Sentence examples for modest inroads from inspiring English sources

Her first administration was popular, but made only modest inroads into reducing inequality.

Will Trump's presence so nationalize the election that down-ballot Republicans will face a brick wall when they try to make modest inroads among Hispanics?

It has made modest inroads in some industrial and medical applications — for treating post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans, for example.

And they have made modest inroads into his surreal levels of public approval by demonstrating that some of what originally ingratiated now just grates.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the august art of portrait painting has made modest inroads into the consciousnesses of the MySpace generation.

DUBAI — The insurance industry has made only modest inroads in North Africa, and that is unlikely to change, at least in the short term, as political transformations and other uncertainties shake the region.

Some Republicans had hoped to make at least small inroads among black voters in 2012 given lower African American turnout in the 2010 midterms, high black unemployment and the modest success of presidential candidate Herman Cain in the Republican primaries.

Still, capitalism is making small inroads.

An anti-immigrant, anti-European right seems to be looking for inroads, however modest, by the British National Party, which scored small gains in local elections last week, and by extreme right-wing parties in Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy and France itself, feeding on disenchantment with the entrenched political elites.

Things as simple as prevention of malaria and tetanus; keeping the newborn warm; exclusive breastfeeding; early recognition of illness and seeking care can make huge inroads with modest resources.

Things as simple as prevention of malaria and tetanus; keeping the newborn warm: exclusive breastfeeding; and early recognition of illness and seeking care can make huge inroads with much more modest resources.