inroad
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an encroachment or intrusion "they made inroads in the United States market" -
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an invasion or hostile attack
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ĭn*rōd" To make an inroad into; to invade. "The Saracens . . . conquered Spain, inroaded Aquitaine."
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A predatory or hostile incursion; a raid by public enemies; a temporary or desultory invasion. -
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Forcible entrance; powerful or sudden influx or incursion; forcible or insidious encroachment. -
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To make an inroad into; invade. -
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To make an inroad; encroach; depredate.
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in′rōd an incursion into an enemy's country: a sudden invasion: attack: encroachment.
Renewed Republican control of the House has moved into view as Election Day's initial returns show Democrats failing to make inroads into the GOP's current majority in the chamber. lcsun-news.com
Islam 's inroads in Haiti, land of Voodoo and Christianity. poughkeepsiejournal.com
Since then, Embraer has made equally significant inroads as a designer and manufacturer of regional jets . forbes.com
Brazilian firm Embraer made significant inroads as a designer and manufacturer of regional jets . forbes.com
A slew of assassinations of Afghan officials has the US and the Afghan government on edge about Taliban inroads, particularly in the south, where the assassinations have been concentrated. csmonitor.com
How does an American-based company make deeper inroads in China after it has already introduced some of its popular, long-established brands. nytimes.com
American-style EDM makes inroads at Sonar and in Ibiza. spin.com
MAKING INROADS The new bike lane on Commonwealth Avenue. nytimes.com
NAACP worry of GOP inroads to blacks misplaced . usatoday.com
(AP) — In his bid to take Nevada, Mitt Romney made inroads among several voting groups that had been solidly behind President Barack Obama. newsok.com
Gas and Oil Industry Making Inroads in Austin, a Haven for Clean Energy Jobs. nytimes.com
Women are slowly making inroads in the gender pay gap. csmonitor.com
The Pathway Home Makes Inroads in Treating PTSD. smithsonianmag.com
Precast highway pavement is making inroads around the country. theconcreteproducer.com
Today's Politico article says that the GOP has made huge inroads into seats thought to be safe including the seat currently held by Charles Wilson and the seat held by Marcy Kaptur from Toledo. salemnews.net
These two directions present opportunities for the HCI community to make inroads to recommender systems research which needs such expertise.
A Connection-Centric Survey of Recommender Systems Research
The use of SOMs has made considerable inroads in the meteorology community with regard to developing synoptic weather states to describe the collection of available weather patterns across a region.
Interpreting self-organizing maps through space--time data models
Therefore, during the next several years we can be hopeful that direct detection experiments will improve to make meaningful inroads to the supersymmetric dark matter parameter space.
Theoretical Aspects of Dark Matter Detection
These notions can be seen as dualizations of notions from model theory and they offer inroads to the study of compact Hausdorff spaces by algebraic, and in particular lattice-theoretic, means.
A concrete co-existential map that is not confluent
Cameron et al. 2008; Hanasoge 2008) and ray (Moradi & Cally 2008) propagation in magnetized atmospheres have been developed and are beginning to make inroads into this problem.
Numerical Models of Travel-Time Inhomogeneities in Sunspots
No remedy possesses equal powers in protecting internal organs from the dangerous inroad of this disease. "Apis Mellifica" by
The excitement of yesterday makes inroads on thy mind. "Saronia" by
Then what would be the security against a new inroad of the exterminated vice? "Select Temperance Tracts" by
Each nation complained that the borderers of the other made inroads over the frontier. "Pyrrhus" by
As a further precaution against the inroads of absolutism, no lawyer was allowed to be a deputy to the junta and all clergy were likewise excluded. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3" by
His most destructive wars were rather inroads than conquests. "The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07" by
We see them perverted or suspended by the sudden inroad of disease. "Popular Education" by
It must have made an inroad even in his large fortune. "Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905" by
This change and desecration, this inroad of modernness, merely completes its eternity. "The Spirit of Rome" by
Much troubled and opposed by the Sandal-wooders, he had yet acquired the language and was making progress by inroads on Heathenism. "The Story of John G. Paton" by
To Earth's exhausting avarice,
To Air's destructive inroads,
An antidote opposed.