Sentence examples for a large foothold from inspiring English sources

The Nationalists' triumph was almost complete and they now have a large foothold in the parliament of a country that they wish to dismember.

The move will give Google a large foothold in the online travel search market, and control over a critical data source used by many of its competitors, including Kayak.com, Orbitz.com and Microsoft's Bing.

In the past few months, we have gained a large foothold in Chinese-speaking households in the U.S. by offering tailor-made products and content for this community.

We have gained a large foothold in Chinese-speaking households in the U.S. by offering tailor-made products and content that are optimized for this community and we see a strong momentum to help us grow from there.

Google wants to gain a larger foothold in China, she says, and is "considering Sina as a buyout".

So far, at least in Germany, the far right has not been able to capitalize on economic turmoil to gain a larger foothold.

In a move that would give News Corporation a larger foothold in the lucrative pay TV business in Australia, Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate said it has agreed to pay roughly $2.2 billion to acquire Consolidated Media Holdings.

The fastest growing party is not the A.N.C. or the opposition Democratic Alliance, though the D.A. has a larger foothold than it did a few years ago; it is the party of nonvoters, the disillusioned.

But recently, under pressure from investors who see few signs of rejuvenation in the soda market, Coke has resolved to gain a larger foothold in the noncarbonated beverage business, aiming to counter Pepsi's many advances in the category.

The Softbank Corporation said it had acquired more than two-thirds of the financially troubled Tokyo Metallic Communications Corporation, gaining a larger foothold in a high-speed Internet access market that is expected to grow to as much as 35 billion yen ($283 million) by March.

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