Sentence examples for a powerful foothold from inspiring English sources
It has a powerful foothold here in the heart of Central Europe.
The deal would give Intel a powerful foothold in the market for smartphone chips, a segment of the business that is experiencing strong growth.
More recently, the Oslo peace process gave the embryonic political institutions of the embryonic Palestine a powerful foothold in the city, symbolised by the transformation of Orient House, a former hotel, into a cross between a town hall and an embassy.
And it accesses enough of a user's machine to give hackers a powerful foothold.
"Genetics gives us a huge, powerful foothold into understanding how people get sick and what you can do about it," says Gil McVean, professor of statistical genetics at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Vigilante groups armed with high-powered weapons of questionable origin have pushed out a powerful drug cartel, the Knights Templar, from some of their key footholds in a region called Tierra Caliente.
They're right to flag progress, especially with all the chatter about LA's Latino population superceding the African American core that was long a powerful minority constituency but is now struggling to maintain a foothold in Los Angeles politics.
Interruption has clearly gained a foothold in American discourse these days, and is proving a powerful weapon for influencing the national conversation.
He is a powerful, powerful drummer.
