Sentence examples for foothold from which from inspiring English sources

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.

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 was critical for the Allies to take and hold Normandy to provide the foothold from which to create a western front and launch the assault that ended the war.

A victory in Mississippi: Voters in the Magnolia State defeated a ballot initiative that would have declared that life begins at fertilization, which supporters saw as a legislative foothold from which to launch a challenge to reproductive rights nationwide.

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.

Perhaps he will be happy to stay out of his father's sphere of influence once James assures him of a firm foothold in South Africa from which he can further his own career.

"But it's important that the American people know that we are making progress and we are focused on goals that are clear and achievable". The president's strategy is to start bringing some of the troops home in a year, but he said he would not permit terrorists to once more gain a foothold in Afghanistan from which to attack the US.

The blessing of De la Renta, who this year marks his 50th anniversary designing clothes in New York, has given Galliano a foothold into a world from which his infamous antisemitic drunken rant in a Paris bar had cut him adrift.

Another woman talked about how she lost her foothold in life, felt almost unconscious, as if "in a black hole" from which she could not escape.