It has been 15 years of wanton success, a milestone that feels like it went curiously unmarked in the summer: five league titles, five FA Cups, three League Cups, a Europa League and, most impressively of all, a bled-for Champions League, London's first win in the competition.
Athletes often count success by milestones.
It was "a milestone success and sets a sound foundation for continued missions", Wu said.
The HDP's historic success represented a milestone in Turkey's relationship with its Kurds and suggested that the country and its Kurdish issue was moving forward.
For the chancellor, George Osborne, to claim this as evidence of economic success – "a major milestone in our recovery", he told BBC Radio 4 today – is not really credible.
And somehow, the rebirth of the talks, with no guarantees of any greater success, underscored a milestone in Middle East history that got lost in the brief pronouncement of failure.
And in cases where we achieve success against our milestones, we expand our investments," said Patrick Pichette Google's chief financial officer, citing Google Fiber as one recent example of this.
"In our programme we measure progress and success by incremental milestones," explained Alan Lindenmoyer, the manager of Nasa's Commercial Crew and Cargo Programme.
So far, researches on path planning have been achieved several milestone successes in industrial applications as well as in academic disciplines, including applications in mobile robot/vehicle and aerospace.
And because we're bred to mark the success of familiar milestones like weddings and births, those beautiful rituals often dominate the catch-up conversation.
