Once U.S. forces have gained a foothold at an airport, they can bring in surveillance aircraft, such as the unmanned Predator, to keep a close eye on all parts of the area, experts said.
Fury looked what he is on the press conference stage, a man scrambling for a foothold at sport's high table, confusing punchlines with presence.
The organization, a branch of a nondenominational campus ministry, has a foothold at 60 universities around the country, with 50 full-time staff members organizing on campuses.
Seduction, love, talent are all tools for climbing the greasy pole to success, and along with filthy lucre, a means of buying a foothold at the aristocratic summit.
Through association with the aristocracy, they gradually established a foothold at court.
Southwest Airlines is faltering in its attempt to gain a foothold at Washington's Reagan National Airport.
Anything and everything suggestive of the East gains a foothold at Tao.
It may be that a movement away from intellectualized art is now gaining a foothold at some schools, including Yale.
"Sex and the City" at least gave women's lives, however romanticized, a foothold at the multiplex.
Another advance at Basra, he said, had given American troops "a foothold" at Basra airport on Sunday, but other troops trying to approach a crucial bridge guarding the approaches to the city had been driven back.
