Inroads

The army made inroads into the neighboring country.

We've made great inroads into solving the problem, but our resources dwindle and the end is not in sight.

Chinese phone companies are beginning to make serious inroads into the US market.

If the government is serious about making inroads into the backlog of asylum applications, they should allocate additional funding.

She could never find the motivation to make significant inroads into the work piling up in her in-tray.

Socialism is making inroads with the American youth.

There have been inroads against ever growing urban illumination. The International Dark Sky Association in Tucson, Arizona, a group that claims 3,600 members in more than 70 countries, says efforts to curb excess light are under way from the Australian Outback to Britain's Sherwood Forest. In the Czech Republic, an anti-air pollution law also fights light pollution by requiring shielded fixtures to block upward beams. Laws have also been enacted in Chile, thanks to persuasive astronomers who staff the three big observatories there.