Sentence examples for a major foothold from inspiring English sources

But it has few ports in the region, and Wang's project would represent a major foothold.

The acquisition would give Apollo a major foothold in the United States, the world's second-largest auto market after China.

He said the agreement meant Volvo would "get a major foothold and share in the world's largest truck market".

The channel and other projects in Nicaragua, if finished, will give China a major foothold in Central America, a region traditionally influenced by the United States.

In neither country did Reform Judaism gain a major foothold, for the Orthodox establishment liberalized its synagogue practice while retaining its essentially conservative outlook.

The laboratory, which is 23 feet long and 15 feet in diameter, will significantly increase the station's research capability and give Europeans a major foothold in space.

Japan's leading computer company, Fujitsu Ltd., said today that it was considering whether to buy a stake in ICL P.L.C., Britain's sole maker of mainframe computers, in a move that could give the Japanese company a major European foothold.

CorpBanca, meanwhile, gets its first major foothold outside its home country and a business serving Colombian companies, whose attractive growth rates have caught the attention of other regional financial institutions, including the Brazilian giant Banco Itau.

Spanish bank BBVA this week took a 30% stake in Atom, spending £45m to get its first major foothold on retail customers in Britain.

The resulting Treaty of Kuldja gave the Russians their first major foothold in the area.

Russia is too heavily invested in Syria, its major foothold in the Middle East, to succumb to American pressure to give up on its investment on the Syrian regime.