How To Use Inroad In A Sentence

What is so alarming about the commissioner's report is the revelation that so many relatively minor inroads on civil liberties have gone unremarked and unnoticed.
Silver is still desirable, but other metallics and copper tones in costume jewellery are making inroads.
The prospect of cashing in on the huge émigré market is one reason many Irish retailers are making a concerted effort to make inroads into e-commerce.
Stillington made major inroads into Harrogate's batting as they dismissed three home batsmen for ducks.
The move towards MP MACs, though, may result in inroads into the business apps and increased sales in that sector? — b Apple in Parallel: Turning the PC World Upside Down? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

With parallel highways being paved, jitneys were inroading into profits.
How was this diminutive creature going to make any significant inroads on my mighty frame? Times, Sunday Times
York probably regretted batting first on a grassy track as Harrogate's quickies, Dave Pennett and Khalid Hussain, made swift inroads so that the visitors were reduced to 59-7 after 27 overs.
The most effective combinations offer variety and subtlety; one makes inroads, the other exploits them. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, the big construction companies are trying to grow by making inroads into turf traditionally held by medium-size builders.
Doctors and activists fear that they will be deserted as the regime troops make further inroads, and say they are awaiting retribution. Times, Sunday Times
The closing Obama speech is cautious, calibrated to cement the inroads he has made with voters whose comfort level with him has grown.
Winters thinks St. George can make inroads with oenophiles, so he'll hit wine tastings, too.
Achieving this objective will constitute a first inroad into the advertising system. Collectif des déboulonneurs
Meer Baber Beg has placed his fortress in a very respectable state of defence, quite adequate to repel the desultory inroads of his predatory neighbours; but commanded by and exposed to enfilade from the hills about it, on one of these hills he has built a tower as a kind of outwork, but it is very weak and of insignificant size. A Peep into Toorkisthhan
We could make early inroads. The Sun
After being primarily a research technology, parallel hardware now seems to be making inroads in the commercial market.
While British timber is making inroads into the European market, there is still plenty coming in the opposite direction.
Ireland's drinks market is dominated by the multinationals but one smaller operation is making inroads.
A general right of accession would have created a major inroad into the continuing bilateralism of even multilateral treaties.
Yet they made real inroads in their last attack. Times, Sunday Times
The Franks, Visigoths, and Burgundians all made large inroads into the western empire.
Travel cards, for instance, are projected to make inroads into the $30 billion traveler check market.
She has also made solo inroads, doing that song about being with her boo.
Any contrary decision would make a serious and unjustifiable inroad on the rights of bailors, and for this inroad there does not appear to me to be any authority.
Like the cyberpunks, these writers give us an 'inroad' for understanding and adapting to rapid change in technology. Archive 2004-02-01
In Italy, as elsewhere, television has made deep inroads into cinema.
While other models may make short-term inroads, there is no way they can match Corolla's 40-plus year history of providing high-value, high-quality vehicles," said Mary Legallet, Corolla product manager. News - chicagotribune.com
Hospital bills had made deep inroads into her savings.
After being primarily a research technology, parallel hardware now seems to be making inroads in the commercial market.
Hospital bills had made deep inroads into her savings.
Buddhism made its first inroads into the upper echelons of Chinese society at this time, and many scholars met to discuss and compare the ideas of these two religions.
Making early inroads into the Uttar Pradesh batting line-up they took firm control of the proceedings.
Over time, however, the values of psychotherapy have made inroads into religious as well as secular culture.
This comes after the Opposition was mauled yesterday in Question Time when Labor backbenchers were really looking to make budgetary inroads on the equity angle.
But one bunch who are making great inroads over there are our dubstep producers. The Sun
When we finally started to make inroads and become popular, there was so much, at least as far as the band was concerned, undue attention being paid to my stuff.
So if one is in a good rhythm and making inroads, the other will be content to support him and do the donkey work. Times, Sunday Times
Rebel forces loyal to renegade leader Laurent Nkundu have made serious inroads into territory previously held by the Congolese army of President Joseph Kabila around the eastern town of Goma.
The result is a chilling portrait of a virus that had made major inroads into that population before anybody suspected a thing.
They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, The Last of the Mohicans
Video is making huge inroads into attendance figures at movie theaters .
