Halberstam's wartime work will last not just because of its quality and its importance but because it established a new mode of journalism, one with which Americans are now so familiar that it's difficult to remember that someone had to invent it.
In picking a name, Mr. Kissin said, Guastavino's seemed a good choice because it established a connection with the site and also resonated with Quaglino's, the name of a Conran restaurant in London.
Nevertheless, its power was very limited, and, arguably, it was important chiefly because it established a tradition of religious coercion in the late medieval Western church that was inherited by both Catholics and Protestants in the 16th century.
The Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 was a blow to Northern Ireland's unionists, because it established a consultative role for the government of Ireland in the affairs of Northern Ireland through the Anglo-Irish Secretariat.
Jamestown becomes archetypal not because it laid the foundations for British influence on American political culture, eventually enshrining notions of rights and representation, but because it established a pattern of conflict with Indians and enslavement of Africans — something that is here homogenized into a more vague multicultural interaction.
Gmail has succeeded because it established a sense of respect for our private communications while at the same time providing context-sensitive information that could be useful.
| |} Prime Minister Obuchi was enthusiastic over the passage of the law because it established a "clear basis by written law" for use of the symbols.
This atlas became the de facto standard in early imaging research because it established a common (although unrepresentative) coordinate space and template.
In fact, Justice Stevens said, the election system itself was part of the constitutional problem "because it establishes an improper majoritarian election on religion" and "encourages divisiveness along religious lines".
