Sentence examples for right breakthrough from inspiring English sources

She wrote a short Fabian paper in the run-up to the 2004 European elections, at a time when there was much loose talk about the threat of a far right breakthrough for the BNP here and across Europe.

The US government was scrambling to end discriminatory employment and immigration policies on Thursday as the most sweeping gay rights breakthrough in recent legal history quickly began to make an impact.

In the end, Moyn's main pieces of evidence for taking the 1970s as the time of a human rights breakthrough are Carter's abortive steps to inject human rights into foreign policy and the 1975 Helsinki accords with the Soviet Union.

"In the end," Belinda Cooper writes of my book, "The Last Utopia," "Moyn's main pieces of evidence for taking the 1970s as the time of a human rights breakthrough are Carter's abortive steps to inject human rights into foreign policy and the 1975 Helsinki accords" ("New Birth of Freedom," Sept. 26).

They cannot alter this irrefutable fact: They long ago lost the nostalgia battle to Pee Wee and the Duke, as well as to Jackie Robinson's civil rights breakthrough, and to the deep connection between the Dodgers and their borough and the Dodgers' 1955 World Series victory.

There was a civil rights breakthrough in the state in the late 1980s and 1990s when, riding a wave of movements for decent wages, land redistribution and an end to rapes of Dalit women by landlords, large numbers voted for the Communist party of India (Marxist-Leninist), the revolutionary left party which led these movements.

(The civil rights breakthrough is an example of that).

The program with the University of Haifa is tiny — only 11 students have participated since it began in 2007 — but its potential suspension has sparked outsized response from those who hail it as a human rights breakthrough and others who say it unfairly singles out Israel and denies academic opportunities to Pitzer students.

— ANDREW FRIEDMAN, co-executive director of Make the Road New York, an immigrant rights group For gay Americans, civil-rights breakthroughs tend to happen most when they matter least.

All of the major government achievements of the postwar era, from Eisenhower's highway program to the civil rights breakthroughs of the 1960s to the 21st-century Cures Act, were the product of bipartisan negotiations and compromise.

To law students who pointed out that it was the flexible, not the originalist approach that enabled Brown and other civil-rights breakthroughs, he'd reply that "Even Mussolini made the trains run on time," or "Hitler developed a wonderful automobile.