Events in Najaf threatened to overshadow the conference in Baghdad, attended by more than 1,100 delegates who had gathered to establish a new milestone in the country's troubled course to democracy.
Every time the Sands reaches another milestone, Mr. Goldstein said, his boss establishes a new, harder-to-reach goal.
The agreement also establishes a plan to remove 99% of the waste from the tanks and sets milestones for completing certain tasks.
Ditching the austerity approach is a risky but bold step that would certainly establish a major Miliband milestone on a journey in which he has already achieved creditable advances.
And to show progress, are they establishing a benchmark, an indicator or a milestone?
In January of 2015, we achieved a milestone; a formal agreement on establishing a new journal titled Data Science and Engineering was signed between CCF, Springer, and Nanjing Sinovatio Tech.
"The completion of the F.T.C. review represents a significant milestone in our efforts to establish a transformational business-to-business entity".
"It is a significant milestone on the way to our goal of establishing an arts district that will serve the neighborhood, Brooklyn and the whole city," he said.
Frances Katzen, a managing director of Prudential Douglas Elliman, described the conversion of the teachers' building as a milestone in establishing the avenue as a residential area, and said sales there had continued even through the economic slowdown.
The new consumer financial protection bureau established in the bill is a milestone, not only for its intent and power to rectify lending abuses, but because it will institutionalize the insight that the safety and soundness of banks cannot — and should not — be measured by profitability alone, but by the impact that bank practices ultimately may have on consumers.
The motion picture, a milestone in establishing the Western as an American art form, was a classic, winning three Academy Awards and featuring John Wayne in the principal role of the Ringo Kid, a young, good-natured outlaw with an easy sort of menacing grace.
