Sentence examples for historic progress from inspiring English sources

Both California and China have made historic progress.

"Human rights in China has made historic progress in the last few decades," Mr. Cui said.

Mr. Sarkozy said Mr. Assad's agreement "to open diplomatic representation in Lebanon is historic progress".

But the White House said lawmakers had already made historic progress.

2. When we last met, we noted the historic progress represented by the IRA statement of July 2005.

The riff was a gesture both joyful and wary, a recognition of historic progress and a reminder that the day of post-racial utopia had yet to come.

As the field of historic preservation progressed, those involved came to realize that the structures acting as "buffer zones" were actually key elements of the historic integrity of larger, landmark sites.

It asserts that supernaturalism is based upon ignorance and assails it as the historic enemy of progress".

The story of Turkey is fast becoming a heartbreaking saga of a budding Muslim democracy tossing out a historic chance at progress, only to settle for a familiar pattern of Middle East despotism by succumbing to a retro personality cult.

The signatories, who included Lord Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, and Ian McEwan, the author and winner of the Booker prize, argued that Britain was "closer than ever" to a historic change after progress in the House of Lords on a bill tabled by Lord Falconer, the former lord chancellor.

"This is not the first time that we have seen discriminatory responses to historic moments of progress for our nation," Lynch said.