Sentence examples for tentative breakthrough from inspiring English sources

Having spoken early in his presidency of his preparedness to speak to America's enemies, the tentative breakthrough with Iran – not least in the face of opposition by Israel and Saudi Arabia – suggests a willingness to take risks that has long been absent.

As the country that hosted the secret talks between Iran and the US that led to the tentative breakthrough agreement in Geneva, Oman would like to see a thaw in Gulf Arab-Iranian relations.

He hailed the tentative deal as a breakthrough and said he would support it.

Pope Pius XII offered only a timid plea for "charity" in the Chessman case, but even that was a breakthrough for Catholics, a "tentative step on the road to recovering the pastoral practice of St. Augustine, disapproving all executions, and especially those based on political motives," James Mcgivern wrote in his book on this subject.

But even though the consensus – no matter how tentative – is being seen as a major breakthrough, the mood here this morning is jittery.

After a number of tentative starts, Mr. Goldston and Mr. Winters made a breakthrough with three lithographs that the artist called the "Morula" series, borrowing the scientific term for the fertilized ova whose shapes they recalled.

5 25 p.m. | Breakthrough?: Our colleague Jeff Zeleny reports that a tentative deal has been reached on Florida, according to two sources inside the room, with Mrs. Clinton getting an additional 19 delegates.

In a breakthrough, House and Senate negotiators said that they had reached a tentative agreement on an appeals process for patients denied care by health maintenance organizations.

In a breakthrough, House and Senate negotiators said today that they had reached a tentative agreement on an appeals process for patients denied care by health maintenance organizations, a major issue in legislation to define patients' rights.

From the first tentative attempts at dialogue during the Kennedy administration to the secret talks that led to the breakthrough in 2014, Fidel and Raúl Castro's position has been consistent: Cuba has been open to a diplomatic dialogue so long as talks are conducted on the basis of "equality and mutual respect".

The left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja earned the breakthrough in the fifth over after they had taken the new ball, spinning one past Amla's tentative bat to hit the top of off-stump before embarking on a celebratory run.