Microsoft has struggled to find a firm foothold in China, which is widely accused of pirating software on an industrial scale, but has recently signed deals with Chinese companies that could lead to a sharp increase in sales of its Windows operating system.
For Expedia, the investment gives the company a stronger foothold in China, which is a "key region" for the U.S. travel company.
They had established a strong foothold in Goa, which they captured from the Sultan of Bijapur in 1510.
Iran will stop short of nothing to maintain its foothold in Syria, which the linchpin of the crescent of land between the Gulf and the Mediterranean and is central to Iran's ambitions to become the region's hegemon.
On 13 May 2010, leading Brazilian carrier TAM Airlines was admitted following a joining ceremony in São Paulo, thereby furthering the alliance's foothold in South America, which is currently considered by SkyTeam as an important market.
There's a fun sight-gag of flowers protruding from ghostly eye sockets, before a foothold-free sequence in which Wnek scrutinises sections of an orange till she finds one that's pregnant.
For example, terrain that is found to be fragile using the leg-grope walk can be used as learning data for terrain classification to estimate fragile footholds in advance, which compensates for the slow walking speed of the leg-grope walking method.
Social networking site Bebo has made the leap into Europe, teaming with local media partners to gain a foothold in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands — markets in which Facebook, MySpace and Netlog are already active players.
It's the same technique used to foothold the attack on Heartland Payment Systems, in which hackers gained access to millions of credit card numbers in what is perhaps the largest financial breach of all time.
Similarly, clinical use of SDD has not gained a strong foothold in Europe, the continent in which it has been most extensively investigated [ 29].
