Sentence examples for foothold along from inspiring English sources

The crowds scrambling for a foothold along the route will be more immense – an estimated 300,000 gather whenever the Tour attacks Ventoux – and intense than ever, the tricolore flying boldly for Bastille Day, the sun-beaten crowds hoping for another French victory on this most evocative of summit finishes.

The divide was clannish: fixtures of the old Italian neighborhood were increasingly outnumbered by the artsy types who had gained a foothold along the canal and the professionals who had paid millions for town houses on the tree-lined (and now stink-free) streets nearby.

The effort is intended to prevent the Syrian government and its allies, specifically Lebanese Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, from maintaining a foothold along the Israeli fence.

Taking Palmyra would give IS a strategic foothold along routes towards the country's east, and further isolate the remaining government forces in Deir ez-Zur.

Intended to strengthen the Allied foothold along the banks of the Orne River and take Verrières Ridge to the south of Caen, Atlantic made initial gains but ran out of steam as casualties mounted.

Monitors confirmed that the Syria Democratic Forces — an alliance which includes the powerful Kurdish YPG militia and Arab allies — had advanced to within firing distance of the road, one week into a campaign to push the militants out of their foothold along the frontier.

Many joined the party recently because they agreed with the current leader's destination, not because they wanted an argument about footholds along the way.

As we trekked up the mountain however, slick footholds along craggy cliffs replaced the once-easy dirt paths and breathless wheezes replaced our carefree jokes.

Nearly five months after the attack on the World Trade Center, the thousands of businesses in Lower Manhattan are in countless disparate states of recovering, dying and being reborn -- some flourishing, some foundering, many struggling to maintain a foothold somewhere along the rocky slope in between.

Clouds Have Been My Foothold All Along shows his glass portrait heads of Picasso and Helmut Kohl, vitreographs from his Night of the Crystal Death – My Love to Anne Frank, a version of his monumental installation Narcissus and the Fountain of Youth, his "anti-functional" free-blown works, and paintings and drawings.

Polio still has a foothold in Pakistan, along with three other countries - India, Afghanistan and Nigeria.