Sentence examples for grand leap from inspiring English sources

It has made the institution the country's 6th largest art museum, a grand leap from its previous place as 30th.

Joining Forces on Quakes Earthquake engineering will take a grand leap forward next week with the official opening of a collaborative network of laboratories around the United States.

• Digger's evolution took a grand leap after Fox's Nascar season as Hill developed the gopher's back story, as if this were a commonplace task for TV sports executives.

In a grand leap of logic about 100 years ago, doctors pinpointed the cause of violent crime, suicide, nervous exhaustion, insomnia, fatigue, headaches, confusion, sexual dysfunction, bad skin, baldness, tuberculosis, gum disease, cancer and spinsterhood.

Meeting the DARPA challenge will represent a "grand leap" toward making a robot that is truly an autonomous decision-making creature, says Whittaker.

It doesn't take a grand leap of faith for Comcast to say a competitive product, or one that in some way threatens them (or one of their for-profit companies) isn't "safe" to have on their ISP.

WHEN it comes to life decisions, Clive McCarthy doesn't shy away from grand leaps.

And this year, of course, is also the beginning of a new decade: chronological circumstances that almost demand we make daring forecasts, grand leaps of faith.

The genetic machinery of life, he writes, is incapable of grand leaps forward, meaning that any dramatic biological innovation must be the work of the intelligent designer.

The law is not so much a grand national leap toward universal coverage as a faltering shuffle, with each state proceeding at its own pace.

Her small children crowded by her at the keyboard, their faces aglow from the screen as she clicked on to the attempt at making their grand electronic leap beyond the housing project.