Sentence examples for creating a foothold from inspiring English sources

In more recent years the area, 30 miles from Midtown near the New York border, provided critical middle-class housing in an upscale area, creating a foothold for teachers, construction workers and mechanics.

But even if Google has said it would run Motorola as a separate business unit, owning a handset maker could give the company a crack at making its own range of Android devices that it could sell in countries like China, creating a foothold for other money-making services.

To create a foothold, the company said it had decided to use its newest round of financing to buy at least two security companies in the United States.

For now, the company is using its accessory range as a way to introduce the brand to key markets and create a foothold for further expansion at a later date.

Square has no doubt created a foothold amongst small businesses, as the service is free to implement and now has cut out the transaction charge completely (a move that competitors VeriFone and Intuit have yet to make).

Since taking office two years ago, Turnbull has aggressively pushed back against the powerful anti-vaccine movement that created a foothold in Australia in the early 1990s, driving immunization rates down to near 70percentt in many parts of the country.

The biofilm enables Nocardia spp. to protect themselves from the relatively low serum concentrations of antimicrobial drugs given orally and, hence, create a foothold from which they can invade the bloodstream through the surface of the CVC intravascular segment.

The Jaguars are owned by Fulham owner Shahid Khan, and the team is hoping to create a strong foothold with UK fans by returning regularly.

What historians do know is that in 1585 he was a member of an expedition to create a permanent foothold for England in America.

More recently, Cloudera has created a strong foothold in the enterprise as Hadoop becomes the defacto technology to manage large amounts of data.

At 43 years old, and in her first presidential election, Marine Le Pen managed to rouse the FN base and create a stronger foothold in the political landscape.