Sentence examples for My foothold from inspiring English sources

"I thought I might lose some of my foothold in the business," he said.

But 18 months ago my foothold was not on the sheer cliff of senectitude but upon that plateau that Proust himself might have called "entre deux âges".

Clouds Have Been My Foothold All Along shows his glass portrait heads of Picasso and Helmut Kohl, vitreographs from his Night of the Crystal Death – My Love to Anne Frank, a version of his monumental installation Narcissus and the Fountain of Youth, his "anti-functional" free-blown works, and paintings and drawings.

Simply put, I've struggled, as so many of us have, to find my foothold, my place in the world.

Later, I found my own foothold in mind-body-spirit, particularly in interfaith spirituality, where people of all faiths can worship alongside each other.

'Trust to your feet, Jossy,' yells Guido, as I scrabble for a foothold with my crampons in the hard-packed ice below me.

"At first they were very tied up in racing, because it was the world I knew," says Dick. "Then I started to look a bit more widely, although most of my books have some foothold in the racing world".

He chose to soothe his wounded pride and balm his aggrieved heart by kidnapping me to gain a controlling foothold over my mother.

I lived and studied in London, Geneva, Vienna, Leiden (close to Amsterdam) and I travelled for interviews or personal pleasure in over 50 countries, but I need a foothold for my adventures.

In the second dig I struggled to find my rhythm: the footholds were a bit deep and I couldn't get any grip.Then I had to bowl at Gilchrist and Michael Clarke in full flight.

The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country.