Mr. Biden says his proudest accomplishments, besides the rejection of Mr. Bork, have been the passage of the 1994 crime bill and the Violence Against Women Act in the same year, and prodding President Bill Clinton to act to stop the slaughter in the Balkans in 1993 and 1994.
By most accounts, he has been at best a mediocre mayor, with few real accomplishments besides keeping police chief Bill Bratton, a man appointed by his predecessor.
I sent a note to Jim Billimoria, a spokesman for Shuster's committee, and asked for a list of its legislative accomplishments, besides the ones reported in the news recently.
He has stayed away from the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., he said, because he represented team play, not individual accomplishment — and besides, he recalled, he was denied an individual honor while in college.
That's a remarkable accomplishment, we know, especially when not a thing you see or touch (maybe besides the leather) comes from nature.
This week, besides the onslaught on parliament, they rioted in East Java leaving one demonstrator dead.Mr Wahid's biggest accomplishment this year has been to make Indonesia's shambolic and venal military seem patriotic.
"After the capture of Corinth a movable force of 80,000 men, besides enough to hold all the territory acquired, could have been set in motion for the accomplishment of any great campaign for the suppression of the rebellion.
Unfortunately "The Idiots," shot in smeary, hand-held digital video, has nothing on its mind besides the squirming discomfort of its audience, the achievement of which it holds up as a brave political accomplishment.
What an extraordinary accomplishment".
