Sentence examples for established a bridgehead from inspiring English sources

Government troops established a bridgehead on the sprawling campus early on Friday after being ferried in by helicopter.

In his first term Blair established a bridgehead - the beginnings of a constitutional revolution; normalisation of relations with the rest of the EU; modest, but real, fiscal redistribution.

Just two weeks after the critic Lee Siegel launched a literary war by declaring American fiction "culturally irrelevant", US writers have established a bridgehead on the world's richest prize for a collection of short stories, taking five out of six slots on the Frank O'Connor award shortlist.

Here they successfully established a bridgehead on the Ottoman right flank.

In early November the Russians established a bridgehead over the Danube from Apatin (in modern-day Serbia).

After fierce street battles, the Soviet forces conquered the city and established a bridgehead on the north bank of the Emajõgi on 25 August.

Fortunately, Cetti's warbler had by then managed to establish a bridgehead on this side of the Channel, so clung on as a British breeding bird.

And it's clear that Cruz is establishing a bridgehead for the lessons of Latin America to find new relevance across what was once an unbridgeable divide.

The Corner is located just off Unter den Linden, the ultimate destination for international designers wanting to establish a bridgehead in Germany.

They were met by vigorous resistance, but the Turks were successful in establishing a bridgehead around Kyrenia and linking it with the Turkish sector of Nicosia.

Witold Szymanski, a deal-maker at RZB, an Austrian bank, believes that big companies in Russia and other countries not likely to join the EU will soon want to make acquisitions in Central Europe to establish a bridgehead there.It did not take Eastern Europe long to adopt the financial habits of its capitalist present.