Sentence examples for Economic milestones from inspiring English sources

THIS month America will reach two economic milestones.

There are no significant social or economic milestones to explain this.

If so, the news is likely to be cheered by George Osborne as another of the economic "milestones" he has taken great pleasure in marking over recent weeks.

While the world is preoccupied with global terrorism and economic problems, China has been emboldened by its rise and the media hype over all of its economic milestones (nobody talks about per capita figures, where China would flunk miserably).

Osborne said: "In a week of economic milestones, today we learn that January saw the largest monthly surplus in the public finances since the crisis, putting us on track to meet our borrowing forecasts and halve the deficit as a share of GDP this year".

As suppressing student debt continues to linger over their heads, long-standing social and economic milestones like marriage, family and home ownership are deliberately delayed, defining a new subset of "not-quite-a-grownup" post-graduate life stage.

Mr. Netanyahu said the proposals were a social and economic milestone for Israel, and he suggested that the defense establishment could be run with more efficiency and transparency.

For Taiwan, the run on rice wine is a reminder that not only China is on the verge of an economic milestone.

Mr Osborne hailed the latest employment figures, claiming they marked another "economic milestone" and "confirmed a new record high employment rate, alongside a claimant count that has not been lower since 1975".

This staggering economic milestone marks a momentous victory for the top 1percentt over two generations of students and families.

The autumn statement long ago became a wholly political confection, not a serious economic policy milestone.