Sentence examples for open a historic from inspiring English sources

But just because it is easy with hindsight to condemn or mock the excesses of the time doesn't mean our parents and grandparents weren't right to be nervous – or even that the often-brutal suppression of the Malayan insurgency didn't do modern Malaysia, conspicuously prosperous and relatively open, a historic favour.

The City Council on Tuesday called on the U.S. Postal Service to keep open a historic downtown post office that is at risk of closure.

Although Macron achieved a clear win over Marine Le Pen, the spectre of the Front National remains in the background, strengthening his hand as he hopes to open an historic window to revive some of these plans, such as an EU finance ministry, an EU budget for social issues and pan-European social insurance.

He also opened a historic hallway outside the governor's office that Gov. George E. Pataki had closed off to the public.

Mr. Lauren opened a historic town house store, restored to its original gilded and frescoed glory, on Paris's Left Bank last week.

Chinese leaders were rattled by the flurry of American initiatives during the president's trip, which also included reaffirming an alliance with the Philippines, opening a historic diplomatic channel to Myanmar and agreeing to deploy 2,500 Marines to Australia.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) opened a historic hearing, in which a woman would be forced to relive an alleged sexual assault for the world, by lamenting that Democrats made the allegations public so late in the game.

Gustu, however, was still without a home; a plan to open in a historic building had fallen through.

Serena Williams heads to New York this month for the U.S. Open on a historic roll.

Meanwhile, two liberal members of the U.S. Supreme Court, Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also signaled they would be open for a historic challenge to capital punishment.

Backers call the European Citizens' Initiative, which opened April 1, a historic step toward more participatory democracy.