Sentence examples for surprise breakthrough from inspiring English sources

So it's been all uphill since that surprise breakthrough then?

What triggered this surprise breakthrough remains a private matter and was not explored in court.

BRUSSELS — The European Union may soon have a new budget — including the first cut to spending in its history — after a surprise breakthrough deal on Thursday.

In a surprise breakthrough this morning, Israelis and Palestinians agreed to put the brakes on their violent confrontation and steer their societies back toward the path of peace.

The Prime Minister David Cameron called the surprise breakthrough at the four-day meeting in Bali "historic" and a "lifeline" for the world's more impoverished people as it will lower barriers and speed up customs procedures.

Ukraine's president has made a surprise breakthrough, by gaining Russian agreement to oust gas-trade intermediary RosUkrEnergo in favour of direct sales at the current price, which is less than two-thirds of the tariff paid by EU states.

Once driven by surprise breakthroughs by new performers, the genre has come to rely on a few bankable stars whose recordings require ever-escalating budgets.

Surprise breakthroughs continue all the time: months after an article in The New York Times magazine portrayed her as a casualty of major-label myopia, the defiantly arty Aimee Mann sang the soundtrack to the film "Magnolia" and became one of pop's rising stars.

There were no surprise breakthroughs in the men's race as all the top performers were those predicted to make an impact before the race.

Baines and Kevin Mirallas prospered down the Everton left and it was no surprise when the breakthrough arrived from that source.

Mr. Webster, who was present during the interview with NPR, said Dr. Grotzinger had been talking more generally about the quality of data coming back from Curiosity and was not suggesting that the data contained a breakthrough surprise.