Sentence examples for spectacular breakthroughs from inspiring English sources

Though the public may tend to think of scientists as exceedingly sober, scientific schmoozing is often beer-tinged, famous for producing spectacular breakthroughs and productive collaborations, countless papers having begun as scrawls on cocktail napkins.

Stunning technological advances in genomics have led to spectacular breakthroughs in the understanding of the underlying defects, biological pathways and therapeutic targets of skin diseases leading to new therapeutic interventions.

Truth is, there have been some spectacular breakthroughs produced in recent years out of big pharma labs, including Merck and Pfizer drugs aimed at specialized conditions and unmet medical needs.

He initiated spectacular breakthroughs with Iran and Cuba, plus a semi-success with Burma (though these achievements have been offset somewhat by failures with Russia and North Korea).

Last year, in a spectacular breakthrough, his party routed Labour and secured an absolute majority of seats.

The pupils' success prompted John Bald, a former head inspector at Ofsted, to describe it as "a spectacular breakthrough".

After having perhaps the best off-season of any N.B.A. team, the Nets are poised for a spectacular breakthrough or colossal disappointment.

If opinion polls are to be trusted, the Front National will make a spectacular breakthrough in a two-round regional election on Saturday and next Sunday.

While this year there have been no John Carter or Lone Ranger-style big budget disasters (released in 2012 and 2013), there has been no spectacular breakthrough hit, he adds.

Two years ago he made a spectacular breakthrough, bowling with effortless menace against Pakistan in the Emirates, looking like one of the best young fast bowlers in the world and seeming set inexorably on an upward sporting trajectory.

WHEN Colin Powell, the American secretary of state, was summing up the latest spectacular breakthrough in relations between Russia and its cold-war enemies, he carefully made two points about the war in Chechnya.