From the first inroads of the whites upon what the Indians considered their lawful possessions, although by them unoccupied -- namely, the territory known as Kan-tuck-kee -- up to the year which opens our story, there had been scarcely any cessation of hostilities between the two races so antagonistical in their habits and principles. Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life
The campaign was successful and now Coke is making inroads into what was once a market void.
The Green are eager to make inroads into our batting.
He died before he could realize his aim of conquering the Chinese Empire to the South, but his descendants made inroads on China's spheres of influence, conquering Korea in 1637.
The juge d'instruction: there were going to be exasperating inroads into Kenworthy's leisure and freedom of movement. MOONDROP TO MURDER
The main aim is to boost economic growth so that the country finally can make real inroads into its huge unemployment problem. Times, Sunday Times
His perceived strength on national security should help him to unite his party behind his candidacy, and may enable him to make inroads into the Democratic base.
An announcement that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would visit the country next month signals a preliminary U.S. inroad into the poor, yet strategically important, country. China Cautious on Myanmar Reforms
Though scientists have tried to make inroads on this uncharted continent, mysteries remain about its topography.
Hospital bills had made deep inroads into her savings.
The company is now at a crucial stage in its development as it focuses on the European market and making inroads into its vending machine sector.
Heavy household chores made inroads upon Jane's health.
They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen them. The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757
_gratis_ -- a fact soon proved by the inroad of a few "rowdies," and the ubiquitous vendors of lollipops and peanuts, headed by the persevering distributor of hymns. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
It is very “filling”: you say jocosely to an Eastern threatened with a sudden inroad of guests, “Go, swamp thy rice with Raughan.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Made a couple of charges without making significant inroads. Times, Sunday Times
But other vendors are making inroads, citing what they call advantages over Harley in terms of cost and performance. Harley Faces Test in San Francisco Bake-Off
Indeed, cannot tell, unless pains are lessened by communication with a frt, which, with my own, was absorbing so much of my annual income, as that the maintenance of my family was making deep and rapid inroads on my capital, and had already done it. Letters
Already the children had made considerable inroads on the food.
If they can find consistency, and make early inroads with their specialist bowlers, they will be hard to stop. Times, Sunday Times
The output of social housing has failed to make real inroads into affordability.
Some York bands are already making inroads into the industry.
Rodrigo and Motamid rapidly began to make inroads into the border territory separating the Caliphates of Saragossa and Lerida.
It's a great way to get out of the red and make real inroads into your debt. The Sun
The government is definitely making inroads into the problem of unemployment.
It suggests a new innovative inroad of inspiration for fashion.
We have to improve in certain areas but we have made great inroads to the bigger clubs. Times, Sunday Times
A Marine being spokesman said the U.S. forces are making inroads into the city, the same spokesman adding, the Marines are winning every firefight they engage in.
Equally, the German Navy passed on decrypts of Allied traffic to Japan after 9 December 1941 only in its own cipher because of suspicions about Anglo-American inroads into Japanese systems.
This Montreal-based band has a cult following in Canada and is just beginning to make inroads into the British jazz scene.
But they never pretended to hold the region thus ravaged; it was sack, burn, plunder, and away; and these desolating inroads were retaliated in kind by the Moorish cavaliers, whose greatest delight was a "tala," or predatory incursion, into the Christian territories beyond the mountains. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
A police spokesman said: ‘We are hoping we can make some inroads because the damage these kids are causing is one of the major bugbears in the town.’
It suggests a new innovative inroad of inspiration for fashion.
When disco, that oft-maligned 1970s staple, began to make inroads into popular acceptance with acts like LCD Soundsystem and Franz Ferdinand , who welded its four-four beats to rock music, a crucial component of the genre was left out. New-Waving Hello in Hoboken
So far it seems that the trade down from restaurants to food at home has been a more dominant factor than any private-label inroads against branded food. Private-Label Goods Make
Stillington made major inroads into Harrogate's batting as they dismissed three home batsmen for ducks.
My theory is that skimo racing is finally making inroads into ski touring gear choices.
