Sentence examples for constitutional milestone from inspiring English sources
But the vote, on whether more powers should be transferred to the Welsh Assembly, is a constitutional milestone, not only in Wales's own search for political identity but also in Britain's broader experiment with regional autonomy.
That year also marked what suffragists of the time thought would soon be another constitutional milestone, the Equal Rights Amendment.
The former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell, a QC, said: "The battle for the reporting of the proceedings of parliament was a historic milestone of constitutional significance.
At the same time this case law will be a milestone for constitutional challenges against similar surveillance conducted by EU member states.
"The constitutional process can set a milestone in this historic moment for our country, in the face of violence and the possibility of a return to authoritarianism," Cruz says.
Constitutional Commissions, 1987 Constitution.
Welcoming the long awaited Bill as "another exceptional milestone and imperative step towards realising children's constitutional rights," UNICEF observed that the continued realisation of the rights of children in South Africa was one of the most intractable challenges of the post-apartheid society.
While the State of Reconciliation in Australia Report remains optimistic citing milestones like Kevin Rudd's 2008 apology to the stolen generation and the ongoing constitutional recognition campaign as signs of progress it also makes clear that reconciliation in Australia is still a very theoretical thing.
It was of course a milestone for the LGBT equality movement when the Supreme Court ruled on Friday that marriage is a constitutional right for gays and lesbians.
The ruling was something of a milestone after decades of reports and findings by state commissions that New York's locally financed system for meeting the constitutional requirement to provide lawyers for indigent defendants, which varies greatly by county, is inadequate, with inattentive, unavailable, poorly trained and poorly supervised lawyers handling huge caseloads.
