Sentence examples for striking milestone from inspiring English sources

For a country that had once embraced communist "self-reliance", this was another striking milestone in its economic transformation.China's ministry of commerce, however, felt this mile had been mismeasured.

The two countries' deep, once troubled history, will pass another striking milestone when the Queen's eldest son - who is colonel-in-chief of the Parachute Regiment - meets Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Féin, who has always denied being a member of the IRA.

"It is a pretty striking milestone," Jens Manuel Krogstad, co-author of the Pew report, told VICE News.

What was striking about this latest milestone was what didn't happen: there was no shortage of oil, no sudden embargo, no exporter turning off its spigot.

The stock gains put Apple back within striking distance of $500 per share, a milestone it has recently hit and fallen back from a couple of times thanks to market reaction to new iPhone models.

The first few miles of the Appian Way outside Rome are flanked by a striking series of monuments, and there are also milestones and other inscriptions along the remains of the road.

They documented similarities for the two groups on language milestones and measures of language structure, but striking differences in the functional use of language (Cantwell et al. 1978).

The milestone, though anticipated for some time, is the most striking evidence yet that China's ascendance is for real and that the rest of the world will have to reckon with a new economic superpower.

The events of 1989 spurred a striking transformation of Europe, which is now whole and free, and a reunified Germany, milestones that are being observed with celebrations all over the continent, including a French-German extravaganza Monday evening on the Place de la Concorde.

But one of the most striking aspects of his visit to Croatia, where he arrived on Thursday to reach that travel milestone, has been its muted volume and modest scale, at least by the standard of many previous papal journeys.

Milestone after milestone has fallen.