The accent of the American Deep South used to be non-rhotic, although rhoticity has also made great inroads there, as it has in New England, also a non-rhotic area in the past. On /r/s and ofs
But a disposal could make further inroads into its debt pile, taking it to below 1 billion. Times, Sunday Times
The interest and respectability of this new start in life, made a little fresh opposition to the inroads of her besetting sin; so that now she did not consume as much whisky in three days as she did in one when she had her houff on the shore. Sir Gibbie
There was a large concourse of mourners at his removal on Saturday evening to St. Laurence's Church Ballinroad and again on Sunday morning at his Requiem Mass and interment in the adjoining ceremony.
The company was functioning well as a business entity and making inroads all the time creatively.
His comments prompted accusations that he was backing away from his commitment to make early inroads into the deficit. Times, Sunday Times
The candidate made surprising inroads in the South.
Will the processors, which offer up to 60 percent better than Intel's last generation of chips, make short-term inroads into large data centers in the midst of a recession? Top Tech News
Meanwhile, the big construction companies are trying to grow by making inroads into turf traditionally held by medium-size builders.
Doctors are making great inroads in the fight against cancer.
Video is making huge inroads into attendance figures at movie theaters .
The inroads of the Lombards had filled the city with a multitude of indigent refugees, for whose support Gregory made provision, using for this purpose the existing machinery of the ecclesiastical districts, each of which had its deaconry or "office of alms". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
They have failed to make inroads into smartphone or touch-screen products," said Stefan Gaechter, at brokerage Helvea. Logitech Issues Third Profit Warning
they made inroads in the United States market
In Italy, as elsewhere, television has made deep inroads into cinema.
The administrative workload is making massive inroads into our working day .
The only player to have made any inroads is American Brian Stuard, who is three under through eight holes, four-under for the tournament. Undefined
B) Anti-evolutionism is making great inroads in the hotbed of religious fundamentalism that is Canada. Canadian council member speaks up
The only consolation was that their own fast game was making a few inroads. Times, Sunday Times
The Arawakan aborigines were about in the cultural status of our own Gulf tribes, subsisting chiefly by agriculture and practicing the simpler arts, but unfitted by their peaceful habit to withstand the inroads of the predatory Carib, whose very name is synonymous with "cannibal". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
Heavy household chores made inroads upon Jane's health.
Microsoft's blog abbreviation debacle comes as blogging in general and RSS specifically make inroads into more spheres of business and personal life.
Tax rises have made some inroads into the country's national debt.
The Scotch Presbyters, apart from their innate dislike to the use of any precomposed Form of Prayer, regarded the action of the King as an inroad upon the rights of the Church and roused themselves to resistance. Studies in the Book of Common Prayer
Video is making huge inroads into attendance figures at movie theaters .
They made great inroads which allowed our backs the room to play some open football.
The focus of interest here is the extent to which the building societies are likely to make inroads into traditional banking business.
Serious inroads into the 12 billion must be at the expense of a large proportion of seriously ill people. Times, Sunday Times
They have made significant inroads into the European market.
However, rehabilitation has made rather more significant inroads than is suggested by the formal description of the system.
Any Democratic ticket will need to make inroads into at least one Republican-leaning area, as well as keeping what Gore got in 2000.
Recently, online activism has been making inroads into the lives of mainstream Internet users.
White, a big-hitting right-hander who captured the Scottish National championships at the same venue last weekend, also made a couple of early inroads, before unforced errors started to creep into his game.
As women continue to make inroads into previously male-dominated areas, a trio of men have shown it can work both ways.
Some mode of defence is necessary to counteract and defeat these rubious prac - tices, to prevent this illicit trade and intercourse, and to stop the inroads and incursions of the pretended loyalists. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
In fact, Hitachi Metals, which had investment-casting experience in Japan, made inroads into the U.S. precombustion chamber market as early as 1981. Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies
While the network is years away from establishing a primetime schedule complete with its own brand of original programming, PAX is making inroads.
After two boundaries he was caught behind off Friedlander and the students felt they could make further inroads.
M & M is also making inroads into the European market, even as it signed a deal with Italy-based Eurasia Motors to assemble the vehicles and distribute them in that country.
We are making big inroads with our diesel injection technology, and currently we equip the Duramax and Cummins light truck diesel engines with our components.
In Manhattan, the borough president, Ruth Messinger, worked hard for me, as did her young aide, Marty Rouse, who helped me make inroads into the gay community.
I wondered if he wanted to separate me from Lord Golden lest he make any inroads on my loyalty to the Farseers. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The administrative workload is making massive inroads into our working day .
