Sentence examples for foothold among from inspiring English sources

The asking price for his foothold among the middle class?

Makers have leapt ahead in producing superb instruments, which have gained a foothold among many serious players.

The site is quickly becoming a hot property for its foothold among a younger demographic — particularly women — and its strong grasp of mobile technology.

It does not yet have ad sales teams in Europe, but it will once Yelp establishes a foothold among users there, Mr. Donaker said.

Target.com, which has not used such subtle methods in securing a foothold among wedding and baby gift registrants, is now pushing into the all-occasion registry market.

In short, Volkswagen attracted a foothold among the materially secure, white middle class whose members made up the bulk of suburbanites in the fifties.

The Waldorf method is nearly a century old, but its foothold here among the digerati puts into sharp relief an intensifying debate about the role of computers in education.

After the collapse of the postwar political order of Communists, Christian Democrats and Socialists in the early 1990s, the Northern League gained a foothold especially among the working class in northern Italy, the country's economic engine.

As rape culture has gained a steady foothold on American campuses, among law enforcement officers (whose job is to protect and serve rather than entrap and assault), and in a culture which refers to men and women alike as "bitches," this lack of basic respect for another human being has led to a sorry state affairs that could be called Fifty Shades of Dysfunctional Family Life.

The medium is also finding a foothold -- er, thumbhold -- among business people who find it an unobtrusive way to keep up with e-mail in meetings or on the go.

Is the scramble for a European foothold spurring an unlikely chumminess among American buyout firms?