Sentence examples for breakthrough of a sort from inspiring English sources

Last week there was another breakthrough — of a sort.

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.

A: Sort of.

Government-funded R&D, as well as the buying patterns of government agencies -- (alas!) both often connected to war and war-making plans -- have driven innovation in everything from textiles and shipbuilding to telecoms, medicine, and high-tech breakthroughs of all sorts.

The interplay between the characters and environment and a surprisingly emotional undercurrent for a puzzle game made it a breakout that was also a breakthrough of sorts.

A few years ago, engineers at Keurig achieved a breakthrough of sorts.

A breakthrough of sorts came in 1961, when he sold to the Museum of Modern Art in New York a Mona Lisa, mischievously painted in the style of an abstract expressionist.

(AP) ASIA SRI LANKA: RESPONSE AWAITED -- The government has still not officially responded to an offer by the Tamil rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran for unconditional peace talks, but a state-owned paper, The Daily News, said it was "a breakthrough of sorts in beginning negotiations because it was the position of the government that there would be no cease-fire prior to talks".

That would be a breakthrough of sorts.

After nearly three years of stumbling starts, the announcement counts as a breakthrough of sorts.

Now, at last, comes a breakthrough of sorts, courtesy of the N.Y.U.