Sentence examples for foothold across from inspiring English sources

Islamists already have a foothold across central Asia.

May 2002 was the month the Far Right found a political foothold across Europe.

They began gaining a foothold across the country as students graduated, bringing home tales and tapes of the band.

Islamic State, which now has a foothold across the country's southern border in neighbouring Libya, claimed responsibility for it through social media outlets.

He is already Germany's biggest box-office draw, and his popularity in Russia could mean an extra, crucial foothold across the Atlantic.

And while the refuge had Congressional protection, only regulatory changes by the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management would be needed for industry to gain a greater foothold across much of the American West.

Its churches are gaining footholds across the continent and even in Europe and the United States.

A police official there said he expected attacks in Diyala to increase because local security forces were weak and Sunni extremists had established strong footholds across the province.

Further complicating the picture is the rise of the new Qaeda franchise, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which has established footholds across northern and eastern Syria with the intention to lay the foundations of an Islamic state.

The paper also reported that News Corp executives are in the early stages of talks with Tribune Co's debtholders including Oaktree Capital, with an eye toward securing footholds across the three top U.S. markets of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

In mutually costly fighting over the following two days, a foothold was secured across the River Odon and efforts were made to expand this, by capturing strategic points around the salient and moving up the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division.