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Minority House leader Nancy Pelosi said the legislation sent from the Senate represented a "historic" bi-partisan compromise.

On Tuesday, Richard A. Boucher, the State Department spokesman, said the plan represented "a historic opportunity to move forward" toward a Palestinian state living in peace with Israel.

Global Financial Integrity president Raymond Baker said the report represented a historic moment in the effort to fight Africa's "most pernicious economic problem".

The statement was taken as a blithe reassurance that, in the words of a Slate headline, "Jews Can Go to Heaven," but in fact it represented a historic shift, with implications as much for politics as for religion.

The long-running debt debacle left Greece on the brink of financial collapse, worsening recent years of wrenching austerity, and represented a historic blow to a Europe committed to the irreversibility of its 16-year-old single currency.

HAVANA — Fidel Castro, bedridden for 19 months, on Tuesday gave up the almost unlimited power he has wielded in Cuba for nearly 50 years, but whether the surprise announcement represented a historic change or a symbolic political maneuver remained unclear.

Yet the handshake represented an historic shift in Spain's attitude to Gibraltar.

Adebayor is hurting after the defeat to Burkina Faso, even if Togo's progress to the quarter-final represented an historic achievement.

The tax cuts passed last year represented an historic gift to the super-rich, and are sure to explode income inequality.

The two days of meetings, held with the support of the Cuban government, represented an historic milestone.

The 50 50 split itself represents a historic gain by Republicans.