Sentence examples for foothold from inspiring English sources

With Beijing hoping to further cement its foothold in a country viewed as offering the easiest entrance to Europe commercially, Chinese officials are eager to replicate Cosco's business model elsewhere.

How many more stories can you read about sacked 50-year-olds who think they'll never find a foothold again?

The blessing of De la Renta, who this year marks his 50th anniversary designing clothes in New York, has given Galliano a foothold into a world from which his infamous antisemitic drunken rant in a Paris bar had cut him adrift.

Perversely, 150 miles north-west of Edinburgh, one of Scotland's very few indigenous mammals and iconic of this country, struggles daily to retain a foothold on its very existence.

That way you will be busy in fulfilling ways, so the old habits and attitudes will be less likely to regain a foothold.

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.

His first spell in power was a generation ago in a very different, pre-internet era, when democracy had a less steady foothold on the continent.

33 min: The Czechs have slightly quelled the storm in the last 10 minutes and are starting to get a foothold in the game now.

The knock-on effects are felt across the economy, from the jobs created and the cheaper costs of manpower to foreign direct investment that pours in from countries enticed by getting a foothold in the world's richest consumer market".

Of course, women's sport is not alone in struggling to get a secure foothold in the UK.

That demand had been rebuffed by members of the new coalition, and by Britain, which believes a tacit alliance between the Syrian regime and Isis led to the group gaining a regional foothold.