The phrase "prevent inroads" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to stop or prevent something or someone from making progress or gaining influence. Example: "The company implemented stricter security measures to prevent inroads into their confidential data by hackers."
The warfare continued as a series of border skirmishes for a number of years, but Ismāʿīl remained strong enough to prevent further inroads by the Ottomans.
Professor Keith Willett National clinical director for acute care, NHS England David Owen cites Scotland as an example of the people power he hopes can be harnessed to preserve the NHS and prevent the inroads of marketisation (How to take back the NHS before it's too late, 1 December).
Ine's predecessor, Cædwalla, had made himself overlord of most of these southern kingdoms, though he had not been able to prevent Mercian inroads along the upper Thames.
This didn't stop Mr. Bush from praising General Musharraf for his recently negotiated "truce" to prevent further Taliban inroads in northwestern Pakistan.
| "Gangster Squad" (Jan . 11 stars Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling as police detectives who try to prevent Eastern mobsters from making inroads in Los Angeles.
That could allow Intel to seed the market with low-power chips and prevent Transmeta from making major inroads.
Proteomics seems to have all the attributes necessary to provide the needed breakthrough in understanding the physiopathology of idiopathic preterm birth and to identify novel inroads to help prevent its occurrence.
They coped far better than they would have done four years ago, but they could not prevent the England bowlers making some inroads at last.
The agreement was an attempt by the United States and other democracies in the cold war to support the economies of developing countries and prevent the Communists from making political inroads.
BERLIN — After making an impassioned plea earlier for a free-trade zone with the European Union, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia changed his tone Friday by sharply criticizing Brussels for its energy policies, which he claimed would hinder investment and prevent the state-owned energy giant Gazprom from making inroads into the European market.
