Sentence examples for given his breakthrough from inspiring English sources

He was given his breakthrough at Udinese by Francesco Guidolin, who this month was appointed as Swansea City's head coach.

Now Mr. Gethard, a performer well known at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Manhattan but not widely recognized outside the improv comedy scene, was living both a show-business dream and a nightmare: the excitement of being the ingénue who's been given his breakthrough opportunity, and the crushing anxiety of feeling as if its success rests entirely on his shoulders.

At age 17, in a last minute substitution, Lang Lang gave his breakthrough performance at the "Gala of the Century" where he played the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Chicago Symphony.

As yet, he has never gone beyond the last 16 of a slam, though the breakthrough must be imminent, given his undoubted talent.

Fassbender's performance as Bobby Sands gave him his breakthrough into the big time.

Ali G, the Surrey B-boy who gave Baron Cohen his breakthrough, came from Staines, and while the commuter belt outpost had presumably been chosen for the giggly connotations of its name, it was also exactly the kind of place where suburban herberts might fixate on Wu-Tang Clan.

Appearances on the comedy circuit and The Richard Pryor Show followed, though it was his cameo appearance on Happy Days as an alien called Mork that gave him his breakthrough.

James Madison is given credit for his breakthrough ideas about the new government's structure.

The influence of Martin Scorsese, who gave Mr. Imperioli his breakthrough role in "Goodfellas," is ever present — you can see bits and pieces of "After Hours," "Mean Streets" and "Who's That Knocking at My Door".

Given that his 2008 breakthrough was courtesy of the anaemic cod-reggae of "I'm Yours", it would have been unreasonable to expect Jason Mraz's fourth album to be a carnival of envelope-pushing thrills, but even by his own standards this is stupefyingly insipid and pedestrian fare.

His breakthrough was "Give Us a Kiss" (1996), a "country noir" written like Elmore Leonard slurping moonshine, a manner Woodrell brilliantly refined in "Tomato Red" (1998).