Sentence examples for historic pick from inspiring English sources
"The pick is a historic pick, and you want to leverage something like this as much as you can".
Chosen by Mr. McCain's campaign strategists as a cynical rejoinder to the ill-starred presidential bid of Hillary Clinton, Governor Palin was a historic pick: the second woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket and the first Republican woman in history to do so.
Obama made a historic pick and stood by her, and Sotomayor will bring great distinction and -- yes -- empathy to the Court.
But in an election where the economy is puzzling and the electorate is at wild extremes, an historic VP pick might well matter.
They also know their party has a historic opportunity to pick up disaffected Republicans and moderates, so long as they don't blow it by drifting into cuckoo land.
The MP for Brighton Pavilion, so far the Greens' only representative at Westminster, is remaining in Parliament, but is stepping down from the separate job of party leader to allow other Green voices to be heard in the run-up to the next general election, when some observers think the Greens have a historic opportunity to pick up the votes of disaffected Liberal Democrat voters.
We need to see all the parties help deliver this historic agreement, not pick it apart.
The only possible way his ticket could be "historic" is to pick as a junior partner a black woman.
Like many Democratic Party activists, San Francisco lawyer and Beyond Chron blogger Paul Hogarth had hopes that last year's state legislative redistricting would give California Democrats "an historic opportunity to pick up seats in November and win a two-thirds majority that would make Republicans irrelevant".
I had the rather less historic duty of picking my son up from childcare at 5 p.m.
"Whether I run or not, I'm going to be judged by what's happened over the last two years," Mr. Steele told reporters last week, arguing that the party's early investments in important states and races helped Republicans reach their historic victory of picking up at least 60 House seats.
