milestone

Example Sentences

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While Vietnam's law is a regulatory milestone, analysts said its impact would depend on how the government enforces it and on what guidance it issues on implementation.

From Barron's

The Daera minister Andrew Muir said the strategy marked an "important milestone" in protecting Northern Ireland's "outstanding" marine environment, and that it represented a wide range of habitats.

From BBC

With this approach, they found that well before the genome fully activates -- a milestone known as Zygotic Genome Activation -- an elaborate 3D scaffold of DNA is already taking shape.

From Science Daily

The plans have been in development ever since the vote to leave the EU and environmental campaigners said seeing them get passed was a "significant milestone".

From BBC

Barrett described the release of the beavers as an "important milestone" for the restoration project which she hoped would bring an "amazing transformation".

From BBC