Sentence examples similar to historic affairs from inspiring English sources

That made the public assembly on May 20th and 21st of some 160 delegates from Cuba's small opposition movement an historic affair.

Scottish Rugby director of commercial operations, communications and public affairs, Dominic McKay, said: "This will be a historic occasion for Glasgow Warriors and Scottish rugby and we're delighted the game will be shown live on BBC Alba and BBC Two Scotland on Saturday.

New Orleans has a historic love affair with death.

One of the few recent opinion polls on the subject, an online survey for a free newspaper, suggested that only 6% considered it an historic political affair: as many as 56% thought the trial would collapse without any sanctions.Even if Mr de Villepin is cleared, he has only the slimmest of chances of resurrecting his political career.

How long until America confronts its historic love affair with guns and violence and undergoes a healing process of first truth and then reconciliation about our profound crippling birth defects of slavery, Native American genocide, and exclusion of all women and non-propertied men from America's dream and electoral process?

It may be, for example, that for certain purposes an historic state of affairs involving a rose is sufficiently like standard situations involving red things as to warrant sameness of classification, while for different purposes its likeness is outweighed by its dissimilarities from the standard cases.

Recent Dutch impact assessments provide mostly qualitative information on potential effects of local climate change on health; quantitative information relates to the current and historic state of affairs regarding various health issues (e.g. trends in hay fever prevalence).

In an editorial published on Friday, the news portal Gazeta.ru called the Davydova affair "historic" and "a kind of sanity check on society".

Iran may not necessarily be unhappy to be uncoupled from Russia, a country it now sees as untrustworthy.An historic meddler in Iranian affairs, Russia had recently been Iran's main nuclear ally, only to disappoint its southern neighbour.

Washington Fajardo, who advises the mayor on urban affairs and historic preservation, showed me the stone wharf, for imperial and slave ships, that has recently been unearthed near Morro da Conceição and made into a heritage site.

He maintains in "The Seventh Decade" that the United States has launched a historic revolution in nuclear affairs, embracing a first-strike policy to combat proliferation, and pursuing new generations of nuclear weapons.