Sentence examples for groundbreaking admission from inspiring English sources

They greeted the words of President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the church's top governing body, the first presidency, as a groundbreaking admission that "mistakes" by fallible church leaders in the past have sown the seeds of doubt today.

JPMORGAN CHASE IS SAID TO ADMIT FAULT IN SETTLEMENT  |  JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay about $800 million to government agencies in Washington and London, and to make a groundbreaking admission of wrongdoing, to resolve allegations stemming from its London Whale trading loss last year, Ben Protess and Jessica Silver-Greenberg report in DealBook.

JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay about $800 million to a host of government agencies in Washington and London — and make a groundbreaking admission of wrongdoing — to settle allegations stemming from a multibillion-dollar trading loss, people briefed on the matter said.

The bank, the people said, also agreed to make a groundbreaking admission of wrongdoing, acknowledging that it should have caught the problem faster but instead had lax controls that allowed the traders to build the risky position and cover up their losses.

That a carmaker voluntarily made such an admission was groundbreaking, but it fitted with the image cultivated by Mr. Ford, whose speeches on subjects like global warming made him look like a sympathetic voice on the environment in an unsympathetic industry.

Admission free The word groundbreaking may not often be used to describe art in Utah, but in the case of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Umoca), it fits like Andy Warhol and Campbell's Soup.

From its groundbreaking race- and gender-blind admission policy in 1835 and the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue of 1858, to the Oberlin Action for Civil Rights in 1969 and protests against racism, war, and international top-down capitalism through the 2000's, the college and its students have continually proven their dedication to racial, gender-based, economic and socio-political equality.

At the Museo Nacional del Prado (Paseo del Prado, 34-91-330-2800; www.museoprado.es; admission 6 euros, or about $7.75 at $1.29 to the euro), groundbreaking works by Picasso like "The Three Musicians" and "La Vie," which have arrived in Spain for the first time, are being shown next to the likes of Velázquez, El Greco, Goya and other Spanish artists who inspired Picasso.

New York State's chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, is moving ahead with his groundbreaking rule requiring law students to perform 50 hours of pro bono legal services as a condition of admission to the state bar.

And it's groundbreaking.

His designs proved groundbreaking.