Sentence examples for solid inroads from inspiring English sources

Still, Microsoft is moving beyond its mainstay desktop market by making solid inroads into the lucrative business of corporate computing.

He insisted, however, that the company was making solid inroads into the restructuring of the group in the US and the UK and termed the progress made in the first half as an "encouraging beginning of a long journey".

The P.K.I. made strong inroads in Central & East Java.

Republicans are hoping to use the energy fight to make inroads into the solid labor union support of Democrats.

Apart from constructing a solid defensive barrier, they made inroads, in company with one or two of the forwards, in testing their opponents in the wider midfield areas.

(Chinen) JONATHAN BATISTE TRIO (Monday) Jonathan Batiste hails from a tradition of poised and percussive New Orleans pianists, and he has lately been making inroads with this solid working trio.

He made slight inroads among Hispanic voters, a solid part of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's base.

And it is here that the Liberals have made deep inroads into what was once solid Labor territory.Liberal politics, reckons one pundit, is about ignoring the people who are never going to vote for you, ignoring the people who are always going to vote for you and concentrating on those in the middle.

While universal memory is still several years out, solid-state flash drives are starting to make inroads as a long-term storage alternative.

Importantly, the 1964 and 1968 elections signaled the death of the Democratic "Solid South," as both Goldwater and Nixon made significant inroads there.

President Bush won the I-4 corridor in 2004, but Mr. Obama has made inroads, and recent polls showed him with a solid edge over Mr. McCain statewide.