The phrase "a breakthrough toward" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing progress or advancements in a particular area or field, indicating movement in a positive direction.
Example: "The researchers announced a breakthrough toward finding a cure for the disease."
Alternatives: "a step forward in" or "an advancement in".
Hours earlier, Israeli and Palestinian leaders held their highest-level talks in more than two years, without achieving a breakthrough toward ending their 31-month conflict.
The statement said they "agreed that without an open and realistic attitude" by Mr. Arafat "it will not be possible reach a breakthrough toward an agreement".
The performances of the well-known "Noces" (in its less well-known original version for orchestra) and the "Symphony of Psalms" and the rarely heard "Perséphone" by the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas on Wednesday evening at Carnegie Hall may provide a breakthrough toward a fresh and more comprehensive understanding of the music and the man.
A suicide bomber attacked a city bus at the start of the Israeli work week here this morning, killing at least 6 people and wounding more than 20 just hours after Israeli and Palestinian leaders held their highest-level talks in more than two years, without achieving a breakthrough toward ending their 31-month conflict.
When a group of scientists in Massachusetts claimed this week that they had cloned the first early human embryo--a breakthrough toward future therapeutic uses--the announcement immediately drew world-wide uproar and prompted a new series of debates on the legal, ethical, and scientific issues associated with this research.
This insight is considered a breakthrough step toward the discovery of artemisinin by her supporters.
Until then, Haas had made a lot of progress toward a breakthrough after reuniting with his former coach, David Ayme, last year.
Several experts said the findings — besides potentially adding subtext to crying songs through the ages, from Roy Orbison to the Rolling Stones — could be a first step toward a breakthrough on a mysterious subject.
Ron Howard's new adaptation of the Dan Brown book Angels and Demons represents a breakthrough in Hollywood's approach toward religion, taking the discussions of faith away from the extremes of proselytizing and rejection to the middle ground.
"There's an urgent need for a breakthrough in transparency and to move toward a more radical transparency".
A further exciting breakthrough toward an increasingly powerful network framework for identifying pathways involved in responses to environmental conditions or in governing phenotypic behaviors is offered by a recent development of a Steiner tree computational algorithm, able to integrate protein protein and protein DNA interactomes (29).
