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Football in Central America struggled to gain a significant foothold in competition against baseball.

The deal also gives Valero, a major American oil refiner, its first significant foothold in Europe.

Expedia, the American travel website, entered India in 2008, but has yet to gain a significant foothold.

They didn't have a significant foothold and now they do, which they put down in no small part to that deal"."But I think it's marginal at the bottom of the league," Maguire adds.

AOL Time Warner yesterday gained a significant foothold in Europe when it agreed the £1.15bn acquisition of IPC Media, the consumer magazine business behind titles including Marie Claire, NME, Horse & Hound and TV Times.

Social sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter have never managed to gain a significant foothold in China, partly because of government blocking and censorship and partly because most major Chinese Internet companies offer popular social networking features of their own.

To compensate for slow growth in developed economies like the United States, the company has been seeking significant footholds in emerging markets like Mexico.

This prompted the giant oil firms, which had already developed significant footholds in Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela, to scour the global South in search of new reserves to exploit -- a saga told with great gusto in Daniel Yergin's epic history of the oil industry, The Prize.

But the fact the BNP achieved a significant electoral foothold before imploding should serve as a stark warning to mainstream politicians who too often take large swaths of the electorate for granted.

In November, News Corporation, Fox's parent, gained a significant television foothold outside Los Angeles when it acquired 49 percent of the YES Network, the Yankees' channel, with an option to buy up to 80 percent in three years.

So the 3rd Gen console war is on the brink of beginning and Microsoft has already declared a significant market foothold.