Sentence examples for a dramatic breakthrough in from inspiring English sources

Maeterlinck made a dramatic breakthrough in 1890 with two one-act plays, L'Intruse (The Intruder) and Les Aveugles (The Blind).

Short of a dramatic breakthrough in negotiations the league will enter a year without a salary cap on 5 March and many feel that if that happens, there will be a work stoppage in 2011.

The report from France that several infants with severe immune disorders have apparently been cured by gene therapy is a dramatic breakthrough in a field that is desperate for one.

North Korea in turn is slowing down the disablement of its nuclear complex in Yongbyon, where it has produced plutonium for weapons.Barring a dramatic breakthrough in Beijing this week, officials in Seoul say that the task of completing the second phase will be handed over to the Obama administration.

May 1 The Week offers a primer in "The Twitter Revolution," wondering if it's a dramatic breakthrough in personal communications or a huge waste of time.

The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, appeared to have made a dramatic breakthrough yesterday in his mission to get relief to Burma's cyclone survivors after the regime agreed to allow in all international aid workers.

Still, he has demonstrated great political skill to survive as prime minister for as long as he has, and apparently realises that his hopes for a political future greatly depend upon a possible dramatic breakthrough in the peace process.

I wouldn't characterize it as a dramatic breakthrough," says University of Toronto in Canada neurosurgeon Michael Fehlings, who specializes in spinal cord injuries.

In a dramatic breakthrough that could affect millions of lives, scientists have been able to show for the first time that the body's immune defences can destroy the common cold virus after it has actually invaded the inner sanctum of a human cell, a feat that was believed until now to be impossible.

To convince most researchers that such a dramatic breakthrough really took place so early in human evolution, however, anthropologists will have to find more blades this ancient, says paleoanthropologist Rick Potts of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Stay tuned: The search is already under way for more African blade runners.

What had been heralded in advance as a dramatic breakthrough on global warming turned out to be a half-sentence assurance that "technologies" would "help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change".