Sentence examples for a historic act from inspiring English sources
The timing of this book – and its postscript – is a historic act of treachery to his party.
In a historic act of defiance, and with the forces of progress vanquished and in full retreat around him, Satiacum cast his vote for indigenous elder, activist and leader Faith Spotted Eagle.
Although Weidman has Hinckley referring to the shooting as a "historic act," he misses the more piquant point that for the real Hinckley the assassination was a first step into show business.
In 1984 these two leaders, in a historic act of Franco-German reconciliation, walked hand in hand across the battlefield that had been a killing ground for so many young men from both countries.Many of the European Union's most ardent supporters still see the EU as a crucial bulwark against the return of war to Europe.
I know when he's older and has free access to the Internet, the day will come when he will peer into Google and learn that his mother, the woman who insists he brush his teeth and eat one more bite of broccoli and put his shoes away, was also witness to a historic act of warfare.
Addie?" With Mrs. Rudolph's account here today of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, prosecutors rested their case in the state murder trial of Bobby Frank Cherry, the 71-year-old white supremacist who is believed to be the last living suspect in a historic act of evil.
"To negotiate a peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, this would be an historic act," Hollande says.
As far as he is concerned, speeches are an historic act, they go down in history, they decide history, they mark territory.
This was an historic act of conciliation, as Garang and the rebel groups had been telling the oil companies to leave for years.
Appointing Yellen — the first woman Fed chair, and one with utterly unquestioned credentials — would be an evidently historic act.
A nonpracticing lawyer (he teaches and has written two books on gay rights and the law), Mr. Pinello, 58, is the midlife zealot who, alongside the male partner he desperately wants to marry, committed a much-publicized, locally historic act of civil disobedience April 28.
