Sentence examples for foothold it from inspiring English sources

If DoCoMo gains a foothold, it would face intense competition, especially from Vodafone.

Wherever Protestantism gained a foothold, it influenced the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the area.

PHNOM PENH — Far from the glamour at fashion weeks in America and Europe, Cambodia's silk industry is struggling to regain the foothold it lost during years of political and civil unrest.

Since the brand was sold by Ford last year to Geely of China, its new owners have decreed that Volvo must move upmarket, away from the near-luxury foothold it shared with others like Saab, Acura and Lincoln.

But if there's justice, the new M sedan will give Infiniti the foothold it has always sought on the midrange luxury battlefield dominated by the Mercedes E-Class and BMW 5 Series.

And even if the Chinese military could somehow acquire a foothold, it has the capacity to move only about 20,000 troops by sea and air at a time.

That would give it a foothold as it pushes its focus on its vision of the new software-defined data center.

Friday largely covers that awkward straddle between the 80s and 90s, when indie pop was finding whatever footholds it could in the mainstream.

By then, the fire had established a strong enough foothold that it could not be extinguished once it was exposed.

The fastest growing party is not the A.N.C. or the opposition Democratic Alliance, though the D.A. has a larger foothold than it did a few years ago; it is the party of nonvoters, the disillusioned.

They fear that inflation now has such a firm foothold that it could take a serious downturn to stop it.