Sentence examples for groundbreaking measure from inspiring English sources

The bill contains a groundbreaking measure that would let stressed borrowers work with their banks to write down the value of their mortgages.

-- In late 2013, voters in this airport town outside Seattle narrowly approved a groundbreaking measure setting a minimum wage of $15 per hour for certain workers.

He approved a groundbreaking measure requiring three paid sick days for workers in California, but displeased the Service Employees International Union by insisting that the home health aides it represents be excluded.

The department has also been widely praised for groundbreaking measures to improve patient safety.

Promises of "a new kind of politics" in 1997 led to groundbreaking measures on human rights and freedom of information.

Fire officials hailed the ideas as groundbreaking measures that they long believed should have been written into law.

And at its heart is this: Was Richard the villain his detractors expediently made him out to be, or was he, as supporters contend, a goodly king, harsh in ways that were a function of an unforgiving time, but the author of groundbreaking measures to help the poor, extend protections to suspected felons and ease bans on the printing and selling of books?

It contains no groundbreaking measures nor expansive visions beyond prepping some version of a pharmacare policy to likely anchor their 2019 election campaign.

More than a million people in the UK are so poor they cannot afford to eat properly, keep clean or stay warm and dry, according to a groundbreaking attempt to measure the scale of destitution in Britain.

Prosecutors have called his cooperation "groundbreaking by any measure," and filed the 122-page document to seek a more lenient sentence than the mandatory life term set forth in the advisory sentencing guidelines.

Paul was a gifted scientist who, over the course of his career, had conceived and carried out a number of clever and groundbreaking experiments to measure thermodynamic conditions in dynamic physical and biological systems.