Sentence examples for won a breakthrough from inspiring English sources

Sen. John McCain won a breakthrough triumph in the Florida primary Tuesday night, seizing the upper hand in the Republican presidential race ahead of next week's coast-to-coast contests and lining up a quick endorsement from soon-to-be dropout Rudy Giuliani.

This she ascribes to Britain's first-past-the-post system, which makes it nigh impossible for a nationally based third party to win a breakthrough.

The MLSPU was probably not in a strong enough position to win everything it wanted via a strike yet it won a key breakthrough at the bargaining table.

In 2011, the decade-long campaign won a significant breakthrough when the United Nations Committee Against Torture requested the Irish government to conduct an independent investigation after it accused Ireland of having failed to protect the rights of women in the laundries.

Douglas Frantz (NYT) THE AMERICAS CANADA: CONSERVATIVES DEFECT -- The rightist Canadian Alliance won a major breakthrough in Quebec, the nation's second most populous province, with the defection of half of the executive leadership of the Quebec Conservative Party as well as the party presidents for 25 districts.

McGovern won a key breakthrough victory over Humphrey and Wallace on April 4 in Wisconsin, where he added blue-collar economic populism to his appeal.

The failure was one of the primary reasons that Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) Erwin Rommel could not win a decisive breakthrough against the British 8th Army throughout 1941 1942.

Alfred Gilman, who won a Nobel Prize for his breakthrough research into the inner workings of cells and later left Texas' $3-billion cancer-fighting initiative, citing a lack of oversight that led to a scandal, has died.

Q. Jonathan Saunders, you have won an award as a breakthrough men's wear designer, meaning that after just two years of doing men's wear, you are top of the pile.

As I write this, I have not won an Oscar for a breakthrough performance, or a Tony for a long-running Broadway show.

He added, "That best-series win is a breakthrough moment that says cutting-edge stuff is being done here".