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milestone English

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What does milestone mean?
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milestone

A milestone is an important step on the way to a larger goal. It was an important milestone for the project.

milestone

stone post at side of a road to show distances a significant event in your life (or in a project)

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Simple sentences

That day was an important milestone in our project.

Movie subtitles

And two things together. that's a milestone.
Grand opening of the Jett Rink Airport and Emperador Hotel. is the latest milestone in the dramatic life of this virile son of Texas.
Sylvia, the time has returned. A new milestone was reached.
I'll be informed. if the train is not on time. We'll stop the train at milestone 721.
You know, Mr. Wilson, you represent something of a milestone around here.
Each day is a milestone.
There is no doubt that the first American in space, on February 20, was a milestone in space exploration.
Well, go on, drink, for Christ sakes, it's a milestone in your career.
This is really a milestone. You can not imagine what this means.
It is a milestone, Tish.
I'd guess you've got a milestone creeping up on you.
You know when the trial started for the Family, it was really the milestone in the death of the Hippie Movement, everyone really thinks Patty Hearst.
Another television milestone straight ahead.
The satellite which the Russians have dubbed Sputnik. is being hailed as a milestone in history.
Edeson and director Lewis Milestone for All Quiet on the Western Front, in 1930, liberated the camera from the cumbersome booths that had been used to muffle noise when sound was introduced in the late 1920s.
I'm just a milestone around your neck. Millstone.
Can you put on Milestone for me, sir? - Of course.
Serling. Next week onthe twilight zone, we bring to the television cameras a most unique gentlemen whose own very special brand of clownship has long ago become a milestone in american humor.
We'll stop the train at milestone 721.
It seems now, in recollection, that one of the milestone events of my 19th year followed the appearance in our community of something decidedly different.
Jason didn't get rich from that dance at Godsey's Hall, but it did provide an unforgettable milestone in our memories of those lean but wonderful years.
This is a milestone in your career.
It is a milestone in cosmetic surgery.
Certainly the '30s and '40s produced some milestone films.
Another major milestone in your life, your first day of preschool.
It's a milestone.
Another television milestone. It has been a singular honor and a pleasure.
In that capacity you have reached a milestone.
I remember this milestone.
If you are on your own, cut a willow bough. and hit a milestone till the evil passes,. till the Redeemer comes.
Men, animals, plants all feel,. but the milestone cannot feel.
A matter of great importance in our family, a milestone.
One month is a milestone.
Here's to your milestone.
That's quite a milestone.
So who's in this cinematic milestone?
A milestone in Hungarian sport eating!

News and current affairs

This is indeed a milestone.
This year, our industry reached an important milestone.
The recent elections were a milestone in the country's long and very hard road.
Iran is surely his finest moment, a historic milestone that demands full-throated approval.
The agreement constitutes an important political and diplomatic milestone, and it contains more detail and is broader in scope than many anticipated.
The indictment of al-Bashir, who is as entitled to the presumption of innocence as any other defendant, is another important milestone on the long road that must be traveled to reach the goal that the world set for itself.
June, it turns out, marks another milestone on the alliance's uncertain path: its operation in Libya has now surpassed in length the one in Kosovo 12 years ago.
The recent law is a milestone in this process, but by no means the end point.
As always happens whenever we approach such a milestone, this one has produced a spike in conferences, seminars, and learned articles, including the usual dire Malthusian predictions.
Reversing the verdict on June 4, 1989, will not only be a milestone towards establishing democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in China, it will be a global victory for human peace and justice.
Ending polio will be a key milestone on the path to realizing this vision.
Indeed, the year 2009 might even be a milestone marking a new era of volatility.
But it is a milestone, not a turning point, in what remains an ongoing struggle with no foreseeable end.
So if Villalobos and Dieterich are right about the FARC's imminent collapse, it would be a veritable milestone for the region, and a vindication of a strategy - Uribe's - of which many of us were wary.
The Security Council's decision to refer the situation in Darfur to the ICC prosecutor in March 2005 was itself a major milestone in the battle against impunity.
Sometimes this is presented as another milestone demonstrating that the crisis is near its end.
The second milestone is a better global financial system.
The third milestone relates to the quality and inclusiveness of growth.
The many other Africans who lament their nations' flagging democratic transitions would do well to draw strength from Kenya's milestone.
The passage of the Dodd-Frank Act by Congress represents a significant milestone in the reform of the US financial sector.
Initially signed in July 2005, the agreement is a major milestone in the growing partnership between the world's oldest and largest democracies.
The constitutional process now under way in Iraq represents a hopeful milestone for all Iraqis.

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