Sentence examples for Acquire a foothold from inspiring English sources

E.ON, which currently lacks a presence in those markets, has made no secret of its desire to enter Britain and acquire a foothold in the United States.

And even if the Chinese military could somehow acquire a foothold, it has the capacity to move only about 20,000 troops by sea and air at a time.

HOUSTON — Trying to acquire a foothold in the American oil patch, a Chinese company is closing in on a deal to buy stakes in a few drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico from a Norwegian company, an executive close to the talks said.

In a bid to acquire a foothold in low-cost generics, the Japanese firm paid 737 rupees a share last June, forking out a premium of 31% to the company's stock price at the time.

The related malware (wuservice.dll and Wuservice.dll) that attempted to acquire a foothold on targets' machines and grab information was also known to a handful, but not all antivirus vendors.

The motive force of the observed rapid flow shifts into the motive force of cell advancement when the cells attach to the substratum and acquire a foothold.

France first acquired a foothold in the area in the 1860s.

Siemens acquired a foothold in the industry by buying the Danish company Bonus Energy in 2004.

For $315 a month, he acquired a foothold in an Art Deco building that would escape many of the ravages that beset the city in the 1970s.

The avionics and engine-components firm belongs more logically under the wing of the powerful GE Aviation Systems business, which, with this deal, acquired a foothold in Europe.

But for American officials, it raises the troubling spectre of Islamic fundamentalism acquiring a foothold close to the American mainland.The arrested men are all Afro-Caribbean converts to Islam.