Sentence examples for be a breakthrough of from inspiring English sources

That would be a breakthrough of sorts.

If that proves successful, it would be a breakthrough of the sort that has enabled other industries (not least ironmaking) to take off in the past.The benefits of improving their soil should be enough to persuade some farmers to make and bury biochar.

Andy Murray may not have won Wimbledon but his raw, tearful display at the end of his defeat by Roger Federer might turn out to be a breakthrough of another sort.

But it was a breakthrough of sorts.

This night was a breakthrough of sorts on that issue as well.

For the moment, it is a breakthrough of terminology more than substance.

In a country where endemic undernutrition has been accepted for too long as natural, this is a breakthrough of sorts.

"TV Everywhere" has been slow to materialize, so the announcement on Tuesday was a breakthrough of sorts.

With its frank (and abundant) depiction of homosexual sex, Showtime's "Queer as Folk" has been a breakthrough of sorts.

His agreeing to appear is a breakthrough of sorts for the chief minister of an Indian state.

Meanwhile, the Guardian's Asia environment correspondent Jonathan Watts writes that Hu's statement was "a breakthrough of terminology more than substance".