Sentence examples for foothold of influence from inspiring English sources
The administration reckons other countries will be beating down the door to "help out" afterwards as a way to gain a foothold of influence.
Hillary Clinton became the first US secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, on a trip that would help gauge whether a place the US bombed during the Vietnam war could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.
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.
The US determination for a foothold in Central Asia, combined with Russian insistence that the region should be a special zone of influence for Moscow, has destabilised the country for years.
When the robot probes the foothold of the left front leg, the foothold collapses.
We set the foothold of leg (L_1) as fragile enough to collapse while walking.
At the marked time (around 35 [s]), the foothold of the leg (L_1) collapsed.
When the foothold of leg (L_1) collapses, the ground reaction becomes zero, as shown with the black circle.
