• But Royce Simmons' youngsters delivered a strong defensive performance as Huddersfield struggled to make a breakthrough.

    BBC: St Helens 19-6 Huddersfield

  • Yet Mr de Lacoste is hopeful his party can make a breakthrough in the area.

    BBC: French far-right leader Le Pen looks west for votes

  • His kidnappers have not made any ransom calls nor have the police been able to make a breakthrough.

    BBC: NEWS | South Asia | Strike over Bihar boy's abduction

  • Tom Rodenhauser of Kennedy Information, which studies the consulting industry, agrees that it has yet to make a breakthrough in high-end work.

    ECONOMIST: TCS in America

  • Reading looked the most likely to make a breakthrough as Howard shot over the crossbar, Sigurdsson's looping header dropped just wide and Foxes keeper Conrad Logan saved from Kebe.

    BBC: Leicester 1-2 Reading

  • In seeking to make a breakthrough, the Alliance is helped by the UUP's continuing unfinished quest for an identity, and hindered (especially in East Belfast) by any Robinson bounce back.

    BBC: NI Assembly election campaigning - state of play so far

  • Having been put in to bat, Surrey would be delighted with the total of 483, but were unable to make a breakthrough in the 12.2 overs possible before the rain came.

    BBC: Surrey punish Leicestershire before rain

  • The Hatters had a glorious chance to make a breakthrough on 54 minutes with Darren Currie chipping a cross in, only for the unmarked Talbot to head over from three yards.

    BBC: Luton 1-1 Liverpool

  • Murray's win over Djokovic in the U.S. Open final last year ended a 76-year drought for British men at the majors, but he still is yet to make a breakthrough in Australia after losing a third final here in the last four years.

    NPR: Djokovic Beats Murray For 3rd Straight Aust. Title

  • Indeed, as the burning-hot summer holiday begins (parliament is about to go into recess), to be followed by the fasting month of Ramadan that will last throughout September, there is a worrying risk that the politicians will again muff their chance to make a breakthrough towards a real accommodation between Iraq's competing sects and groups.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq

  • The party - which performed disappointingly in last year's English council elections - needed to make a "breakthrough" at a local level, Mr Farage acknowledged, if it was to build a platform for national election victories.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • The new ball was taken at the first available opportunity but New Zealand were unable to make a further breakthrough, Mushfiqur completing his fifty with a straight drive for four off O'Brien.

    BBC: Bangladesh rally after slow start

  • Keep taking measurements and maybe make a stunning breakthrough but delay an engineering project which is scheduled with a Swiss precision that will cost much to undo.

    ECONOMIST: Cause for conCERN?

  • But neither has been able to make a big breakthrough into equity underwriting, the investment-banking business that separates the best from the rest.

    ECONOMIST: Wall Street��s old order changes

  • Cynics in Brussels whisper that the Swedes are kidding themselves if they really think they can make a decisive breakthrough on enlargement during their presidency.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • So our goal is to make a really breakthrough great product.

    FORBES: Steve Jobs' Own Words From His Last Earnings Call

  • That might just qualify him to make a historic breakthrough.

    ECONOMIST: India's election

  • Mr. Bush himself has been on the ballot for the last time, and it will be difficult to make a second breakthrough (or further progress) in Afghanistan or Iraq by means of elections alone.

    NPR: Bush Banks on Elections at Home, Abroad

  • So does that make it a breakthrough moment?

    FORBES: With YouTube's New Show Is Google About to Do To TV What it Did To Print?

  • He made his Arsenal debut 10 months later in the League Cup, but struggled to make a regular breakthrough and it was only in May 2003 that he scored his first senior goals for the club against Southampton.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | My Club | Arsenal | Pennant keen to secure new deal

  • Today, we are a long way from the era when a single person working with an assistant or two can make a revolutionary technological breakthrough.

    CNN: How to 'take over' a brain

  • So too, Bagehot submits, is its gloomy prophetic corollary the widespread notion that, having failed to make a mid-term breakthrough, the Lib Dems are destined to be brutally culled at the forthcoming election.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • Lithium-ion batteries are a key breakthrough that make electric vehicles far more practical in terms of operating range.

    FORBES: Chevy Volt Battery Fires Threaten All Electric Vehicle Makers, Not Just GM

  • Tajikistan appeared set to make the breakthrough after being awarded a penalty, only for captain Samad Shohzukhurov to waste the resulting spot kick.

    BBC: Ghana will play Brazil in the second round on Wednesday

  • Following the break, and with more pressure failing to make any breakthrough, Hughes made a double substitution with Tugay and Matt Derbyshire coming on for David Dunn and the ineffective McCarthy.

    BBC: Kanu's goal was his 50th in the Premier League

  • Gulbis did well to hang in for most of the third set as the boisterous New York crowd willed him to make a fight of it, but Murray finally made the breakthrough in game 11 with a fantastic cross-court backhand winner and he served out for a comfortable victory.

    BBC: Murray starts with convincing win

  • Germany dominated the play, recording more shots, completing more passes and possessing the ball for roughly 60% of the game but couldn't create a breakthrough and struggled to make the space for its dangerous attacking players, Mesut Ozil and Thomas Muller, to influence the game.

    WSJ: Euro 2012: Favored Germans Look Shaky But Survive Portugal on Mario Gomez Goal

  • Optimism is building in Detroit for a breakthrough labor deal that will make General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler Group more cost-competitive with Toyota Motor.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • After a slower start, Urszula -- currently ranked 37th -- may feel as though she is beginning to make her mark, with 2012 having proved a breakthrough year following a back problem that hindered her early progress as a professional.

    CNN: Net gain

  • 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.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

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