Sentence examples for effect a breakthrough from inspiring English sources
A meeting supposed to effect a breakthrough on denuclearisation looked "more like a big welcome party to the nuclear-armed club", in the acid but accurate words of one observer.
Despite significant early gains, they were unable to effect a breakthrough and the situation reverted to stalemate.
Corps commanders attacked in line without reserves, and artillery could not be concentrated to effect a breakthrough.
So, said Laughlin, the fractional quantum Hall effect is a breakthrough because it proves that the ordinary laws of quantum mechanics can do things that we cannot anticipate.
But if either Israel or the Palestinian Authority hoped to exploit the papal visit for political gain, or thought the trip could be used to effect a dramatic breakthrough, it was bound to be disappointed.
But here, when the tenors excitingly yelled "Resurrexit!" at the tops of their voices, the effect was of a breakthrough from some ritual before any recorded history.
To effect a cross-cultural breakthrough, someone has to sort through his outpouring.
"A summit could be judged as both a failure (no concrete deliverables) and a success (a breakthrough effect on the overall trajectory of the relationship)," the State Department's Office of the Historian said, in a statement.
Honsberg is cautiously optimistic, calling the finding of the multiple-electron effect in silicon nanocrystals a breakthrough, but only "one breakthrough out of maybe three or four" needed to produce cheap, superefficient solar cells.
A bargaining group for Hollywood's largest movie and television companies on Wednesday told its members, in effect, not to expect a breakthrough in stalled talks with the Screen Actors Guild before their scheduled end on Friday.
LOS ANGELES — A bargaining group for Hollywood's largest movie and television companies on Wednesday told its members, in effect, not to expect a breakthrough in stalled talks with the Screen Actors Guild before their scheduled end on Friday.
