Sentence examples for hand a breakthrough from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, a breakthrough in this area would create a whole new line of business.

(AP) – New York lawmakers narrowly voted to legalize same-sex marriage Friday, handing activists a breakthrough victory in the state where the gay rights movement was born.

Results from the Innocentive open innovation platform show again and again that when progress in a specific field stalls, it is often a thinker from one slightly adjacent, with a set of different mental models but still able to understand the problem at hand, that achieves a breakthrough.

On the other hand material engineering may represent a breakthrough in terms of reliability and performance enhancement, owing to the exploitation of the physical and chemical features of different phase change compounds.

But the top Senate leaders of both parties told reporters earlier in the day that a breakthrough was at hand on a longer-term budget deal.

Officials said it seemed likely the negotiations would enter an unplanned fourth day on Saturday but it was not clear whether the US secretary of state, John Kerry, and other foreign ministers would fly in – which would be a clear sign a breakthrough was at hand.

I devoted two years to what proved to be a rewarding experience, and I had a hand in creating breakthrough health-care products for use in emerging markets.

The Playstation Vita, on the other hand, isn't even trying to be a breakthrough device.

"It's very clear we have a breakthrough product on our hands, but it's also clear that many can afford it, some can't.

Sometimes we do have a breakthrough technology on our hands and seek to find a market pain point for which the technology might help create a solution.

The Gran Cardinale had a hand in the breakthrough.