Sentence examples for A groundbreaking decision from inspiring English sources

"This is really a groundbreaking decision," said Stephen Rapp, the lead prosecutor.

It was a groundbreaking decision, which has spared countless older and disabled people from selling their homes to pay for nursing care.

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has decided to lift the military's ban on women in combat, a groundbreaking decision that overturns a 1994 Pentagon rule that restricts women from artillery, armor, infantry and other such roles.

In the end, he fought all the way to the United States Supreme Court, where his formidable skills helped win a groundbreaking decision, Moore v. Dempsey, that set the stage for his clients' eventual release.

In what a pet advocacy group called a groundbreaking decision, the woman's employer changed its mind and gave the woman leave to care for her sick 12-year-old English setter.

The Agriculture Department — the agency tasked with, among other things, improving public health — made a groundbreaking decision last year when soliciting bids for cafeteria vendors at its headquarters: The USDA would go fryer-less.

In an apparently groundbreaking decision, Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar (of the conservative Likud party) instructed immigration authorities to no longer differentiate between gay and straight married couples, granting them the same rights under the Law of Return.

Macy said in a news release that she was personally grateful for the ruling: "Although the discrimination I experienced was painful both personally and financially, and led to the loss of my family's home to foreclosure, I'm proud to be a part of this groundbreaking decision confirming that our nation's employment discrimination laws protect all Americans, including transgender people".

The groundbreaking decision overturns a 1994 Pentagon rule that restricts women from many positions in the infantry and artillery, even though in reality women have found themselves in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, where more than 20,000 have served.

As the Supreme Court prepares to release its potentially groundbreaking decision on a California law that intends to regulate the sale of video games (an announcement is expected any week now, and potentially as early as Monday), it may bear remembering that Justice Potter Stewart found it impossible to reduce obscenity to a definition, declaring, "I know it when I see it".

The groundbreaking decision overturns a 1994 Pentagon rule that restricts women from artillery, armor, infantry and other such combat roles, even though in reality women have frequently found themselves in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan; according to the Pentagon, hundreds of thousands of women have deployed in those conflicts.