Sentence examples for marked a leap from inspiring English sources

The year 2012 marked a leap forward for animal welfare in the European Union.

Belle, dissing the local meathead and straining at the leash of her environment, marked a leap in Disney, when the role was sung by Paige O'Hara, in 1991, and the oomph of her carolling signalled her intent.

The arrests marked a leap forward in cooperation with the war crimes tribunal, whose requests were largely ignored by the former Croatian government of the late President Franjo Tudjman.

The figure marks a leap from two years ago, when around 59% of houses were worth a million or more, according to the study by Andy Yan, acting director of Simon Fraser University's City Program.

The release, which was co-produced by Brian Eno, marks a leap forward for the group, adding experimental textures, arrangements and structures to its music while retaining the sweeping melodies and soaring hooks at the heart of its enormous appeal.

On January 1 , 2004 the Real-Time Notifiable Infectious Disease ReputtintoSystem was puseinationwidetionwide, realizing the timely online monitoring of individual cases, which marks a leap in the surveillance of communicable diseases in China.

At the time, it must have marked a quantum leap forward: suddenly, space seemed credible.

Bob Dylan Three months before the march, Dylan had released his second album, "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," which marked a huge leap forward from his début the year before; Dylan wrote eleven of the thirteen songs on "Freewheelin".

The street gun battles sustained over weeks that accompanied the alliance's doomed 2004 attack on the Gulf cartel (and its enforcement wing made up of military deserters called the Zetas), in their stronghold in north-eastern Mexico in 2004 marked a qualitative leap in traditional Mexican cartel turf wars that had previously been largely confined to targeted hits.

"The Tenth Man" in 1959, a comedy set in an Orthodox synagogue, marked a great leap forward from the easy naturalism of the first Chayefsky theater work, "Middle of the Night," and displayed his gift for picturesque speech and penchant for themes of mysticism.

(Although the Athenian conception of democracy marked a historic leap forward in civic and political thinking, it is important to note that it did not extend to the enfranchisement of women or immigrants, much less the freeing of chattel slaves). Our emaciated modern conception of democracy makes it difficult to understand the richness of the original Athenian concept.