(n.) The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment.
(v. t.) To make an inroad into; to invade.
Example Sentences:
(1) That unit, he said, had made some inroads in tackling extremism in prisons.
(2) In spite of inroads made by CT, ultra-sonography, radionuclide scans, and other modalities, there is still diagnostic information that is best supplied by the IVU.
(3) This side will kill them, that side will kill them.” However, with the launch of their annual spring offensive, the Taliban has made recent inroads in several Afghan provinces.
(4) Responding to news of the Delta deal, which began to circulate on Thursday , Harry Breach, an analyst at Westhouse Securities, said the deal could help Rolls-Royce and Airbus make inroads into the American market.
(5) The poll also shows that while the public is increasingly fearful of deteriorating economic conditions, Labour is making only limited inroads as a result.
(6) We've made inroads into tackling it, but the key now is keeping up momentum.
(7) The devices I'd seen were already becoming popular in Asia, and now they're making serious inroads in other parts of the world, including America.
(8) The formal investigation could recommend that individual big six members separate their units that generate power from those units that sell it to households to try to make inroads into their 95% market share.
(9) 5.40pm BST 40 min : Uruguay have the ball but, faced with diligent and numerous Italians, they can't make any inroads.
(10) As an example, it is an accepted fact that dentistry more than any other profession has made serious inroads into putting itself out of business through research.
(11) Ermir Lanjani, making inroads with his persistence on the left, saw a shot deflect off Patrice Evra.
(12) Therefore, while significant inroads have been made in understanding the initial events, we still do not fully understand all the processes involved in the proliferation of arterial intimal lesions.
(13) Real now have half the time to do the job they were make any inroads into in the first period.
(14) He added: “What we are saying is that there is a series of steps that we can take, some quite quickly, that over a couple of years should make real inroads into the numbers of preventable deaths.” A government spokesman said: “It is vital that all services – NHS , prisons and the police – are honest and open when things go wrong and work with families and staff to prevent further tragedies.
(15) The results indicated that alteplase has made dramatic inroads, being used exclusively in 14.6% of the hospitals; in 64% of the hospitals both alteplase and streptokinase were on the formulary.
(16) As China makes economic and developmental inroads into Africa it may only be a matter of time before Mauritania's largely untapped resources come into focus.
(17) The volume levels among the crowd at the bottom of the 3.5km run at Rosa Khutor then rose appreciably as Miller made inroads on Mayer's time at the top of the course.
(18) They are looking for equality, they want respect from the world’s space community.” To that end, China’s biggest inroad has been made with the ESA through the space science programme.
(19) No school or teacher can be expected to pick up something like preventing violence against women and their children and make inroads in entrenched societal issues like gender inequality – the key driver of violence against women.
(20) Meanwhile they have seen their rivals make serious inroads on the summer transfer market.
Invade
Definition:
(v. t.) To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.
(v. t.) To enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack; as, the Romans invaded Great Britain.
(v. t.) To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people.
(v. t.) To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.
(v. i.) To make an invasion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ukip and the Greens are beneficiaries of this new political reality – as, arguably, is the SNP as it prepares to invade Labour’s heartland in Scotland next May.
(2) In cancer of the pancreas head, cancer cells could invade the portal vein and perineural space of the celiac plexus, and metastasize to regional lymph nodes around the celiac axis.
(3) It is apparent that in the development of reactive arthritis the patient fails in his first line of defence against the invading microorganism.
(4) All three parasite lines required sialic acid for optimal invasion, but Thai-2 parasites cultured in Tn erythrocytes invaded neuraminidase-treated erythrocytes with 45% efficiency whereas Camp parasites invaded neuraminidase-treated erythrocytes with less than 10% efficiency.
(5) The conclusion is that AIDS has invaded Taiwan, but the prevalence of the HIV infection is presently low.
(6) They have similar axon trajectories into the thoracic ganglia, where they invade functionally related neuropils.
(7) Worms had invaded the bile duct in 51 patients, the pancreatic duct in four and both ducts in four.
(8) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(9) Survival rates after curative gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer among 238 patients in whom the cancer was invading the serosa were compared with 283 patients without serosal invasion.
(10) The immune system has evolved to protect an organism from the pathogens that invade it but the effector mechanisms involved in mediating this protection are potentially lethal to the host itself.
(11) In this report, it will be stressed that when clival chordoma invades intradually, subtemporal approach will be most favorable, and metrizamide CT cisternography is one of the useful diagnostic procedures of retroclival mass.
(12) On 21 August 1968, armies of five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany – invaded Czechoslovakia to crush democratic reforms known as the Prague spring.
(13) He had undergone pelvic exenteration with the ureterostomy for rectal cancer invading the bladder five months previously and retrograde ureteric catheters were inserted bilaterally into the ureters.
(14) The Sunni, driven from power and office by the invaders, were unwilling to accept their newly diminished status.
(15) Pterygia, triangular sheets of fibrovascular tissue that invade the cornea, have recurrence rates of 30% to 50% with currently available surgical procedures.
(16) Infections of Leishmania mexicana in cultured normal mouse peritoneal macrophages show different morphological features depending on whether the parasites invade as promastigote or amastigote forms.
(17) The interstitium between alveoli is invaded with lymphocytes, macrophages, plasma cells and fibroblasts.
(18) The hypoxic fraction increased dramatically when these tumours invaded the subcutaneous tissues, or when tumours were implanted subcutaneously (TCD50 greater than 5,544 rad).
(19) "Russia has invaded a sovereign neighbouring state and threatens a democratic government elected by its people.
(20) This report presents a patient with a tumor of the splenic flexure invading the diaphragm, greater curvature of the stomach, splenic hilum, and tail of the pancreas.