While the network has a strong cadre of die-hard users, it's still struggling to gain a foothold in the broader market the way Facebook has managed to do.
Reducing mother-to-child transmission also offers us a foothold in tackling broader treatment, which is both possible and an essential part of the campaign against HIV/AIDS.
Greece is one foothold for China's broad, strategic push into Europe.
Preliminary examination suggested that GO terms containing more than 100 genes provided relatively little information because these terms represent too broad a concept to give a foothold for further biological investigation.
The Green win was the result of a strategic shift by the party away from building broad-based national support to getting a foothold in parliament.
Of course, such an atypical buying environment can distort results, so pop-up shops should certainly be only one tool in a broader range of experiments, primarily appropriate for validating foothold consumer interest.
Green construction is gaining foothold among professionals, decision makers and the broader public.
Once an epidemic was under way, those doctors were granted broad police-like powers, and they established the first foothold of federal authority in the South since the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
The diplomatic drain parallels a broader effort by Afghans to make sure they have a foothold abroad in case things go badly after the Western military withdrawal, which is scheduled to be completed in 2014.
While China is not expected to lift its broader ban on foreign broadcasts soon, today's deal gives AOL a foothold that could be expanded if China ever does relax the rules.
But its broad scope and already-thriving community may help it get a foothold, especially if it can acquire dedicated users who genuinely care about building up a list of their accomplishments (diddits) and To-Dos (wannados).
