Sentence examples for foothold down from inspiring English sources

GROUPE BOLLORÉ is one of those family-owned European firms that seem to have jumped like mountain goats from foothold to industrial foothold down the decades.

It's got little footholds that swing down for when someone's riding bitch, too.

But, once he boosts her to safer ground, he loses his foothold, his love gazing down at him from the ledge.

Everything was fine while I was moving, but now I have climbed as high as I can and I can't find a foothold to start back down.

There was a brief break in play due to a fire in a nearby van and Edinburgh gamely tried to get a foothold but were let down by handling errors when in dangerous positions.

There are some impressive, influential women that have jumped right into the industry with hopes of establishing a strong foothold and breaking down traditional corporate barriers.

Where, on whom, from his precarious foothold, can an immigrant look down?

In addition, it must be guaranteed that the robot will not fall down even if the foothold collapses.

Everybody is rolling off it and those that remain, struggling hard for a foothold, drag each other down". Although the specifics of mutual intransigence have changed since he wrote this--the church is no longer as dominant in the south as it was 40 years ago, and the society is more open and liberal--the intransigence's physics remains, specifically in the North.

We struggled to get a foothold in the game and that was down to the physicality of the Poland players.

"We felt that if we tied Exeter up at the start, got momentum and quietened the crowd down, we would get a foothold in the game.