Sentence examples for chasing breakthrough from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Bricklin, who is sixty-six years old, has spent most of his life chasing breakthroughs in the automotive industry.

In areas such as supercomputers, satellite navigation and drones, Mr. Xi has pushed Chinese companies to work alongside the military to chase breakthroughs.

The Hawks are chasing a playoff breakthrough with the same core after re-signing Joe Johnson, but under a different coach, Larry Drew.

Moseley is not the only athlete chasing a breakthrough.

That afternoon, I realised I had reached a plateau and had three options: work on my golf for a couple of years and chase that elusive breakthrough (it is a sport in which improvement comes with marginal gains over time); become a coach (not really of interest; I was already doing it on the side); or switch careers again.

But though Ozon has had commercial success in France, he is still chasing the sort of career-changing international breakthrough on a par with, say, Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown or Michael Haneke's Hidden.

Despite everything you read about companies like Google, the vast majority of big breakthroughs don't come from chasing moonshots, they are the cumulative output of a culture that values little improvements every day and by everyone.

In the 13 years since Mr. Barrett's breakthrough, theatergoers wearing Venetian-style masks — and chasing characters through labyrinthine spaces — have become the signatures of his troupe, Punchdrunk.

Cardiff chasing the game with real purpose now and knocking on the door of a breakthrough.