Sentence examples for firm foothold in from inspiring English sources

Not surprisingly Ms. Franklin's most electrifying performances have a firm foothold in the church.

And yet that music has established a firm foothold in one area: the amateur chorus.

With the birth of the Royal North Devon Golf Club in 1864, golf took a firm foothold in England.

TD, one of the leading vehicle lenders in Canada, gets a firm foothold in the much bigger market next door.

And carbon tax systems, while rare and rife with controversy, retain a firm foothold in a number of advanced economies.

Shortly thereafter, in 1596, the Dutch entered the area and began to establish a firm foothold in western Sumatra.

At the beginning of the 4th century ad, the Ḥimyar capital was moved northward to Sanaa, and later in that century both Christianity and Judaism gained firm footholds in the area.

Several such innovative HRH strategies and care models thus originated and/or gained firm footholds in African countries in efforts to satisfy the ever-escalating demand for health care and the severe shortages of qualified HRH.

Getting methadone in jail gave a Connecticut heroin user a firmer foothold in recovery.

Djokovic pulled one back in the sixth game and got a firmer foothold in the match to drag himself back to 3-5.

Some have a firmer foothold in it, while others are still edging their way in — but the field that they opened still seems mainly to be theirs.