Yet at some point he realized his success is a political breakthrough.
Washington and other major capitals recognize that they have five days in which to achieve a political breakthrough.
In some ways, this summer does not seem like an auspicious period for a political breakthrough.
This was a political breakthrough, ending years of upstate-downstate hostility.
In 1987, he got his national political breakthrough.
In the long run, however, reform requires more than a political breakthrough on thorny questions of structure and funding.
The best guess in Washington is that any political breakthrough on the budget deficit will not come before late summer.
However the party failed to make any significant political breakthrough.
What is actually meant by a 'political breakthrough' in the negotiations?
However, some argue that it simply shows the spreading of culture based on progress in distribution, and has little to do with a political breakthrough.