Extraordinary and transformative as these achievements are, it is hard to imagine them directly benefiting more than a minority - perhaps 5% - of the population.
Finally, I argue that nursing needs to be more open in celebrating our heroes and the transformative power of nursing achievements.
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During the show, Gethard spoke of how the phrase "Diddy Gethard" started off as a joke, but 13 transformative months later, represents the achievement of the impossible in the face of daunting and seemingly insurmountable odds.
Despite this, Johnny Depp, awarded with a Desert Palm achievement award for his transformative performance as crime boss Whitey Bulger in Black Mass, shied away from his prepared notes.
In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Michael Fried offers a transformative account of the artist's revolutionary achievement.
And while there have been improvements in the share of women in paid employment, and the number of female MPs has increased, it is safe to say the achievements have been far from transformative for women.
And while the perceived lack of intrinsic value of an art experience may underlie the proposed cuts, our achievements over the past four decades show that the transformative power of the arts makes adequate funding support of DCA both necessary and prudent".
He added that, for all their achievements, "they have had only a very limited transformative impact on our economy, and on our global presence and reputation".
I valued the UK's contributions and commitment to both these vital multilateral achievements, and continue to believe the country can play a transformative role in shaping the global climate agenda.
He received the Overseas Chinese Outstanding Achievement Medal (1996), the Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholars Career Development Award (2007), the CIMIT Young Clinician Research Award for Transformative Innovation in Healthcare Research (2010), and the NIH Director's New Innovator Award (2011).
