Sentence examples for foothold meaning from inspiring English sources
According to Christensen's theory, a "disruptive" business has to either originate in a low-end market and move upstream to higher value markets, or it has to create a "new market foothold," meaning it creates a new market where none existed.
Not only is Union a moral leader, it's also a resident of Manhattan with long ties to the city's leaders, meaning that divestment now has a foothold in the world's financial capital.
Maxthon hopes to gain scale against competitors such as UCWeb, Opera and Firefox by grabbing a strong foothold in markets that currently have low Internet penetration, meaning that most users haven't yet developed brand loyalty to specific mobile browsers.
But others have (obviously) already caught on to this phenomenon, meaning that WunWun needs to move quickly to get a foothold in the new area.
But Craigslist's foothold is still largely on the Web — meaning that as the world moves to mobile, companies that are not able to adapt could be left behind.
And as area codes lose their foothold, certain cultural references may also drop their meaning.
But if you let the outside world have some impact on the room, meaning or 'semantics' might begin to get a foothold.
"We had a foothold there.
