Sentence examples for foothold being from inspiring English sources

"Tread-wheels," of this type, usually consist of hollow cylinders, round the inner surface of which a horse, dog or man walks, foothold being kept by slabs of wood nailed across at short mtervals.

The foothold being gained by populist, far-right parties in Europe and the hostile language employed by Donald Trump on his way to amassing a delegate lead for the Republican nomination may have little to do with religion itself.

Capitec's foothold was now firm, and it continued growing.

Regaining a foothold was one thing but maintaining it proved quite another.

Probably the reason the work has never found a secure foothold is that it is more talky than dramatic.

One such foothold was established on 22 February by the UN security council in a moment of rare unanimity.

During the first period, a promising foothold was established in the Ionian Islands, which had to be abandoned after the Treaty of Tilsit.

His attempt to maintain and strengthen Russian influence in Korea, where Japan also had a foothold, was partly responsible for the Russo-Japanese War (1904 05).

But 18 months ago my foothold was not on the sheer cliff of senectitude but upon that plateau that Proust himself might have called "entre deux âges".

The premise behind expanding Centene's foothold "is the government is going to play a role regardless of what happens in the U.S.," he said.

In other words, it won't be highly lucrative at first but could pay off if that stronger foothold is indeed secured.