Sentence examples for lasting achievement from inspiring English sources

The man who was Britain's Prime Minister in 1945-51 may have been unexciting but he was an effective team leader whose government achieved an enviable record of lasting achievement.

Mo Mowlam did have one lasting achievement in Northern Ireland, however - she had the ability to infuriate both extremes on either side of the sectarian divide.

At a critical moment in our history, Clinton-Obama would not just be winning an election, but structuring a government capable of lasting achievement and of actually realizing the hopes of average citizens.

Last year, Kreps was awarded the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics for his lasting achievement and work in the field of economics, and with Stanford professors Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, the John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, which recognizes major advances in game theory, and how it could be applied to problems in business, economics, politics, and other areas.

Consider: you can work all day in a flurry of frenetic activity, only to achieve very little, especially when it's assessed in terms of a lasting achievement.

This is his great and lasting achievement.

But for now, Mr. Levine's anniversary is a time to wish him well in his recovery and salute his lasting achievements.

As Secretary of State, she clocked up a lot of air miles, but her list of lasting achievements wasn't particularly long.

Among the lasting achievements of his pontificate were the publication of the third part of the Corpus Juris Canonici, the Liber Sextus, and the institution of the Jubilee of 1300, the first Holy Year.

Their administrative, educational, and financial measures and the formation of the Civil Guard were lasting achievements; however, the generals could not stabilize their rule on the basis of their constitution of 1845, a conservative revision of the constitution of 1837.

Yet while the technical splendor of his songwriting was one of the Beach Boys' lasting achievements — one that echoes down through generations of tuneful studio experimenters — this wasn't a concert to get too technical about.