Sentence examples for passed milestone from inspiring English sources

As the returns became known, and Mr. Obama passed milestone after milestone —Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Iowa and New Mexico — people rolled spontaneously into the streets to celebrate what many described, with perhaps overstated if understandable exhilaration, a new era in a country where just 143 years ago, Mr. Obama, as a black man, could have been owned as a slave.

With quiet confidence, City's manager, Phil Brown, said: "We've passed milestones a number of times this season.

With each passing milestone, Clemens keeps a memento, whether it is the record-setting ball, a uniform, a hat, a glove or spikes.

"We shouldn't pay people for passing milestones," she said.

Johanna Konta is passing milestones with her every victory here at the Australian Open but the 24-year-old is determined to keep her feet on the ground.

Roger Federer seems to pass milestones as routinely as he passes opponents at the net and the 30-year-old Swiss ended his 13th full season on the tour here yesterday in the way that he knows best.

I do not want her to pass milestones that are symbols of growing up.

Most patients had passed >1 milestone; we could therefore either analyse the timing of the last milestone reached or the timing of every milestone reached.

Sachin Tendulkar passed that milestone in April.

The Dow passed the milestone again this week.

Around 1.8 million years ago, human evolution passed a milestone.