Sentence examples for first foothold from inspiring English sources

It gives Procter its first foothold into the $10 billion salon business in Europe.

Swine flu gained its first foothold in the United States in New York, arguably the country's most crowd-loving city.

But it allowed her to get 15 workers doing rehabilitation training at Sayago, her first foothold in the system.

Singapore Telecom gains its first foothold in the Indonesian cellular market, which is growing 80percentt a year.

The new venture, Random House Kodansha, gives Random House, owned by Bertelsmann of Germany, its first foothold in Asia.

In Mexico, where the epidemic gained its first foothold, two thousand people had been infected and nearly a hundred had died by the end of April.

YourGrocer.com, an online supermarket that serves much of the New York region, gained its first footholds in TriBeCa and Greenwich Village.

By 1998, though, he was beginning to get a second foothold.

The deal also gives Valero, a major American oil refiner, its first significant foothold in Europe.

There's a real medina feel here, not surprising given the town was the first Arab foothold on the Iberian peninsula.

Labour-intensive, with low start-up costs, the industry still provides the first vital foothold in global manufacturing for many poor countries.