Sentence examples for a decisive breakthrough on from inspiring English sources

They never pushed their attacks and even when they obtained what could have been a decisive breakthrough on the fourth day, they were unable to exploit it.

But there is not yet much sign that the advent of Blair's babes represents a decisive breakthrough for female politicians.

On the other flank of Islām, a decisive breakthrough occurred in 1071 when Seljuq tribesmen defeated the Byzantines at Manzikert (modern Malazgirt), thereby confirming their occupation of the grasslands in the interior of Asia Minor.

Subsequent German offensives Operation Georgette (9 April–11 April), Operation Blücher-Yorck (27 May), Operation Gneisenau (9 June) and Operation Marne-Rheims (15 July–17 July)—all made advances elsewhere on the Western Front, but failed to achieve a decisive breakthrough.

But on Monday, Germany sought to play down expectations of a decisive breakthrough at another meeting of European leaders scheduled for this weekend.

But his Japan Restoration Party is unlikely to make a decisive breakthrough.

Let's hope that the NRS has made a decisive breakthrough.

And impressive though the result in Romsey was—snatching the Conservative's 51st safest parliamentary seat there are few signs of a decisive breakthrough.

The deal, blessed and promoted by International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, not exactly a hawk, was really more a test of Iran's intentions than a decisive breakthrough.

But his departure does not appear to amount to a decisive breakthrough that will give Mr. Hu unfettered new powers, they say.

The same may be true of the counter-revolution in Libya that is being ushered in by ex-general Kalifa Hifter's slow-motion coup which gathered support last week but without making a decisive breakthrough.