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inroads

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Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last. Lydia Maria Child

The repugnance of the Hindus against foreigners increased more and more when the Muslims began to make their inroads into their country. Al-Biruni

My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation. Robert C. Merton

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection. Ambrose Bierce

Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions. Arthur Ashe

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude. John Lothrop Motley

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