landmark
地标,地界线,地界标,地标性建筑
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- : a prominent or conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide, especially to ships at sea or to travelers on a road; a distinguishing landscape feature marking a site or location: The post office served as a landmark for locating the street to turn down.
- : something used to mark the boundary of land.
- : a building or other place that is of outstanding historical, aesthetic, or cultural importance, often declared as such and given a special status , ordaining its preservation, by some authorizing organization.
- : a significant or historic event, juncture, achievement, etc.: The court decision stands as a landmark in constitutional law.
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- : to declare a landmark: a movement to landmark New York's older theaters.
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The only way landmark legislation gets passed is one party has enough votes to pass that by itself.
This landmark legislation went into effect July 1, making Virginia the first Southern state to enact comprehensive nondiscriminatory protections for the LGBTQ community.
For one, California last year adopted a landmark law, AB 392, that changed the standard for when police can use deadly force.
Additionally, have in the post references of national landmarks and hotspots.
Joe Kocurek, a spokesman for Weber, said the landmark law was intended to apply to all California police officers, including those working for local transit agencies.
The Supreme Court eventually stepped in and ended legal segregation in the landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education.
Thursday evening will prove to be a landmark night in TV history.
He was impressed by her landmark 2011 Human Rights Day speech linking fighting for gay rights to American foreign policy.
Of course, as Landmark notes, the procedure is not without risk.
Moreover, under Eric Holder the Justice Department has vigorously enforced the landmark Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.
But one would linger long on the way if hePg 83 paused at every landmark on the Southampton road.
And immediately the word bounty implanted itself in his mind as the first landmark of a marvelous story.
The thrilling of the frogs grew louder, and shortly she was at the old lightning oak that served her for a landmark.
It was obviously an industry-founder, a landmark invention on a par with the greatest, even in its incomplete condition.
Any way I looked I could see no break, no landmark, no trend of the land which could offer any sort of guidance.