inroads

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Inroads cannot be made in reducing personal or institutional racial bias without first admitting it exists.

From Washington Times • Nov. 8, 2019

Inroads to the thermostat were discovered by a student who was as persistent as he was headstrong.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2013

At just 18, she was placed as an intern with Pitney Bowes--a mail-and-document-management company in Stamford, Conn.-- by Inroads, a career-development group for urban minority youths.

From Time Magazine Archive

Working with Inroads, a national organization that places talented minority youths in businesses, Andersen recruits in high schools, offering qualifying graduates summer internships for up to four years after graduation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inroads of barbarians only add a little to the other woes, or hasten an end which is inevitable and is expected with resignation.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham