Sentence examples for a strong bridgehead from inspiring English sources

Each of the main crime syndicates has established a strong bridgehead in the rich north of Italy.

The American firm also obtained a strong bridgehead in hair colour, a boom area in beauty, with the 2001 purchase of Clairol at $5 billion, its biggest acquisition.Nevertheless, it is L'Oréal that dominates the $90-billion-a-year 90-billion-a-year 90-billion-a-year 90-billion-a-year perceived elegance count as much as sales volumes.

On the Cotentin Peninsula, the American 4th Division had suffered lighter casualties in securing Utah, and had established a strong bridgehead by the end of D-Day.

Using this freedom to his advantage, Model managed to fall back and begin establishing a line along the Narva River with a strong bridgehead on the eastern bank in Ivangorod.

Party officials have been looking at whether it can switch limited organisational and financial resources from its northern heartlands in the elections as part of an effort to build a stronger bridgehead in the south.

Having established a strong Liberal bridgehead in a northern industrial city, based on community politics, Trevor was frustrated that the national party's official lip service to this strategy was belied by its respectable image, typified by its then president, Stephen Terrell, a barrister with a distinguished war record, but who had openly criticised the young Liberals' radicalism.

At the other points, Vroenhoven and Veldwezelt, the Germans had had time to establish strong bridgeheads and repulsed the attacks.

The interatomic distance between Si1 and Si2 (formerly the double bond of the cyclotrisilene) of 2.618 1) Å (c.f. 2.118(1) Å in cSi3(Tip)4)[ 4a] is indicative of the expected absence of a strong direct interaction between the bridgehead silicon atoms.

On 18 September 1796, the Austrians temporarily acquired control of the tête-du-ponts (bridgeheads) joining Kehl and Strasbourg until a strong French counter-attack forced them to retreat, leaving the French in control of the bridges but the Austrians in control of the territory surrounding them.

Although the Austrians originally pushed out the French defenders, a strong counter-attack forced them to retreat, leaving the French still in possession of the village and the important bridgeheads crossing the Rhine.

A strong attack at this point by the French armoured units could have prevented Guderian from breaking out of the Meuse bridgeheads and changed the outcome of the campaign.