(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.
Invasion
Definition:
(n.) The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
(n.) A warlike or hostile entrance into the possessions or domains of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder.
(n.) The incoming or first attack of anything hurtful or pernicious; as, the invasion of a disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
(2) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
(3) Implantation of the mouse embryo involves the invasion of the secondary trophoblast giant cells of the ectoplacental cone (EPC) into the uterine decidua.
(4) We have used a modification of the rotating-frame imaging technique to measure PCr-to-ATP ratio non-invasively in human heart.
(5) Thirty had an in situ tumor (mean age: 30 years) and 34 had an invasive adenocarcinoma (mean age: 45 years), 7 of whom died of their cancer.
(6) This case is unusual in that it demonstrated no malignant epithelium beyond that of a borderline tumor, but met the criteria of malignancy because of its invasiveness and metastasis.
(7) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
(8) Rifampin is recommended as a prophylactic treatment for intimate contacts of young children who develop invasive infections with Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).
(9) It is concluded that the transcutaneous ultrasound technique provides a reliable, rapidly available, non-invasive method to confirm the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
(10) Subsequent radiological follow-up demonstrated the rapid growth of the tumor hence exhibiting a very invasive form.
(11) The circle rate correlated with the extent of mural invasion.
(12) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
(13) The diagnosis of meningeal cyst was confirmed in a non-invasive way by MRI showing a mass with the same signal intensities as CSF on both T1 and T2 weighted images.
(14) The carcinoma and lymphoma of the stomach were both small, and the depth of invasion was localized to the mucosa and submucosa, respectively.
(15) A transurethral prostatic resection for prostatism in a 73 year old man showed a cluster of richly capillarised clear cells originally thought to be indicative of invasive carcinoma.
(16) However, the typically deep invasion of the former tumors and their histologic features indicate that they are highly aggressive neoplasms.
(17) The presence of prostatic invasion either into the stroma or involving prostatic ducts and acini only had no adverse effect on outcome.
(18) Fifty-seven patients underwent local excision of an invasive distal rectal cancer as an initial operative procedure with curative intent.
(19) That most of the neoplasms found were adenomas and not invasive cancer may be due to the relative youth of most of those screened.
(20) At 24 weeks, 24-h mean blood pressures (MBP), measured invasively, were 121 mmHg (perindopril), 137 mmHg (captopril), 140 mmHg (hydralazine), 149 mmHg (isradipine) and 146 mmHg (metoprolol), compared to control values of 177 mmHg (SHR) and 132 mmHg (Wistar-Kyoto rats, WKY).