Sentence examples for foothold at from inspiring English sources

She's strapped for cash, and fears losing her uncertain foothold at a struggling dance company.

Through association with the aristocracy, they gradually established a foothold at court.

"Sex and the City" at least gave women's lives, however romanticized, a foothold at the multiplex.

Anything and everything suggestive of the East gains a foothold at Tao.

It may be that a movement away from intellectualized art is now gaining a foothold at some schools, including Yale.

Despite miles of skyscrapers and pavement in New York City, nature has not lost its foothold, at least not yet.

Cheap, digital-publishing technology — especially print-on-demand options, which let individual buyers essentially commission copies of books — has been a godsend to writers without agents or footholds at traditional publishing houses.

There'll be a big delay while a couple of chaps mend the footholds at Kumar's end and the PA man is torturing us with Queen while they do it.

TRIPOLI, Libya — The rebels seeking to oust Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi claimed minor victories on Wednesday in some of their last footholds at both ends of the country's coast as they battled to hold off the Qaddafi forces' superior firepower and to disprove a claim by one of Colonel Qaddafi's sons that the last of the insurrection would be wiped out "in 48 hours".

Fellow pace bowler James Anderson did not look 100% fit: he had trouble with the footholds at one end and had physio work on his back later on.

And nation-building never gets a foothold here at home.