Sentence examples for * the foothold from inspiring English sources
But it gave me the foothold I needed to find my way in.
When he came across a line of relatives from Naudero, it gave him the foothold he needed.
In those he gets the foothold he needs: new colors emerge in his voice; the phrases are suddenly tauter, his tone more focused.
One of them, the foothold or leghold trap, catches the paw and holds the animal until the trapper arrives and kills it.
Formula One may not have made the foothold in the United States that it has in many other parts of the world, but you would not know that this weekend in New York City.
Mark Lawson ITV2, 11 September Boardwalk Empire A series that never quite gained the foothold that many expected it to, Boardwalk Empire is about to come to an end.
Many new species pop up in the aftermath of mass extinctions, but not all mass extinctions cause a sea change: A new study finds that like often replaces like, and that only three of history's five big extinctions were drastic enough to give the newest--and often most complex and adaptable organisms--the foothold they needed to dominate the oceans.
In addition, a foothold search algorithm that provides the valid foothold while maintaining a high traversability of the robot, is investigated and a gait selection algorithm is developed to help the robot avoid deadlock situations.
Air France-KLM would like to maintain the Italian foothold that its partnership with Alitalia has brought as it seeks to return to profitability by 2015.
Centuries of decay often left small stones and dust as the only foothold on this section of the Wall built during the Ming Dynasty.
Once an epidemic was under way, those doctors were granted broad police-like powers, and they established the first foothold of federal authority in the South since the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
