Sentence examples for The foothold from inspiring English sources

The foothold that women have gained during the construction boom may expand in the coming years.

The foothold of British banks is narrow: they offer only basic banking products and have limited branch networks.

The foothold in Italy's 70 billion euro insurance market is Ergo's first major foray outside Germany since its creation in 1997.

The foothold gained on D-Day at Omaha, itself two isolated pockets, was the most tenuous across all the D-Day beaches.

The foothold being gained by populist, far-right parties in Europe and the hostile language employed by Donald Trump on his way to amassing a delegate lead for the Republican nomination may have little to do with religion itself.

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.

The crisis has resulted in the weakening of Iraqiya — and thereby of the foothold of Sunnis on a stake in public life — and the strengthening of Mr. Maliki's power, especially among his Shiite base.

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.