Sentence examples for historic transfer from inspiring English sources

As Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) engaged in a historic transfer of power in the Myanmar capital of Naypyidaw in March, my Burmese colleagues and I stood on a deserted beach 170 miles to the southwest, near Gwa on the Rakhine coast.

But there can be no doubt, with this historic transfer of power today, that the very principles upon which our constitution, our laws and our system of government are built are far stronger and far greater than the frailties and failures of any one individual or group of people.

"In a positive and transparent election, the Georgian people have confirmed last year's historic transfer of power," João Soares, who led a delegation of short-term observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said at a news conference.

A historic transfer of wealth is under way.

In the Oct. 5 issue of FORBES GLOBAL, I wrote: "A historic transfer of wealth is under way.

He was loaned out by Brentford on seven occasions and he joined the last of these, Ebbsfleet United, permanently in 2009 in a historic transfer.

The evolution of the most historic baseball transfer since the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919 and begat the so-called "Curse of the Bambino" began in unlikely circumstances.

In Georgia, what was considered a historic democratic transfer of power has been potentially jeopardized by what some regard as politically motivated prosecutions of former ruling party officials.

The Lord Chancellor's Advisory Council, which reviews historic file transfers to Britain's archives, has approved a one-year legal retention, which will allow the FCO to hold the 170,000 files while it plans for their release.

In her testimony, the Tribal Council's chairwoman, Bonita Cleveland, told lawmakers that the "only hope" the tribe had to get more land was a bill, introduced earlier this year, that would transfer "historic Quileute lands held by the federal government" back to the tribe.

An experiment without historic precedent, the transfer of Hong Kong's sovereignty while keeping its unique way of life, has come off so far.What has not changed in the "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region" (SAR) of China is more obvious than what has.