This mixed economy model was the crowning achievement of the twentieth century.

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

The crowning glory was in 2007, when I received this country's fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, for my contribution to art.

The epic Seerapuranam by Umaru Pulavar is dated to the 17th century and still considered as the crowning achievement of Tamil Muslim literature.

Oslo could have deferred to custom by crowning Béji Caïd Essebi and Rachid Ghanouchi for having averted the expected calamity by uniting fire and water.

A powerful lobbying effort included millions of dollars spent to support passage of one of the crowning achievements of Bush s foreign policy the United States India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement.

You suddenly realize that consciousness which we value and we consider the crowning achievement of nature, human consciousness is really just another set of tools for getting along in the world.

The UN, NATO, the IMF and the World Bank, the law of nations and international criminal law, even today s free and united Europe all are crowning achievements of US foreign policy.

As Francis Fukuyama has pointed out, the development of a capable state that is accountable and ruled by law is one of the crowning achievements of human civilization. It involves the creation of a shared sense of us, an imagined community on whose behalf the state acts.