Sentence examples for foothold by from inspiring English sources
What Fife does is to get a foothold by buying a few flats.
"They'll establish a foothold by offering to help out with the investigation in Bali, and then we'll see the influx".
In the early years the company had difficulties, almost going bankrupt twice, but it finally established a business foothold by analyzing retail food and drug sales, which thereafter remained the company's largest and most profitable operation.
The report notes that the insurgents have proved adept at returning after a military operation to clear them out and at regaining a foothold by using intimidation and selected executions.
In the US it increased its foothold by 7.8 per cent from 2012, taking 43.4 per cent of the market; but in Spain its market share had only a minimal increase, to 6.1 per cent.
The French had already established a foothold by taking Metz, Toul, and Verdun in 1552, and they occupied the duchy a number of times in the devastating wars of the 17th century.
You do that by getting a foothold, tackling, by getting the ball into the box, by getting midfield runners, by your decision-making, by being physical, having good energy levels.
Advocates have waged savvy campaigns, gaining footholds by legalising marijuana for medical purposes (so far in 20 states and Washington, DC) and presenting a clean-cut, besuited image worlds away from the tie-dyed stereotypes.
DealBook » Toronto-Dominion Finds a U.S. Foothold | By sticking with consumer lending and avoiding risky businesses, the Toronto-Dominion Bank has become one of the 10 biggest lenders in the United States by assets, since it expanded into the country in 2004, Bloomberg News reports.
Legal downloading never managed to get a foothold as, by the time iTunes launched illegal downloading, using sites such as Sweden's own The Pirate Bay, was widespread.
Unable to dislodge Fidel Castro in Cuba, the United States intervened repeatedly in nearby conflicts -- in Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Grenada -- in the belief that every additional foothold gained by Communists increased the threat in the hemisphere.
