Sentence examples for inroads were made from inspiring English sources

Deep inroads were made at a number of points.

The first inroads were made in 1895 by the French mathematician Henri Poincaré, who was drawn into topology from complex function theory and differential equations.

During his ministry, French domination was established in French West Africa, Madagascar, and Tunisia; inroads were made in Algeria; and French resistance to the British in the Sudan was promoted.

Early inroads were made into South Africa's top order as they lost Hashim Amla, caught at mid-on off Stokes, and AB de Villiers, top-edging Jordan to fine leg.

Although the Germanic people had eddied about the Danube and Rhine frontiers of the empire since the 2nd century, their major inroads were made only in the latter half of the 4th century, when the ferocious Huns drove the Ostrogoths and Visigoths to seek refuge within the Danubian frontier of the empire.

"After the Stephen Lawrence inquiry there was a lot of activity within the Met and major inroads were made, but in recent years race has been put on the back burner and that has been a concern of the association," Powell said.

The Texas study showed the inroads being made by the Internet are broad.

Often with victims as their alibi, huge inroads are made into civil liberties.

In 1972 Chavez sought assistance from the AFL-CIO, which offered help against the inroads being made by the Teamsters.

But both have found it hard, just as Thatcher did, to prevent inroads being made on their power by their hommes fatals.

Something else? Instead, each recommendation seems to be motivated by paranoia about the inroads being made by what the report describes as lower-quality content.