Sentence examples for breakthrough giving from inspiring English sources

Though Gladys Knight & the Pips' 1967 version of I Heard it Through the Grapevine had become Motown's biggest selling single so far,Gaye's rendition from those sessions provided his commercial breakthrough, giving him his first US No 1.

But Thursday's breakthrough gave the project new credibility by establishing clear rules.

This touch of sanity is a welcome breakthrough given the insane arms race of the past 50-plus years.

It was a significant breakthrough, given that quite a few assembly members have themselves attracted the attention of the police in the not-so-distant past.

Last week, Myanmar's rulers relented and allowed a United Nations envoy to visit — a diplomatic accomplishment that the Chinese touted, but hardly a breakthrough given reports of continued arrests.

For the future, however, the medical-abortion breakthrough gives abortion-rights advocates a chance to change the way abortion is spoken of, and hence regarded.

— Three years ago, a technological breakthrough gave dairy farmers the chance to bend a basic rule of nature: no longer would their cows have to give birth to equal numbers of female and male offspring.

The breakthrough gave tremendous impetus to the development of DNA sequencing technologies and to the computational approaches needed to analyze large volumes of data (a single human genome sequence yields three billion data points, equivalent to its length in base pairs, or units of DNA).

The tentative Iran deal announced on 3 April, in which Western leaders and the Islamic republic agreed on strict limits to Iran's nuclear program, was hailed by many as a breakthrough, given that it could avert yet another US-led war in the Middle East.

The BBC's Stephen Evans in Seoul says the talks are something of a breakthrough given the level of insult thrown at the South by the North in recent years.

The resulting breakthrough gives our hometown -- and our hometown industry -- a chance to grow and thrive.