Sentence examples for major legacy from inspiring English sources

Republicans need a veto-busting majority of votes in order to frustrate what could be a major legacy for the two-term president.

BEN GREENMAN: What is William Rehnquist's major legacy?

Buddy Holly left the world with a major legacy.

Bannister's own major legacy was the setting up of a properly funded pension scheme for cricketers.

That became the major legacy of Mr. Simon's era at the committee.

The hitting-home of this revised world order, I would argue, is 2014's major legacy.

The Ḥafṣid dynasty left several major legacies.

The major legacies of his reign were a unified Iran and a dynasty that ruled it until 1925.

"It's looking more and more likely that one of their major legacies could be to make the military more family friendly," said Loren Thompson, chief operating officer for the Lexington Institute, a military policy group.

But in fact, the debate in Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, No. 01-1368, appeared to be less over facts and figures than over what the court most needed to say at this point in the evolution of the federalism revolution that is certain to be considered one of the Rehnquist court's major legacies.

President Felipe Calderón of Mexico and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada lent their weight to what has been something of a lonely campaign by the president as he has traveled the country to make pro-trade speeches and angry statements about the "petty politics" that he sees threatening one of his administration's major legacies.