Sentence examples for foothold from from inspiring English sources

A senior Marine officer said the marine withdrawal reduced the occupied part of the city to 10percentt, a "foothold," from 25percentt.

But, surprisingly, I find myself experiencing an ambivalent nostalgia for the unsophisticated past and a hope that Peekskill, in its new multidimensionality, will remember its hardscrabble dreamy-eyed misfits and continue to provide a solid foothold from which they may aspire.

Ankara sees YPG militants, who are affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK), as vying to own areas they have never before controlled, to establish a foothold from Irfin in Syria's north-west to the Iraqi border, a frontier dominated for decades by Arabs.

The novel's structure reflects that fluidity, as it cuts back and forth through 100 years of time, "the black clock of the century". Here is a Borgesian labyrinth where characters invent each other through their imaginations, where there are glancing references to history as we know it but no stable foothold from which we can observe that this is real and that invented.

"By making a human click on a link or open up a file, the attackers can run their own malicious code, which often creates a back door into the network". That establishes a foothold from which attackers can control their activities in that environment.

Gravity Jack will work with them (and cover costs) to develop a solution that addresses their needs, then use that as a foothold from which to reach others in the space that might (perhaps rightfully) be wary of adopting the technology.

"It is as if there are thin slats, footholds, from here to the sun, Margit, for all the baby faces to step on," says the man calling himself Prof. Roland Boland Pine.

The turmoil engulfing the Arab world has upturned so many familiar assumptions that governments (whether inside or outside the Arab region) are struggling to find some sure footholds from which to chart their stance and course of action.

In Piaf's youth, when she might have crossed paths with Jane Avril and Django Reinhardt, tenements like hers were a haven for political refugees — Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Spaniards — and they later served as a foothold for immigrants from the former French colonies in Africa and Indochina.

[The marketplace] is a great way to get a foothold and from this offer larger subscriptions and more traditional enterprise deals".

That is not surprising in a neighborhood that has always been a foothold for immigrants, including arrivals from Scandinavian countries, Italy and most recently, Egypt, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East.