"But I do think this is an important and historic step forward - the public health issue has now been spoken to."

It is true that Afghanistan has taken historic steps toward democracy.

Such a change would be a historic step for the bureau.

The Bush administration called the withdrawal plan "a courageous and historic step."

The directive finally agreed today, is a historic step forward in that campaign.

We can describe it as an almost historic step, which is, at any rate, certainly important.

We have heard here what an historic step forward this is.

We have an opportunity to take this historic step with the environment.

But he called the overall legislation "a historic step forward for voting rights."

This experiment was a historic step on the long road to integration.