historic achievement
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhistoricandachievement
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historic
adjective
uk/hɪˈstɒr.ɪk/us/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪk/
important or likely to be important ...
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achievement
noun[C or U]
uk/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/us/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/
something very good and difficult that you have succeeded ...
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(Definition ofhistoricandachievementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is indeed such relevance in remembering how our constitution has evolved and thehistoricachievement.
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Here is anhistoricachievementwhich stands as a warning and a deterrent to any would-be aggressor in the future.
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As you are all aware, thishistoricachievementfollows much preparation.
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This is anhistoricachievementwhich constitutes a model of stability in the global system.
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If so, it will be anhistoricachievementfor the western governments and for our own people.
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We are within hours of thathistoricachievement, purely as a result of a piece of pragmatism.
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Such anhistoricachievementshould not go without salute.
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History highlights results, and four election victories out of five campaigns is ahistoricachievementby any standards.
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We should focus our attention on these priorities, and if we manage to realise them it will be anhistoricachievement.
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Indeed, getting the peace process off the ground in the first place was anhistoricachievementfor all concerned.
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The provision of the rule of law and democratic government, and a massive increase in prosperity for all the territories, was anhistoricachievement.
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That is a major andhistoricachievement, which we have no wish to reverse.
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Indeed, if it were possible to agree on such priorities it would be anhistoricachievement.
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Who, in the face of thathistoricachievement, could feel depressed or pessimistic about our future?
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Yesterday's signing of the transitional administrative law was a significanthistoricachievement.
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I add only that the children's tax credit brings with it the extremely negativehistoricachievement in our tax policy that it destroys the principle of independent taxation.
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That really is anhistoricachievement.
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This has been anhistoricachievementand, on the whole, likely to be the factor which keeps democracy going in this country when it is likely to die elsewhere.
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If they succeed, then we shall all be witnesses to anhistoricachievementwhich has defied the many courageous attempts that others have made down the years.
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It was anhistoricachievement.
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