Learning to spell is a great achievement.    From LearnThat.org. 

Granted, it was a time when the graduation rate was a non-issue and the term achievement gap had yet to be coined.    From Wordnik.com.  [ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News] Reference

That's what they are referring to, this renewal, this -- what they call achievement of enrichment at Netame (ph).    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2006] Reference

I'm sure the 'achievement' is great ... but it's slow, it looks terrible, and it can't handle things like GTK+ windows properly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nimi Adds Visual Effects And Eye Candy To Windows | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

But Pirandello's greatest achievement is in his plays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luigi Pirandello - Biography] Reference

"My proudest achievement is raising a family," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alvarez, Everett Jr.] Reference

Our material achievement is the product of our intellect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yellow Peril] Reference

His foremost purely fictional achievement is the great novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 - Press Release] Reference

If they'd used the word achievement, we wouldn't be as excited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autoblog Green] Reference

In backing up this interest Canadian achievement is remarkable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada's Artistic Boom] Reference

That he was astounded by the achievement, is putting it mildly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

Second, what about its achievement from the social point of view?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Look At Canada] Reference

Yet we could ask why he never measured up to Camus in achievement?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orwell and Bohemia] Reference

That in itself was another achievement from a pre-war point of view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fourteen Years of Peace] Reference

Such issues mean the scale of China's future achievement is uncertain.    From Wordnik.com.  [EU Must Act Fast and Share Knowledge With China] Reference

As we will see, this statistical achievement is less significant than it sounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macau’s Big Gamble] Reference

Another remarkable achievement is our use of electricity in France to run our trains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Present Day Spirit in France] Reference

Mahfouz's great and decisive achievement is as the writer of novels and short stories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 - Press Release] Reference

The first achievement is being called to write amongst talented writers and still stand out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview Thursday: Whoever cannot take care of a child, should not be allowed to have any" - Allied] Reference

Bethe's main achievement in this connection was the exclusion of other possible nuclear reactions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hans Bethe - Biography] Reference

His most important achievement is the discovery of the rearrangement reaction which bears his name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Release: The 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference

Gerard Debreu's major achievement is his work in proving the existence of equilibrium-creating prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prize in Economics 1983 - Presentation Speech] Reference

We live in a common world and the individual achievement is valid for all and becomes their possession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rudolf Eucken - Nobel Lecture] Reference

His foremost purely fictional achievement is the great novel Die Blendung ( "Auto da Fé"), published in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 - Presentation Speech] Reference

The only claim this crew could make about achievement is that they averted something worse from happening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danny Schechter: Not Much New: The Economic Policy Burden That Haunts Obama] Reference

Eliminating the salary schedule and tying evaluation in part to student achievement is hugely significant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I'm not embarrassed by the Baltimore teachers' vote] Reference

His foremost achievement is to have formulated and formalized the microeconomic foundations of the theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prize in Economics 1992 - Press Release] Reference

And for the four million Canadians of neither French nor British origin, either achievement is irrelevant.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Canada?] Reference

Minorities are closing the gap in achievement when it comes to at least science in elementary school, though.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » The Quiet Crisis: Major Achievement Gaps Between Minority and White High School Graduates] Reference

Yet the achievement is really very spectacular when you remember that Toronto is classed as an inland community.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Troubled Artery] Reference

One doesn't need to dig into the data to realize that pre-K programs fail to produce long-term achievement boosts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mackinac Center Commentaries] Reference

If his achievement is judged solely on the number of refugees he has rescued, then some might say that it is not great.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Peace Prize 1958 - Presentation Speech] Reference

It is simply not possible to infer that such a shift in educational achievement translates into upward social mobility.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Archbishop Nathan Söderblom's great achievement is that he has thrown the power of the spirit into the fight for peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Peace Prize 1929 and 1930 - Presentation Speech] Reference

But more than industrial progress and achievement is needed to maintain a country's standing amongst its fellow nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modernizing Britain] Reference

Laxness's main achievement consists of three novel cycles written during the thirties, dealing with the people of Iceland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Halldór Laxness - Biography] Reference

Tinbergen's main achievement was to make rigorous statistical tests of the realism of alternative business cycle theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1969-2006] Reference

I believe implicitly and unreservedly that once our people see an issue clearly, their capacity for achievement is unlimited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stock-Taking for the Postwar] Reference