Sentence examples for deep foothold from inspiring English sources

Al Qaeda has carved a deep foothold here with at least three cells of operatives plotting new attacks in the kingdom or North America, American and Saudi government officials said today.

Castellano's killing opened the way for the man who engineered it, John Gotti, to gain a deeper foothold in the New York mob.

Montoya is a 26-year-old goaltender who is still looking to establish a foothold deep into a professional career that has been disappointing.

On this night, 17 sailors had climbed through a small circular scuttle on the mess deck and then descended, handhold by foothold, deep below the water line to a space that few sailors see.

Despite its monastic, anti-capitalist underpinnings, Deep Springs has a foothold in the most conventionally prestigious realms of American society: most of its students, once they complete the two-year term, go on to finish their education at Ivy League schools.

The Australians held the old Ottoman fire trench and had footholds deeper in Ottoman lines.

With these results, reaching billions of light-years into space, astronomers have gained a secure foothold in the deepest and most mysterious reaches of the cosmic past.

Having surrendered an early deficit and with their defence creaking alarmingly as Lyon's trio of rapid attacking midfielders tore at them from deep, they survived, found a foothold and struck ruthlessly when opportunism presented their first chance.

The W.P.S. could use a compelling story line as it struggles to establish a foothold during a deep recession with a sport that has been unable to build on the success of the Women's World Cup held in the United States a decade ago.

The Karachi-based MQM says it is facing threats from Taliban elements that have established footholds for themselves deep inside the city.

In the second dig I struggled to find my rhythm: the footholds were a bit deep and I couldn't get any grip.Then I had to bowl at Gilchrist and Michael Clarke in full flight.