Значения термина milepost на английском

The letter from Mill was to him a white milepost.

Each major step was a milepost in the developing unity, strength and resolute will of the free nations.

It's on the milepost at the start and on the one at the end, but nobody refers to it by the official number.

Leaving the Temiscouata portage at the sixteenth milepost, a region positively mountainous is entered, which character continues to the sources of the Etchemin.

Down the stretch of years, past many an intervening milepost, it always stood clearly envisioned to its sons and daughters both natural and adopted.

There were more than thirty mileposts between here and the port at Ostia.

Wars serve as convenient mileposts in the history of mankind.

The Christmas holidays came, and went by like mileposts from the window of an express train.

When he roared it out I had just noticed the bollards standing up like mileposts to block our way.

They had numbered one hundred sixty-three, a child every mile, nailed to mileposts with one arm outstretched to point her way.

He stockpiles flower petals in urns to be rained down on his hero upon entering Rome and positions runners at mileposts.

"Yeah, well, they found a foot at milepost 903."

But they stopped short of setting G8 mileposts such as 2020 for cuts that would require tough political decisions now.