Sentence examples for a breakthrough when it from inspiring English sources

There is something heartbreaking about the feeling that an insensitive staging can do such damage to a piece that deserves to have its best possible shot of making a breakthrough when it gets its once in a generation chance.

The city's first all-plastic pier, built from 1.5 million recycled plastic bottles at Tiffany Street in the Bronx, was heralded as a breakthrough when it opened in 1995.

The column-mounted gear shifter, which freed space for a third passenger in the middle of the front seat, was a breakthrough when it appeared on Cadillacs and Pontiacs in 1938.

In the tiny-keyboard era of BlackBerry, Sidekick and Treo the LifeDrive's Graffiti handwriting-recognition system, which some hailed as a breakthrough when it initially appeared in the PalmPilot, has become obvious as the annoyance it really always was.

The redesigned laptops are thinner and lighter, and use what Apple touted as a construction "breakthrough" when it debuted in the super-slim MacBook Air in January.

This is a major breakthrough when it comes to artificial intelligence and neural networks, as beating top Go players has been the last symbolical challenge.

Moulds from all over the world were tested, but the breakthrough, when it came, was found closer to home, on a mouldy old melon.

Celia's emotional breakthrough, when it comes, reads as both important and true.

Courteously, if a little wearily, she replied that she would call it a breakthrough when people stopped asking questions like that.

Ms. Bermudez considered it a breakthrough when one of the five students confided that he had been acting out because the work was too hard.

Still, it's a breakthrough when the report is presented on Page 1, and as news, not "analysis".