Sentence examples for groundbreaker from inspiring English sources

This is not an attempt to bash the FT, whose ranking set the precedent for those of us who are interested in comparing programmes from around the world (although the Business Week ranking which was launched in 1988, ten years before the FT's was clearly the groundbreaker, it is only really useful for comparing American programmes).

The company has been a groundbreaker in this area before.

Thus, Miñoso was a groundbreaker racially for the major leagues and became the first Latin American since Adolfo Luque to attain celebrity status.

You'd think that such a groundbreaker would be indelible, but these days Mabley's a footnote, not a legend.

One of the show's best qualities is how aggressively it resists the stifling obligations of the ethnic groundbreaker: Lahiri isn't ever a role model or an underdog.

Like Kramer, Murphy is a groundbreaker, a devotee of overkill with a streak of sentimentality.

But for Annie Notthoff, the California advocacy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, a national organization, he was a groundbreaker.

Now, Tierney sees the Michigan team as the true groundbreaker.

That's what makes the Genesis Coupe a groundbreaker for Hyundai.

Two ideas drive much of Christina Aguilera's new double album, "Back to Basics": one is that, as she states in the first song, she wants to "understand what made the soul singers and the blues figures that inspired a higher generation, the jazz makers and the groundbreakers"; the other is a recurring assertion that she has been misunderstood, and unfairly criticized.

They are groundbreakers in the first generation of startups in Iran.