Sentence examples for a durable legacy from inspiring English sources

The government has approved plans for a $30 billion public works project dubbed "Le Grand Paris," which President Nicolas Sarkozy hopes will prove a durable legacy of his leadership.

The longevity, racing successes and hot-rodder appeal of the first-generation, small-block V-8 — a high-revving 195-horsepower replacement for the tepid in-line 6 that had served the Corvette since its 1953 debut — created a durable legacy.

If he is to have any sort of durable legacy on pocketbook issues and if Democrats are to avoid a rout in the 2014 mid-term elections, Obama has to do better.

And yet the most durable legacy has to do with the more distant future, and the disappearance of an illusion about our loved ones, particularly our children.

By keeping waste local, it is perhaps the creativity and imagination that it stimulates that could turn out to be its longest lasting and durable legacy.

The Muslims in the southern islands resisted Spanish rule up to the 19th century, but Islām was weak in Luzon and the northern islands, and Legazpi and his chaplain, Andrés de Urdaneta, were able to lay the foundations for the conversion of the people to Christianity, which proved their most durable legacy.

Despite finding its conceptual style flawed, The Observers Steve Yates praised Jay-Z's reflections on fame and "the voracious capitalism (up- and downside), which is proving hip hop's most durable legacy", adding that "It's Jay-Z's and American Gangsters triumph that reflecting on his appetite seems to have reawakened it".

Japan's bubble left a lasting legacy.

Egypt left a lasting legacy.

One of Mr. Moynihan's more durable legacies began almost 40 years ago when he wrote a 15-page proposal that helped turn Pennsylvania Avenue, the main street of the nation's capital, into the grand boulevard it is today.

The Assembly's design for local government and administration proved to be one of the Revolution's most durable legacies.