Monday was a milestone toward that target.
"The conclusion of demolition with the dropping of the water tower marks a historic milestone toward achieving our goal".
In awarding the Nobel Prize to Professor Huxley and Professor Hodgkin, the Karolinska Institute in Sweden called their discovery a "milestone" toward understanding electrical stimulation of nerve cells.
"This monetization of patents is another major milestone toward successful emergence," Antonio M. Perez, Kodak's chief executive, said in a news release.
The church's 265th pope, Benedict was the first German to hold the title in half a millennium, and his election was a milestone toward Germany's spiritual renewal 60 years after World War II and the Holocaust.
Harrison E. Salisbury, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Moscow for The New York Times in the 1950s, called the book "a milestone toward the understanding of three-quarters of a century of Russian trauma".
"This is another milestone toward completing a merger that brings together two unique airlines with complementary strengths that will offer unmatched global service," Richard H. Anderson, chief executive of Delta, said in a statement.
President Obama welcomed "adoption day", saying: "Today marks an important milestone toward preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and ensuring its nuclear programme is exclusively peaceful going forward".
The July 15 transfer of Camp Cropper, which had held many of what the United States military considered "high value" inmates, was considered yet another milestone toward full Iraqi sovereignty, just over a month before America is scheduled to withdraw the last of its combat troops.
