Sentence examples for groundbreaking decision from inspiring English sources

"This is really a groundbreaking decision," said Stephen Rapp, the lead prosecutor.

More importantly, three of the four federal judges who have ruled against Doma, including the judge who handed down this week's groundbreaking decision, have been Republican appointees.

But three months and one potentially groundbreaking decision later, Childress is living in a three-bedroom apartment in the fashionable Athens suburb of Glyfada.

It was a groundbreaking decision, which has spared countless older and disabled people from selling their homes to pay for nursing care.

The groundbreaking decision overturns a 1994 Pentagon rule that restricts women from many positions in the infantry and artillery, even though in reality women have found themselves in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, where more than 20,000 have served.

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has decided to lift the military's ban on women in combat, a groundbreaking decision that overturns a 1994 Pentagon rule that restricts women from artillery, armor, infantry and other such roles.

She is the author of hundreds of majority opinions, works of uncluttered prose that include groundbreaking decisions: holding the state accountable for failing to provide the "sound, basic education" its Constitution requires; allowing gay people to adopt their partners' children; striking down provisions of a death penalty statute.

In a groundbreaking libel decision, the judge said that "irony" and "teasing" do not amount to defamation.

It'll likely be years before we see Republicans (at least on the national stage) boldly taking pro-marriage-equality stands, and it'll likely take at least one more groundbreaking Supreme Court decision before the issue loses all of its political weight in the party.

And groundbreaking Supreme Court decisions in the 1980's and 1990's took away the right of prosecutors and defense counsel to exclude prospective jurors simply because of their race, religion or gender.

The University of Texas has been at the heart of a groundbreaking supreme court decision on race before.