Sentence examples for commercial foothold from inspiring English sources
Although Ms. Hagen was an enormous European star in the 80's, the movie makes it clear why she never found a commercial foothold in the United States.
That organization gave Moscow a commercial foothold in New York and also cover for its spying activities, former agents and others say.
It took the Kremlin years to reestablish a commercial foothold in the country, and while dealings with Baghdad have more or less stabilized, officials in Moscow are in no hurry to repeat the experience.
In the 1990s Lollapalooza popped up to celebrate alternative-rock and outsider art, which were suddenly gaining commercial footholds.
In 1991 Lollapalooza — the brainchild of Perry Farrell, the frontman of Jane's Addiction — was created to celebrate alternative-rock and outsider art, peripheral genres (by definition) that were suddenly gaining commercial footholds.
It is particularly telling that on the very June afternoon Kinnear announced his Tyneside return, Jakaya Kikwete, the president of Tanzania, toured Sunderland's Academy of Light training complex with Short, whose desire to gain a commercial and scouting foothold in Africa has led Sunderland to help fund a football academy in Dar es Salaam.
The revamping also signals a commitment by Boeing to push ahead with its military and space businesses despite its strong foothold in commercial aviation.
CNN announced earlier this month that it would be experimenting with camera-bearing drones for news gathering, joining movie studios and other commercial enterprises getting a foothold in the market for the increasingly prevalent technology.
Even after commercial broadcasting gained a foothold in the late 1920's with the founding of CBS and NBC, there was a strong movement, joined by organized labor, religious and civil liberties groups, to reserve a significant part of the radio spectrum for noncommercial broadcasting.
In 2009 and again in 2011, Russia chose Le Bourget to showcase the Sukhoi Superjet 100, the first new airliner to be produced in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, and the spearhead of an effort to re-establish a foothold in the commercial aviation market, at least at the regional level.
Shelling in Salahedin was more intensive on Tuesday than at anytime since rebels took over the neighbourhood in late-July, securing a foothold in Syria's commercial centre.
