Pakistan's interior minister, Moinuddin Haider, predicted a "major breakthrough" in the three-week kidnapping and more arrests within 48 hours.
The data helps meteorologists predict major storms.
Predicting major changes is almost impossible.
Of course whether or not my art is predicting the next major breakthrough in physics remains to be seen.
They may get the headlines, they will not make the majorities". Although the Ukip gains were not as great as some polls had predicted, it still represented a major breakthrough for a fringe party which had previously struggled to make an impact on the polls.
Earlier this year the 2015 Gates Annual Letter went so far as to predict that the major breakthroughs in development over the next 15 years will be driven either by innovations in technology or those that enable more people to gain access to that technology.
By the spring of 2000, every serious Israeli, Palestinian and American analyst was predicting an outbreak of Palestinian violence absent a major breakthrough in the peace process.
Second, paired-end sequencing and mapping (PEM) supposed a major breakthrough in the field, and most predicted inversions so far have been detected using this strategy [ 4, 5, 7, 11, 34 36].
The definition and clinical use of an IRP to predict those at risk of incipient mortality could facilitate a major breakthrough in the prevention and modulation of immune-related morbidity and mortality.
Identifying non-genetic factors to predict individuals at risk for DILI prior to drug treatment would be a major breakthrough in its prevention.
William Rhodes, senior vice chairman of Citigroup and board vice chairman of the National Committee on U.S.-China relations, predicted that Beijing's research into storing carbon emissions underground could soon lead to a major breakthrough.
