Sentence examples for use of milestone from inspiring English sources

Returns from biotech startup M&A exits are also hard to pin down because of the widespread use of milestone payments.

(Note the use above of milestone, so richly connotative of achievement and accomplishment).

Maybe because I am used to milestones of sobriety being in days, months and now years for me -- to see it in hours was eye-opening.

These responses were excluded from the analyses to allow for exact ages to be used rather than qualitative estimations of milestone achievement.

But Connery's jump from a helicopter without the use of a parachute is a milestone.

Advocates said the F.D.A.'s use of this authority was a milestone.

Johannesburg, 21 November 2015 - Using the milestone of twenty years in the music business, UNICEF Celebrity Advocate Tshedi Mholo spoke passionately about her work with the organisation.

UNICEF Celebrity Advocate Tshedi Mholo celebrates 20 years in music 21 November 2015 - Using the milestone of twenty years in the music business, UNICEF Celebrity Advocate Tshedi Mholo spoke passionately about her work with the organisation.

The case is a medical milestone, the first use of genetic testing to prevent an early onset form of Alzheimer's disease.

He called the President's June 4 speech in Cairo - which Guoping was able to download in Mandarin from the Department's website - "a milestone for the use of smart power".

In a milestone for commercial use of solar energy, the Fala DM Group, a direct-marketing company with offices in Farmingdale and Melville on Long Island, will install rooftop photovoltaic systems this summer to produce 1.5 megawatts of electricity and reduce the company's energy costs by nearly one-fifth, Gov. George E. Pataki of New York said Sunday.