Sentence examples for be given a foothold from inspiring English sources

With an eye on making sure diversity is present in Massachusetts, small businesses are to be given a foothold too.

In return ENI and Enel were given a foothold in Russia's gas fields and possibly a seat on the board of Gazprom's oil company.

Because you don't know what's encoded on a QR code when you scan it, you could be giving a virus a foothold on your mobile device without even realizing it.

The caliphate now straddles swathes of Syria and Iraq Egyptt's Sinai peninsula is becoming a war zone; and the chaos of Libya is giving jihadists a foothold that could become a "province" on Europe's doorstep.

You can then be giving Satan a hand up into a foothold or "stronghold", as the Bible calls it, in your life and mind.

President Eisenhower, convinced that Mr. Arbenz was giving the Communists a foothold in the Americas, authorized a coup that ousted the Guatemalan president in nine days.

But do parents who choose not to vaccinate understand that they may be giving deadly diseases the chance to regain footholds?

Instead of driving to a grocery store the way they used to do, Mr. Wallace, Mrs. Pagen and Mrs. Kaplan have become part of the growing crowd who are giving Internet grocery shopping a stronger foothold in Westchester.

After the Kremlin's actions in Ukraine and increased rhetoric about protecting Russians abroad, there have been concerns among the Latvian elite that the country's large Russian-speaking minority could be used to give Moscow a foothold in the small Baltic state.

Recent acquisitions have given it a foothold in processes involving nanotechnology in the production of semiconductors.

In Penang, which had been established to give Britain a foothold in the Dutch-held East Indies, Raffles shaped his career by an intensive exploration into the language, history, and culture of the Malayan peoples scattered over the islands of the archipelago.