Sentence examples for foothold against from inspiring English sources

Not the Assad regime, which needs this devil to find legitimacy and a foothold against rebel movements.

Michael Levi, an energy and climate change analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations, said calls for an end to energy subsidies missed a broader point: that embryonic energy technologies will need some government help to gain a foothold against the fossil fuel lobbies.

In this brief chat with Goetz, we discuss how enterprise SaaS startups are actually picking up and adapting techniques around customer acquisition, customer retention, cohort analysis, and design from consumer-facing startups in order to gain a stronger foothold against enterprise giants.

No outside power would attempt to gain a strategic foothold to use against other outside powers.

Football in Central America struggled to gain a significant foothold in competition against baseball.

Mallory Burdette, the N.C.A.A. runner-up from Stanford, never got a foothold in her match against No. 3 Maria Sharapova and lost, 6-1, 6-1.

Microsoft's challenge is to make the fruits of this research a big selling point for Windows Phone, as it tries to secure a bigger foothold in the market against iPhone and Android, which both feature their own prominent voice recognition features.

The acquisition will give Microsoft a quick foothold to compete better against Google.

While the U.S. has the military objective of seeking a foothold for the fight against ISIS, Turkey has other preoccupations, including its concern about the possible emergence of another autonomous Kurdish stronghold on its border and the ongoing cost and management of an enormous refugee burden.

Tresco formed a base for Royalist privateers, and Parliament became concerned that the Dutch, then hostile to England, might counter the piracy by occupying the islands, gaining a foothold they could then use against England.

Tresco formed a base for Royalists privateers and Parliament became concerned that the Dutch, then hostile to England, might counter the piracy by occupying the islands, gaining a foothold they could then use against England.