Sentence examples for a limited foothold from inspiring English sources
Essentially, Israel has said it is prepared to grant the Palestinians a limited foothold in Jerusalem, with control of Muslim holy sites in the walled city, the adjoining Muslim and Christian quarters, and Arab villages on the east of the city that lie within its enlarged municipal boundaries.
As outlined by Israeli and Palestinian officials, those compromises would involve a limited Palestinian foothold at the Muslim holy sites in the Old City as well as control of the old Arab quarter and some Arab villages on the city's eastern periphery.
When he landed back in Tel Aviv from Camp David, he described the concessions he had tentatively accepted in Washington, including a limited Palestinian foothold in East Jerusalem, as "null and void" because Mr. Arafat had rejected them and demanded full Palestinian sovereignty over all of East Jerusalem.
His idea has taken many different iterations since then, but income-contingent repayment, as it's now called, has never really gained a foothold in the United States beyond a limited option available in the federal direct-lending program.
Not a limited air strike.
It's a base, a foothold".
They also wanted to secure a foothold, a spot — anything!
Now C diff has a chance to gain a foothold.
Then we got a little bit of a foothold".
