownership society.""
• "Politically, all are on the center-left, and all "modernizers," even if Jospin doesn't like the Third Way/Neue Mitte rhetoric of Blair and Schroder."
• "Lewis concludes that the West has a duty to aid those who want to bring real democratic reform to the Middle East, and to make sure their attempts don't fail like those of past "modernizers":"