Sentence examples for breakthroughs such as from inspiring English sources

A rare few represent discontinuous breakthroughs, such as the incandescent lamp, alternating electric current or the jet engine.

Catherine Green, World Vision's operations manager for its Nepal earthquake response, says aid agencies need to do much more to exploit affordable technological breakthroughs such as 3D printing.

Advances like telecommunications – or indeed other British breakthroughs, such as the world wide web or the discovery of the structure of DNA – open the door to a whole new set of technologies.

Ivan Gayton, an emergency coordinator for MSF, said recent breakthroughs – such as reducing the number of children dying in the camp each day from three to one – were now in jeopardy.

The craft and making sector has created the basis for the disruptive collaboration that led to breakthroughs such as 3D printing, the application of prosthetics in surgery, and the design of the wearable technologies set to revolutionise our clothing.

It is true that historically economic crises and difficulties have also been associated with democratic breakthroughs, such as the sudden collapse of seemingly stable autocratic regimes, as much as with the opposite outcome of increasing authoritarianism.

Or maybe it is dangling a more intellectual lure--like being on the ground floor of a major breakthrough, such as a cure for cancer.

However, this scenario could be turned on its head by a technology breakthrough such as the International Fusion Project, which aims to produce unlimited energy safely and cheaply [8, 22].

This difference could be that these students perceive the concept of helping others as more of a hands-on activity, such as volunteerism or nursing, versus positively affecting society, which they could perceive as resulting from a STEM research breakthrough, such as a new vaccine or medical device.

Jonathan Schaeffer, the scientist who led the effort, said a breakthrough such as quantum computing would be needed before solving chess could even be attempted, but he does not rule out the possibility, saying that the one thing he learned from his 16-year effort of solving checkers "is to never underestimate the advances in technology".

And if we add other breakthrough tools, such as inexpensive antibiotics, we can save even more lives in a region where HIV/AIDS is a major factor in child survival.