Sentence examples for foothold in one of from inspiring English sources

For China, the deal offers a lucrative foothold in one of the most oil-rich countries in the world.

Her project, "subWave," is beautiful and extremely comfortable, provided you get a foothold in one of its big, flat hammocks.

The victory of a pro-European party alleviates fears that a Eurosceptic party would gain a bigger political foothold in one of the eurozone's core members.

But that still leaves hundreds of new agents seeking a foothold in one of the city's most competitive industries at a particularly brutal time.

In Brazil, BG's assets would give Shell a further foothold in one of the lowest cost basins in the world, and could add potential synergies with Shell's Libra assets.

"This investment is of strategic importance to HSBC as it gives us a foothold in one of the largest retail broking markets in the world," Mr. Flockhart said in a statement.

Now the company wants to use its foothold in one area of market research to expand into another.

If the deal goes through, Abbey National, with its 741 branches and 17.8 million customers, would bring Santander a stable foothold in Britain, one of Europe's strongest consumer lending markets.

Though British Telecom's buyout of Viag Interkom is somewhat prosaic by the standards set by its acquisitive European rivals, the deal is an important step in the British telephone operator's quest to create a pan-European footprint and gain a foothold in Germany, one of the biggest markets for telecommunications, particularly for wireless services.

And yet that music has established a firm foothold in one area: the amateur chorus.

In a single climbing step, collision-free motion planning involves three adjacent footholds, one of which determines the grasping configuration of the base gripper and the other two are the initial and the target configurations of the swinging gripper.1 A feasible and collision-free trajectory is to be found between the two footholds for the swinging gripper.