Sentences with phrase «chance of a breakthrough»

He discussed its chances of a breakthrough in English local elections, and for parliaments and assemblies in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The path forward would of necessity require a mix of social, financial and scientific innovation that can help societies, here and abroad, use fossil fuels more sparingly and less harmfully; diffuse current cleaner energy technology faster and more broadly; and advance understanding on the frontiers of chemistry, biology and other sciences to give the best chance of breakthroughs that, in a decade or two, can provide a sustainable energy menu for generations to come.

But how credible is this story, the one that gives the pundits confidence that the majority report offers a real chance of a breakthrough?

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With the midterm elections in view for jittery lawmakers, chances for a breakthrough on an immigration overhaul, a rewrite of the tax code, or a major jobs package have all but vanished.

This is a major breakthrough because many more ideas have the opportunity to see the light of day and get their chance to benefit consumers — and the world.

Everything in Breakthrough Entrepreneurship is intended to teach you how to reject a thousand marginal ideas in favor of the best ones, and then maximize your chances of success with them.

Breakthrough: Scientists can now use your genome to predict your chances of getting heart disease or breast cancer, and even your IQ.

President Trump will take a team of business leaders who may sign sales agreements, but chances of a big breakthrough on trade frictions seem slim.

Chances for a major breakthrough improve as local, state, and federal levels of government each play increasingly responsible roles in mental health.

The breakthrough seemed to encourage United to attack and they had good chances to extend their advantage when Rooney struck straight at Fabianski and Herrera blazed over from the edge of the box.

In turn, the game began with both sides showing plenty of determination and the odd half - chance as they threatened to find a breakthrough, but it was Lallana who finally bagged the first goal of the game.

We had plenty of first - half chances on Sunday, but just couldn't make the breakthrough in a team display much improved from our last Premier League away game, at Liverpool.

A flurry of late chances from Marquette kept things interesting but neither side could find a breakthrough.

They took their time to get going and missed a number of chances before Olivier Giroud made the breakthrough early in the second half.

Despite dominating possession and generating a number of chances, a breakthrough proved elusive for the Reds, denying Brendan Rodgers» side a third straight Barclays Premier League win.

However, Feruz has been training with the Chelsea first - team since returning to the club and, with Tammy Abraham possibly going out on loan, he could have a chance of making the breakthrough in the senior side this campaign.

One Ukip MEP told me last week that Oldham was precisely the type of northern constituency that the party needs to be winning if it's to stand any chance of making a breakthrough in Labour's heartlands in 2020.

A bipartisan group of House members announced a deal on sweeping immigration legislation, a breakthrough that could boost chances for one of President Obama's top second - term priorities.

Golding also recently wrote in a leaflet that he would «strongly urge our supporters to vote for Ukip as they have the best chance of making breakthroughs at the ballot box.»

«If we can, maybe there's a chance to make great breakthroughs in terms of treatment.»

Such an approach would increase the chances of a therapeutic breakthrough, they say, and the inclusion of public funding would help mitigate the risks and costs of Alzheimer's research for the private sector.

This will provide a very real chance of a key scientific breakthrough in a technological area.»

On a recent warm morning, my friend Jack, a keen bird - watcher, gave me the chance to test what could be a world - changing technological breakthrough: a pair of socks.

Heller and Pudritz propose that the Breakthrough Listen Initiative, part of the most comprehensive search for extraterrestrial life ever conducted, can maximize its chances of success by concentrating its search on Earth's transit zone.

This extra early funding means that emerging medical breakthroughs in research and technology businesses can be sustained by sufficient venture capital to optimize their chances of success.

The findings range from a breakthrough for stabilizing fusion plasmas to good news for the international ITER project going up in France to new thoughts about the chances of life on planets circling nearby stars.

Newly discovered genetic fingerprint is a big breakthrough that can help doctors predict the chances of success of IVF treatment.

Breakthrough Strategies to Lower Your Risk... and Increase Your Chances of Recovery Breast cancer incidence has risen by 60 percent in the last fifty years.

This isn't a great video topic because the fact that the body enhances the chances of survival, by recycling and buffering protein, is not a breakthrough discovery....

Though the casting of funnyman Jason Sudeikis as Owens» coach will no doubt raise a few eyebrows, it's nice to see up - and - comer Stephan James getting a chance to showcase his talents in a leading role after his breakthrough performance in «Selma.»

When it comes to LGBTQ representation, the films with the best chance for nabbing some academy recognition are «Battle of the Sexes,» in which tennis and lesbian icon Billie Jean King is played by reigning Oscar champ Emma Stone, and Luca Guadagnino's «Call Me by Your Name,» in which Timothée Chalamet delivers a breakthrough performance as a 17 - year - old boy who falls in love for the first time.

But Luca Guadagnino's moving romance Call Me By Your Name also picked up a couple of major wins: Costar Timothée Chalamet received the Breakthrough Actor award, and the film claimed the top prize of Best Feature, increasing its chances of an Oscar nod, à la previous winners Moonlight, Spotlight, and Birdman,

Washington — In a breakthrough that increased the chances that child - care legis lation would be approved before the end of he Congressional session, Senate leaders announced last week they had reached an agreement with the White House on a new version of the bill, which has been bogged down in a conference committee for months.

And right now, we're on the brink of amazing breakthroughs that have the chance, the potential to change life for the better — which is why we can't afford to gut these investments in science and technology.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

3) Learn to use the explosively growing collaborative capacity of today's communication tools to maximize your chances of turning a good idea into a breakthrough, and getting that resulting innovation where it needs to go to make the biggest difference.

And he pointed out how many such breakthroughs grew from teamwork pushing boundaries of understanding in ways where chances of failure were far higher than chances of success.

Only if we spur those cost and performance breakthroughs do we have a chance of drastically cutting emissions (and eliminating fossil fuel consumption) IN ADDITION to incremental cost and performance improvements.

Following our Lessons From the Shale Revolution conference in late January, the Breakthrough Institute had a chance to catch up with Don Kash, professor emeritus of George Mason University's School of Policy and Government.

After championing air pollution control measures and breakthrough employment discrimination protections, he introduced a housing bill in 1963 that would make it illegal to deny people the chance to buy or rent a home because of their race, among other classifications.