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landmark English

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landmark

A landmark is a large object used to know where one is. Big Ben is a landmark in London.

landmark

the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape the church steeple provided a convenient landmark (= watershed) an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend the agreement was a watershed in the history of both nations a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken

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Simple sentences

This event can be called a new landmark of information cooperation between China and Kazakhstan.

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Even in a period replete with developments of climactic significance the parley is a major landmark.
Not a blasted thing, not a landmark in sight.
I seemed to be familiar with every landmark.
I was using a big black rock as a landmark, but when I swam back, the rock was gone.
I didn't know your address, but I had a landmark.
Sooner or later, we're going to have to find a landmark and go v.f.r.
Wouldnt you like to go to another local landmark?
If he knew me here, in the landmark of a despot!
We just have to pick up a landmark.
We'll pick up a landmark right in the kisser.
On my left, landmark number seven.
This magnificent building represents yet another landmark.. ina longsuccessionoflandmarksforthisgreatcity.
It's a landmark building.
A little familiar landmark of some sort.
You got to remember every landmark.
Tonight's a landmark.
I don't know what I'll do to him yet, but I want it to be a landmark.
Our good friends, the Daughters of the Buccaneers, took over this old ruin many years ago and turned it into a cultural landmark.
This magnificent building represents yet another landmark.
Well, good Lord, you could fix it up and keep it as a landmark.
The first landmark is that last pole.
Well, I couldn't mail it. I didn't know your address, but I had a landmark.
We're talking about Harrington House, which is a landmark in this town. and I intend to see that it stays that way.
Any deviation from it is dangerous. The first landmark is that last pole.
Your acquaintance sometimes becomes like a landmark.
To declare Dorry's pub a landmark.
The house is landmark building.
That was a fucking Chicago landmark!
No, the island itself is a kind of landmark.
The icing on the cake would be that landmark status from the city.
In many human cultures, the 30th birthday is considered a landmark. It marks the end of youth and the beginning of the march into middle age.
It seems in order to live in an exclusive landmark building, one must be willing to sweat through the odd heat wave like a tortured character in a Tennessee Williams play.
Cameron Alexander, well, he's a Venice Beach landmark.
That's a Seattle landmark.

News and current affairs

Nigeria hosted two landmark summits, on malaria in 2000 and on AIDS in 2001, which were a crucial spur to action.
Tempo's case could become a landmark victory for our democracy, like the US Supreme Court's famous decision in The New York Times v. Sullivan.
In what could have been a landmark victory that would open the doors of opportunity for Europe's Roma, the Strasbourg Court instead chose to keep Roma locked out of a decent education.
Yet there have also been landmark successes.
In NAFTA at 20, a book that I edited, policymakers and scholars explain how the landmark trade treaty exemplifies the benefits of trade liberalization - and why political leaders should pursue it.
The last landmark in the Franco-German partnership was the Treaty of Maastricht, concluded in 1991.
In September, India adopted a landmark law on food security, guaranteeing five kilograms of subsidized wheat, rice, and other foodstuffs monthly for two-thirds of the population, and enhancing support for pregnant women, schoolchildren, and the elderly.
The birth of Louise Brown in 1978, and with her that of human in vitro fertilization (IVF), was a landmark in medical science.
BRUSSELS - 2009 is a landmark year for the European Union's role in the world.
Behind this landmark decision was a potential crisis.
What will this landmark change mean for prices of such assets as stocks and homes?
It was just a few months ago that this important but unloved institution, a landmark of post-war global economic arrangements, seemed destined to irrelevance.
Thirty-three years ago, Havel helped initiate Charter 77, the landmark document that crystallized the ideals of all the dissidents - and many others - trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
In fact, both sides fully honored the treaty, and it led to the landmark 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
MOSCOW - The German people, and the whole world alongside them, are celebrating a landmark date in history, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The momentum toward a nuclear-weapon-free world driven by US President Barack Obama's landmark 2009 speech in Prague, having faltered for the last few years, has now gone into sharp reverse.
Obama's ascension to the US presidency represents a revolutionary landmark in America's history that should not be allowed to fall victim to inflated expectations.
PARIS - European Union leaders concluded 2012 with a landmark agreement that places all eurozone banks under a single supervisor.
The landmark resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council encourages governments to give due consideration to the Principles and Guidelines in formulating policies.
Much of Thailand is now under an all-night curfew, imposed after radical Red Shirts set fire to more than 35 landmark buildings in Bangkok.
Cambodia insists that the disputed land has been under its territorial sovereignty since a landmark case decided by the International Court of Justice in 1962.
KATMANDU - Confounding everyone except themselves, Nepal's hard-line Maoists have taken a commanding role following the country's landmark elections.
This October, 128 leading experts in the fields of human rights and equality from 44 countries launched a landmark attempt to build on the epochal 1948 UN declaration to establish universal human equality.

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