The government scored a major breakthrough with the November 2011 killing of FARC leader Alfonso Cano.
This week, Apple brings us another great technological breakthrough with the launch of the third generation iPad.
After a scoreless first half, Samoan wing David Lemi made the breakthrough with a try on the resumption.
But midway through the first half it was Italy who made the breakthrough with a quite brilliantly worked goal.
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O'Gara nearly conjured a second breakthrough with a chip over the top that Luke Fitzgerald did well to gather.
He has little hope, however, that Obama will achieve any kind of breakthrough with the Iranians before the presidential election.
North (6-55) made the key breakthrough with his first delivery of the match when he removed Salman Butt for 92.
And Berbatov, so heavily criticised in recent times, almost made the breakthrough with nine minutes left, flicking a header inches wide from Nani's cross.
Into extra-time, it was Australia who looked the more likely to make the breakthrough with Sasa Ognenovski nearly scoring with a spectacular overhead kick.
He added to his two silvers from Salt Lake City in his first two events and finally made his breakthrough with another virtuoso display.
A123 points to a recent breakthrough with batteries that can work in a wide range of temperatures without the need for external cooling or heating.
Peter Trego made the breakthrough with the wicket of Carberry lbw, then deceived Adams with a slower ball in the 26th over, before taking a one-handed return catch diving forward.
The home side did eventually make the breakthrough with 15 minutes remaining as the impressive Reid floated a pinpoint cross to the far post for Jones to bundle a header past Sorenson.
She made her breakthrough with the Grammy-nominated 1996 album All For You, and has since won Grammys for 1999's When I Look Into Your Eyes and her Live in Paris album recorded in 2001.
Despite the money, time and expertise put into crafting these devices, it was rival Apple that made the breakthrough with the iPad and reignited the tablet market that Microsoft could arguably say it started.
The Gunners eventually found the breakthrough with 12 minutes to go when a superb Fabregas through-ball found substitute Eduardo on the left and his cross was comfortably turned home by Robin van Persie from close range.
They made an early breakthrough with Maddock going over in the corner after an initial tap penalty from Michael Claasens, and some superb off-loading in contact by the visiting forwards created a gap for the winger to dive through.
But his real breakthrough came with the explosion of the telecoms industry in the late 1980s.
To do so profitably, the carmaker struck a breakthrough deal with the UAW during its bankruptcy reorganization.
Last week ticket resaler StubHub announced a breakthrough deal with Major League Baseball to become the official online outlet of the league.
His breakthrough came with Drew Associates, making documentaries for the small screen.
Matthias Werner, a technology analyst at Deutsche Bank, illustrates this second type of nanotechnology breakthrough graphically with videos of a surgical scalpel based on a nanostructured diamond.
Sheffield United had dominated the second half, but had failed to make the breakthrough, with Stead's cross flying across the goalmouth with no-one able to apply the finishing touch.
But, despite the open nature of the game, the changes brought United no closer to a breakthrough, with their attacks regularly thwarted by the excellent Bolton central defensive pair of Cahill and David Wheater.
Having been dismissed for 180 after choosing to bat first, England were desperate for an early breakthrough, with Smith - who hit 183 in the second innings of the third Test - a prize scalp.
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However, the Czechs were soon back in command and coming closer to a breakthrough, with McGregor gathering on the line after a combination of Hubnik and Gary Caldwell diverted a cross into the six-yard box towards goal.
The breakthrough came with the discovery that the gene that controls genetic exchange, which goes by the prosaic name of PR-domain containing 9, or Prdm9, is also implicated in generating reproductive incompatibility between different members of the same species.
Turkey only recently made an historic breakthrough in relations with another eastern neighbour, Armenia.
Later, at a press conference, Mr Singh also dampened hopes of an imminent breakthrough in talks with Pakistan.
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