Well-formed chests offer no impediment to its inroads, if the volume of blood be out of proportion to the expansibility and capacity of the pulmonary organs. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
He is currently making inroads in African-American churches, and is spearheading a drive to take crosses out of the churches and have them replaced with crowns.
Women have made substantial inroads into the public world, flooding graduate schools and filling positions formerly reserved for men.
By making inroads in urban communities, Republicans could offset Democratic suburban gains and maintain electoral competitiveness.
For the rest of the first quarter that error seemed especially expensive as Bath struggled to make any other inroads into Falcons territory. Times, Sunday Times
Video is making huge inroads into attendance figures at movie theaters .
He hopes to bag another 20 seats; he might make inroads into more Labour urban heartlands - Hartlepool, perhaps - but Tory seats are still his prime pickings.
It is a spirit hardly to be maintained without a close organisation and much training; and as military and religious timocracies have depended on discipline and a minute rule of life, so an industrial timocracy would have to depend on guilds and unions, which would make large inroads upon personal freedom. The Life of Reason
They're visual trickery in fash form, a 12 quid inroad to cool. What I bought this week: witty tights
Heavy household chores made inroads upon Jane's health.
It presents an example of Chicana feminist rhetoric and an inroad to this rhetorical tradition.
In Manhattan, the borough president, Ruth Messinger, worked hard for me, as did her young aide, Marty Rouse, who helped me make inroads into the gay community.
Behind the scenes, though, the life assurance, banking and fund management giant is making inroads into China, Hong Kong and India, and consolidating its market-leading positions in its chosen UK markets.
Pavee's attacking sweeper played a dual role as a tough defender and made sleek wing attacks that resulted in major inroads into Big Players' defense.
He says it has made inroads into niche markets and scores highly on business banking, wealth management and mortgages.
By the 1950s, television had made great inroads into the territory of the news magazines.
In order to deter landing inroad and passing through the channel by enemy forces, the mining operation is also conducted on the occasion of making minefields on the shore or key channel where enemy landing invasions will be expected.
As a result, a cap of £10,000 would make a massive inroad into the finances of the main parties. Party funding shakeup rejection leaves committee urging promises kept
With passage of time, dry flowers are slowly making inroads into the fresh-flower market, to occupy a prime slot in homes and offices.
He now fronts his own one-man show and has made remarkable inroads into the local scene since November.
I'm just not convinced at all yet that git has made huge inroads on the usability level as its defenders often claim when discussing git vs. bzr. ls / usr / bin / git-* | wc - l Planet Twisted
The candidate made surprising inroads in the South.
The candidate made surprising inroads in the South.
Notwithstanding the difficult working conditions, a major inroad was made.
Hinduism's deepest inroads into Bali's animism came in the 16th century, after the armies of Islam had defeated the powerful Madjapahit Hindu dynasty.
Rebel brigades have made significant inroads in the north in recent weeks. Times, Sunday Times
Tax rises have made some inroads into the country's national debt.
An exclusive Scottish opinion poll conducted for Scotland on Sunday suggests the SNP is failing to make inroads in the key constituencies it must seize to win power, and it may even lose a seat to Labour.
The focus of interest here is the extent to which the building societies are likely to make inroads into traditional banking business.
So if one is in a good rhythm and making inroads, the other will be content to support him and do the donkey work. Times, Sunday Times
Tax rises have made some inroads into the country's national debt.
He also plans to make inroads by offering discount medical insurance products to small businesses.
We have our backs against the wall and have to front up in the morning and make some inroads. Times, Sunday Times
By mid-century, inroads were also being made into the near infrared.
The touring team made early inroads only to wilt badly in the afternoon. Times, Sunday Times
Judaism, so far from being merged in heathenism, made inroads by conversions on the idolatry of surrounding nations. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The rest of us have got to stand together and resist inroads from the dictators. Present Day Problems
It may also reference a sudden and violent inroad, or entrance of invaders.
Competitors' snugly-fitting, full-fashioned silk stockings responded better to the post-war changes in women's dress, and made deep inroads into the sale of traditional circular knit hosiery.
They're visual trickery in fash form, a 12 quid inroad to cool. What I bought this week: witty tights
In Italy, as elsewhere, television has made deep inroads into cinema.

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