We have achieved the status of a minor party".
It's an evening that confirms Bond's 1973 play has achieved the status of a modern classic.
Kim Jong-un has not achieved the status of his father and grandfather as yet.
A vivid but secondary figure in his own time, Malcolm X had achieved the status of an icon.
When Blanchflower signed for Tottenham in 1954, Baker had already achieved the status of being the club's longest-serving player.
And there was much that was exceptional -- a dress made of molded cane on top and sculptured roses on the bottom -- achieved the status of art.
Being Edinburgh, the heated argument quickly achieved the status of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier's Thriller in Manila.
For a few years in the late nineteen-sixties and early seventies, Karlheinz Stockhausen, the German avant-garde composer, nearly achieved the status of a pop icon.
The current show is the latest evidence that, at least within the vernacular art world, he has achieved the status of old master.
Too many pundits and politicians lazily invoke the myth of overweening union power, which has achieved the status of an unassailable truth.
His garage is for his two "antique" cars, implying that the '66 has not achieved the status of his '29 Packard and '49 Crosley.
