Sentence examples for setbacks and breakthroughs from inspiring English sources

Their week had been a succession of setbacks and breakthroughs.

Setbacks and breakthroughs arrive like clockwork, and secondary characters step in to fill their allotted roles: no-nonsense best friend and ally (Minnie Driver), big-shot lawyer who believes in the case (Peter Gallagher), grown-up daughter (Ari Graynor) who just might reconcile with her estranged father.

The HBO movie "Temple Grandin" honors its heroine's priorities, stressing deeds over tearful setbacks and joyous breakthroughs.

He was right, as proved by the conflicting headlines about progress and setbacks, breakthroughs and disarray.

Constantly we see medical cures and breakthroughs.

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We see the setbacks, the breakthroughs that turned out to be horrific mistakes (the radical mastectomy, extreme chemo) and all the people, famous and not, who fiddled and funded and demanded and discovered in hopes of finally providing the world with its most valuable prize: A cure for cancer.

By firing 192 lasers at a fuel pellet the size of a pinhead, and compressing it 35 times to produce the pressure and heat needed to start a fusion reaction, the scientists succeeded in producing slightly more energy than the fuel absorbed from the lasers – a breakthrough after years of setbacks and slipped timescales.

In short -- as documented at length in my book Reagan at Reykjavik -- he set strategic goals on where he wanted to take superpower relations and nuclear weapons; figured out a pathway of how to get from here to there; trusted the leadership team around him; stayed the course during harsh opposition and grave setbacks; and managed to turn such setbacks into strategic breakthroughs.

Every research breakthrough, every announcement of a master key that we can turn to reverse all that, has been followed by setbacks and confusion.