This year the percentage of China's population of working age people (15 to 64) peaks at 71.9 percent, the culmination of a steady rise over 30 years.
It is the culmination of a steady shift in the way most poor Americans receive their health-care treatment.Medicaid is America's single biggest health programme.
The indictment this week of Mr. Lay, the company's former chairman and chief executive, was the culmination of a steady march up the ladder of Enron's management.
And the holiday's demise as a no-shopping interlude is the culmination of a steady retreat from pervasive blue laws that once banned shopping not only on Thanksgiving and other major holidays but also on Sundays.
Collins' announcement, says Jim Buzinski, co-founder of OutSports, a website devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) athletics, is the culmination of a slow, steady march towards acceptance.
Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian Church Synaxarion represented the logical culmination of a long and steady development of what is today called the cult of the saints.
Today's success by Max Mosley in his privacy action against the News of the World represents the culmination of nearly a decade of steady development of privacy law in this country.
And it's a culmination of everything I've done so everything feels quite steady.
That period represents the culmination of a long 30 year exercise in political obtuseness that has seen a steady estrangement from the party's roots and a fatal mimicking of their Republican rivals.
Then, throughout the elected candidate's first term, his/her efforts are a culmination of their attempts at "making good" on their ambitious campaign promises while further attempting to keep things steady so as to secure their chances of re-election.
The culmination came Saturday.
