Legacies of "second-class citizenship," he said, had been fought with voter registration drives that delivered "groundbreaking milestones for a country built by immigrants".
"Historic", "groundbreaking", "a milestone" – just some of the words the UN used to describe a blueprint that it said would forge "an enhanced global partnership that aims to foster universal, inclusive economic prosperity and improve people's wellbeing while protecting the environment".
Following two years of unprecedented legislative attacks on women's reproductive rights, the 2012 election will go down in history as a groundbreaking, glass-ceiling-smashing milestone for women.
On the "sweet" side, this year marks milestone anniversaries of several groundbreaking laws that support America's workers.
To cover also the origins of concepts and groundbreaking experiments in this research area milestones going back to 1950 are also reviewed.
To see someone who looked like me achieve such monumental milestones, such as successfully performing a groundbreaking surgery to separate conjoined twins, was simply awe-inspiring.
Thursday groundbreaking judgment in the case of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor represents a milestone for both international justice and gender justice.
The reopening of Alice Tully Hall in February was a milestone in the nearly $1 billion redevelopment project at Lincoln Center, 50 years after its groundbreaking.
