During the following decades the vitality of the General Baptists was drained by the inroads of skepticism, and their churches generally dwindled and died or became Unitarian.
We blur the lines of what it supposedly "means" to be a man or a woman; we obliterate conventional definitions of sexual orientation and sexuality; we lie at the intersection of so many forms of oppression (sexism, homophobia, racism) that successfully taking on transgender issues makes inroads into many of their strongholds.
Contador, a three-time winner, and his compatriot Samuel Sanchez looked as if they may make inroads into the rest of their rivals as they pressed in the final kilometres.
The movie is a comically earnest yet winkingly pastiche-y version of the events surrounding a real-life unit of the L.A.P.D., whose members, in the late forties, removed their badges and, to combat the inroads of the organized-crime boss Mickey Cohen, themselves went gangster on the Mob's enterprises.
As a senior official of America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) admits, they have "played the regulatory game well", using their local monopoly power to restrain the inroads of the CLECs.
The struck chains say they are trying to adapt to a changing marketplace in which their business has been hurt by the inroads of huge low-cost stores like Wal-Mart, typically nonunion.
But it wasn't long before some of them, moving behind the liquor racks to find the privacy they needed to speak more candidly, said the faith campaign had made deep inroads into their ration of fun.
Intimate yet not especially explicit, the scene affirms the desirability of women past their youthful prime: Ms. Baye's charm and spirit upstage the inroads of time.
They, like companies elsewhere, have also made deep inroads into China, where many of their factories are.
Andrew Hagger at personal finance website MoneyComms said that if TSB was going to carry on offering existing products, "I don't think they are going to make massive inroads into their competitors' slice of the market".
