But this ignores the historic gains we made in Virginia by soundly rejecting the Southern strategy.

How do you respect those historic gains while acknowledging the ascension of another group?

At stake are historic gains in minority home ownership rates, which until the mid-1990's had been stagnant for two decades.

But he said he did not want to do anything that might detract from the historic Republican electoral gains and harm his party's ambitious legislative agenda.

They also gained six gubernatorial seats, as well as historic gains in state legislatures.

The Social Democrats made historic gains, taking up those eight points and winning an absolute majority on the city council.

There are historic black electoral gains accompanied by momentous ones by conservative white Republicans.

Failure to bring about peace between Israel and Syria should not obscure the historic gains of the past four years.

But it would be neither wise nor responsible to pursue our only alternative, shutting the town down and risk losing the historic gains we achieved.

This is a fancy way of saying that stocks that are outperforming today will eventually fall back in line with their historic average gains.