Sentence examples for a foothold that from inspiring English sources

The caliphate now straddles swathes of Syria and Iraq Egyptt's Sinai peninsula is becoming a war zone; and the chaos of Libya is giving jihadists a foothold that could become a "province" on Europe's doorstep.

Today, Shiite fighters help the Syrian government to hold the area around Sayida Zeinab — a foothold that helps prevent rebels from fully encircling Mr. Assad's seat of power in Damascus.

While China is not expected to lift its broader ban on foreign broadcasts soon, today's deal gives AOL a foothold that could be expanded if China ever does relax the rules.

Leftist groups here say the real objective is to give the United States a foothold that would allow it to seize the Brazilian Amazon and thus command the southern flank of Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chávez.

Austerity had been dealt a blow by democracy, he said, giving his nascent movement in Spain a foothold that could prove crucial in the coming year as municipal, regional and general elections pit Podemos against the bipartisan political system that has ruled Spain since the death of Franco.

According to this method, when the robot puts its foot on the ground, it applies some excess force and confirms whether the foothold is stable, and then chooses a foothold that does not collapse.

Meizu's another in a long list of Chinese phone makers with a strong foothold that has yet to make a dent in the US market.

He said that it gained Ciara a "radio foothold that had been hers to lose a couple of years ago", and commented that it seemed like "a bargain-basement Justin Timberlake track, the sort of thing he could've had lying around in a closet somewhere nearly three years after FutureSex/LoveSounds".

But if we can bring the buildup into our awareness, we gain a mental foothold that allows us to short-circuit what otherwise would become a destructive emotional hijack.

If EADS had won the tanker contract, it planned to eventually assemble commercial freighter planes at the plant in Mobile, giving it a manufacturing foothold that could help expand other sales in the United States.

"So delicately balanced was she between an old foothold that had always guaranteed her security and the imminence of a leap from which she must alight changed in the very chemistry of blood and muscle that she did not dare bring the matter into the true forefront of consciousness".