Sentence examples for breakthroughs that seem from inspiring English sources

Inevitably, a populist medium like television invites backlashes with every breakthrough -- even the breakthroughs that seem almost impossibly mundane in retrospect, as when Cicely Tyson unnerved people by wearing her hair in an Afro on "East Side/West Side," a 1963 drama starring George C. Scott as a New York social worker.

In a breakthrough that seems likely to end a long and racially charged debate, the South Carolina Senate voted today to remove the Confederate battle flag from the Capitol dome and place a smaller version in a less prominent site on the Statehouse grounds.

It is not quite the breakthrough that seemed within her reach last autumn, when she found herself on a hot Derby favourite after Shanghai Bobby's success at the Breeders' Cup.

Every time I heard about a possible breakthrough that seemed to promise a remission or a cure, I sought it out.

The breakthrough victory that seemed on the horizon became a herculean task in 2010, when Gal's game regressed because of injuries to her back and left wrist.

But it's fascinating stuff for crime buffs, nonetheless, and each episode is also a case study in how a profession can be radically altered by a single invention or breakthrough, something that seems to be happening with increased regularity here in the digital age.

Since then, not only has the iPhone integrated breakthrough technologies that seemed impossible just a few years ago to how we access and use information (such as fingerprint identification and the 'intelligent' Siri assistant), but this technology has introduced a significant cultural shift that impacts on our everyday lives.

However, some of our biggest breakthroughs come from moments that seemed at the time like breakdowns.

Perhaps most important, in the Middle East, Secretary Powell said he was hoping for a strategic shift in the positions of Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, and Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, two unlikely candidates for staging the strategic breakthrough for a peace that seemed possible not so many months ago, but that has been shattered since.

The agreement was presented as a breakthrough in an investigation that seemed to have reached a dead end.

We will begin by investigating breakthroughs from the 20th century that seemed impossible in the early 1900s, such as the invention of integrated circuits and the discovery of chemotherapy.