Sentence examples for as a groundbreaking step from inspiring English sources

Terry Goddard, the Arizona attorney general, hailed the agreement as a "groundbreaking" step toward cracking down on smugglers and the money that keeps them in business.

The smoking law, approved by the Senate on Tuesday and earlier by the lower chamber, was hailed by antitobacco advocates as a groundbreaking step that would serve as a model for Latin America.

In what the American Civil Liberties Union hailed as a groundbreaking step, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced with great fanfare in August that it planned to stop using private prisons.

After 213 years of fighting for the civil rights of blacks, the African Methodist Episcopal Church took a groundbreaking step tonight, electing a woman as bishop of the church for the first time.

It is a groundbreaking step for Hollywood.

This would be a groundbreaking step against Capitol Hill misbehavior.

It felt so much bigger than just being a cool part; this was a groundbreaking step".

"This is a groundbreaking step toward rapidly commercializing autonomous vehicle technology," said Mr. Vogt.

The iPhone was a groundbreaking step in fuelling mobile internet growth because its handset was so user-friendly, he said.

Perhaps the members of the Constitution in Exile should blame Abraham Lincoln (a Republican!), not Franklin Roosevelt, for the first groundbreaking step in the dismantling of their holy writ.

"This is a groundbreaking first step towards justice," said Beatrice Lindstrom, a staff attorney at the Boston-based Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti.