Sentence examples for human milestones from inspiring English sources

The story of 20th-century physics is one of the great human milestones, ranking alongside the birth of agriculture, Greek democracy, the Renaissance; but it is besmirched by the way that it debouched into the nuclear nightmare of the Cold War.

Few spots have borne witness to such important human milestones as the Kennedy Space Center, including the Apollo missions, the Viking and Voyager interplanetary rockets, Space Shuttle launches and the Challenger tragedy.

For reaching a human milestone, I am given five credit card gift certificates, imprinted with numbers, each containing a different amount of money.

At the same time, the aptly titled 'Beginners,' which tells a story of a young love reaching its inevitable and heartbreaking conclusion, could only be told by someone in the midst of reaching this universally-human milestone.

"Every movement has its human rights milestones," said John Fisher, director of advocacy for Égale Canada, a group that has been working for same-sex marriage in the courts.

Rick Allen is the CEO of SnagFilms, which offers free viewing of documentaries, including those about the human rights milestones described above.

They took part in group discussions on simple hygiene practices to prevent diseases and on important human rights milestones since the creation of the DAC in 1990.

This is evident in the telescoping timelines of human development milestones, from a ten thousandth year lapse for the onset of the agricultural revolution, to a four hundredth year lapse for the scientific revolution and then a one hundredth year lapse for the industrial revolution.

I believe it is because human beings need milestones in order to punctuate life.

One limitation of this methodology is the fact that although several popular gene variants collections are ongoing (dbSNP has recently passed the 12 million unique human gene variant milestone), a relatively small number of clinically curated and authoritative gene-disease collections exist as used for diagnostic purposes.

We like to think of our architectural treasures as milestones of human progress.