Sentence examples for a foothold from from inspiring English sources

A senior Marine officer said the marine withdrawal reduced the occupied part of the city to 10percentt, a "foothold," from 25percentt.

Ankara sees YPG militants, who are affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK), as vying to own areas they have never before controlled, to establish a foothold from Irfin in Syria's north-west to the Iraqi border, a frontier dominated for decades by Arabs.

Gravity Jack will work with them (and cover costs) to develop a solution that addresses their needs, then use that as a foothold from which to reach others in the space that might (perhaps rightfully) be wary of adopting the technology.

The biofilm enables Nocardia spp. to protect themselves from the relatively low serum concentrations of antimicrobial drugs given orally and, hence, create a foothold from which they can invade the bloodstream through the surface of the CVC intravascular segment.

This study provides a foothold from which to gain further insight into the interactions and importance of cell cycle G0/G1 arrest on recombinant protein secretion and the related signaling pathways.

In Piaf's youth, when she might have crossed paths with Jane Avril and Django Reinhardt, tenements like hers were a haven for political refugees — Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Spaniards — and they later served as a foothold for immigrants from the former French colonies in Africa and Indochina.

That is not surprising in a neighborhood that has always been a foothold for immigrants, including arrivals from Scandinavian countries, Italy and most recently, Egypt, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East.

[The marketplace] is a great way to get a foothold and from this offer larger subscriptions and more traditional enterprise deals".

A victory in Mississippi: Voters in the Magnolia State defeated a ballot initiative that would have declared that life begins at fertilization, which supporters saw as a legislative foothold from which to launch a challenge to reproductive rights nationwide.

But, surprisingly, I find myself experiencing an ambivalent nostalgia for the unsophisticated past and a hope that Peekskill, in its new multidimensionality, will remember its hardscrabble dreamy-eyed misfits and continue to provide a solid foothold from which they may aspire.

But Passau is a "white spot" on the map where far-right groups are trying to gain a foothold with help from allies on the other side of the border with Austria, says Mr Synek.