Sentence examples for a footing as from inspiring English sources

But from the sidelines, we worry that the administration is not on as sure a footing as it should be".

This band has played in New York just once before, in January, and doesn't yet have as solid a footing as its precursors.

Leicester, defending a five-metre scrum, brought on replacement props in Dan Cole and Logovi'i Mulipola, but they failed to get a footing as the Tigers scrum went backwards, then sideways and finally down.

"I'd like people to think of me as someone who continues to make sure that the company is on as firm a footing as a nonprofit organization, an arts organization, can be," she said.

"What most really seasoned insiders think is that we are on as bad a footing as we've seen in a long, long time," said Peter Goldmark, who served as the state's budget director in the 1970s and was one of the engineers of the city's rescue from the brink of bankruptcy.

When the 156th Brigade arrived from Sh. Ajlin on the Wadi el Hesi, the 157th Brigade attacked the southern portion of the ridge, and gained a footing as darkness fell.

The Federation Tower started out on a shaky financial footing as well.

ITZKOFF: Nobody stomps a foot as furiously as Mumford.

The sea level in New York harbour has gone up a foot as the climate has warmed.

On the original landing page, the mascot was depicted missing a foot, as a sort of an inverse image of a lucky rabbit's foot.

Ms. Muhr said Hofstadl, a fully restored antique chalet, is a rarity in Austria and priced appropriately at about $1,055 a foot, as a "collector's item".