Sentence examples for breakthrough instead of from inspiring English sources

Now, one of the things I have learned in more than twenty years of writing is that the worst thing you can do is to try and ride a bike with the brakes on and so I gave up and had this great breakthrough: instead of trying to solve the problem, I'd do away with it.

Futurist Jeremy Rifkin lays out a vision of "the Third Industrial Revolution" that, through digital connectivity, clean energy and smart transportation all tied together through the "Internet of Things," can lead to breakthrough instead of breakdown.

Breakout Labs is part of Thiel's push to go for genuine technological breakthroughs instead of the low-hanging fruit in the consumer web space that many other investors seem to be attracted to.

The two-year fellowship, for applicants under age 20, was started last year by Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley investor who believes more young people should be chasing breakthrough technologies instead of wasting their time and money in college.

Smart Planet: Novogratz founded Acumen Fund in 2001 based on a novel idea: help the poor by investing in social enterprises, emerging leaders and breakthrough ideas instead of donated goods and services.

Update | Aug. 18 Anti-Putin Stunt Earns Punk Band Two Years in Jail (and related slide show) Drop Out, Start Up: The Thiel Fellowship Aids Young Entrepreneurs With Grants Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley investor, believes more young people should be chasing breakthrough technologies instead of wasting their time and money in college.

Ahead of Saturday's A-League clash at AAMI Park, van 't Schip suggested Aloisi should be congratulating his old side for their breakthrough FFA Cup victory instead of criticising them so often.

In September 1997 IBM hailed a breakthrough in using copper instead of aluminum to carry current on a chip.

Although these new agents provide improvements in safety and, in some cases, efficacy compared to the established agents, such improvements are, generally, incremental instead of breakthrough.

Following the talk, and caught up in the hype, Washington and Silicon Valley poured into cleantech more than $100 billion — but instead of breakthroughs, the industry suffered setbacks, with investors now scaling back financial support.

--At timesameachme, each week brings another unlikely success story that encourages young 'uns to continue to seek mainstream breakthroughs following this route (instead of the former attempts via writing screenplays or getting producers coffee on the set).