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How to use the word historic in a Sentence?

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It is contrary to history to represent work for reforms as a long-drawn out revolution and revolution as a condensed series of reforms. A social transformation and a legislative reform do not differ according to their duration but according to their content. The secret of historic change through the utilisation of political power resides precisely in the transformation of simple quantitative modification into a new quality, or to speak more concretely, in the passage of an historic period from one given form of society to another.

Rosa Luxemburg

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Germany’s phase-out of nuclear power is a historic event and an overdue step in energy terms, it is high time that we leave the nuclear age behind and consistently organize the renewable age.

Simone Peter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know there’s historic, systemic, and just blatant racism that’s inherent in lending and banking. We have to start there and not tip-toe around it.

Joynicole Martinez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mike Pence had a chance to be great, he had a chance to be frankly historic, but Mike did not have the courage to act.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have major issues with barriers to passage in their historic habitat, with dams preventing them from utilizing hundreds of miles of it.

Jordan Traverso

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is one of the most extreme anti-transgender bills we’ve witnessed – even amid the historic wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation we’ve been fighting in states across the country over the last several years.

Troy Stevenson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We hope that the highest court in the world, the International Court of Justice, will hand down an opinion that will be greatly persuasive in terms of increasing domestic action and identifying what gaps in international law and domestic law that need to be filled, this will be the first time that this organ of the UN will actually have to address the climate crisis, and the legal obligations of states in that regard, so it is quite historic.

Ralph Regenvanu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The snow water equivalent in the snowpack that’s still on the ground is in the top 10 or 20% compared to historic years, so there’s really just quite a lot of snow water out there, with temperatures on the colder side for this winter, it hasn’t had a chance to melt out slowly yet.

Masha Hoy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Approximately 44% of the U.S. is at risk for flooding this spring, california’s historic snowpack, coupled with spring rain, is heightening the potential for spring floods.

Ed Clark

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The EPA action is a really important and historic step forward, while the proposed regulations only address a few PFAS, they are important marker chemicals. I think requiring water systems to test and treat for these six will actually do a lot to address other PFAS that are in the water as well.

Melanie Benesh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We find ourselves in Florida on the front lines in the battle for freedom, together, we have made Florida the nation’s most desired destination and we have produced historic results. But now’s not the time to rest on our laurels.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With the historic removal of guano,( the nests) are the next-best option to giving penguins that opportunity and ensuring the survival of those chicks and the fledglings.

Andrae Marais

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are fighting to create a big tourism complex, and also to open the line for international travel soon, the plans to revitalize the Canfranc station is the best way to recover all the historic buildings and infrastructure that haven’t been used since 1970.

Canfranc Fernando Sánchez Morales

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The plans to revitalize the Canfranc station is the best way to recover all the historic buildings and infrastructure that haven’t been used since 1970.

Campo Fraile

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The juxtaposition of our friendly visitor and galaxies hundreds of millions of light-years away really conveys how enormous our universe is, this comet started its journey in the most distant parts of our Solar System and may even leave the Solar System entirely after this visit, so capturing this historic event has been extraordinary.

Imran Sultan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This comet started its journey in the most distant parts of our Solar System and may even leave the Solar System entirely after this visit, so capturing this historic event has been extraordinary.

Imran Sultan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Jalen and Patrick, they can do a lot of great things on the field in terms of throwing the football and being able to extend plays with their feet, it’s just awesome – having the first Super Bowl [with] two Black quarterbacks in is definitely a historic moment for sure.

Chicago Bears

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This will be a historic visit, after centuries of division, leaders of three different parts of (Christianity) are coming together in an unprecedented way.

Justin Welby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today – at the halfway point of this term for the President and Vice President – we celebrate not only WHAT was accomplished, but HOW it was accomplished: through teamwork, collaboration, mutual respect, and a lot of hard work. This team did so many historic things, and did them in historic fashion, as part of the most diverse and most talented White House staff ever.

Ron Klain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

President Biden has taken this matter seriously and shown leadership and respect for the law, which is what you want to see from a president, ultimately, everyday people are focused on the issues that impact their daily lives – cutting costs, adding jobs, and protecting basic freedoms like women’s health and voting rights – and that’s where the Biden administration has had historic success.

North Carolina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can’t just focus on electing women Republicans in swing seats. That’s why we had, you know, such a historic loss in 2018, as most of our women members were in those swing seats.

Elise Stefanik

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wanted to start off the new year at this historic project here in Ohio and Kentucky with a bipartisan group of officials because I believe it sends an important message to the entire country, we can work together. We can get things done. We can move the nation forward.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The House majority proved on their way out the door what we’ve known since day one — they put America last, from passing a $1.7 trillion spending bill that secures the borders of Middle East countries, but not our own, to two years of reckless spending that created historic inflation, liberal leaders in the House divided our Nation and put America on a path toward a recession that could very well cost millions of people their homes, their retirement, and their jobs.

Marc Lotter

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

2022 was the best year ever in the U.S. for action on climate, jobs, and justice, and a historic year for our democracy, lCV is extraordinarily proud of our advocacy work over the years to make this possible, including working in partnership with many other effective groups that advocate for climate action and protecting our democracy.

Emily Samsel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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