(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.
Raid
Definition:
(n.) A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
(n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
(v. t.) To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.
Example Sentences:
(1) One is the right not to be impeded when they are going to the House of Commons to vote, which may partly explain why the police decided to arrest Green and raid his offices last week on Thursday, when the Commons was not sitting.
(2) It will form part of an investigation launched by the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, on the orders of David Cameron to determine the British government's actions over the raid on Sikhism's holiest site in Amritsar.
(3) The raids began a year ago in Marylebone, but they have recently spread to the West End.
(4) Their brief was to eradicate cross-border raids by Palestinian fedayeen (guerrillas), yet many felt the overzealous Sharon was becoming a law unto himself.
(5) Stationed in Sarajevo, he became fascinated by special forces methods there and insisted on going on a night raid with them.
(6) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(7) Gaddafi's residence, now gutted and covered with graffiti, was also targeted in a US bombing raid in April 1986, after Washington held Libya responsible for a blast at a Berlin disco that killed two American servicemen.
(8) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
(9) Shaky phone footage of the raid that circulated online showed the vigilantes kicking, slapping and insulting the men, with one of them slumped naked on the ground during the attack.
(10) The raids came after three separate federal indictments in the biggest investigation to date into trade-based drug money laundering, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
(11) On Friday, at the modest five-storey block of flats in the Quartier des Abattoirs where he had lived and which was raided by officers from the elite RAID unit at 9.30am,neighbours described him as a quiet and “not very religious” man.
(12) She devotes countless hours every week to meeting with her lawyer and officials from Russia's Investigative Committee, which raided her flat in early June.
(13) During their detention by Pakistani authorities the women, one of whom was wounded in the Abbottabad raid, were interviewed by American intelligence agencies.
(14) Police arrested her in September in a raid on a club on Iracema beach, a crowded neighbourhood packed with lively restaurants, hotels and bars.
(15) The Greek finance ministry's financial crimes unit conducted the raids, and says it has many other groups in its sights.
(16) It is called falling off the swing,” said Soames, when he tried to explain all this to me, “and getting hit on the back of the head by the roundabout.” There are times, when considering Serco, that it begins to resemble Milo Minderbinder’s syndicate, M&M Enterprises, in the novel Catch-22, which starts out trading melons and sardines between opposing armies in the second world war, and ends up conducting bombing raids for commercial reasons.
(17) The abduction early Thursday comes amid anger among Libya's powerful Islamic militant groups over the US special forces raid on Saturday that seized a Libyan al-Qaida suspect known as Abu Anas al-Libi.
(18) There had been simmering tension between the Tottenham Hotspur manager and officers since a dawn raid on his Dorset home that was watched by press photographers.
(19) At least that seemed to be the lesson last week when the autumn statement confirmed a further £600m raid on the troubled universal credit – a move that didn't cause a ripple.
(20) The Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood has indeed criticised the Saudi air raids in Yemen in parliament, and called on Riyadh to be quicker to establish public inquiries into its errors.