A foothold in the region, provided everything delivers as promised, will help significantly in its efforts to take on that larger market opportunity it spelled out today.
But the C.I.A. and other American spy agencies, as well as the Pentagon, suspect that the monitor stations would give the Russians a foothold on American territory that would sharpen the accuracy of Moscow's satellite-steered weapons.
"I think the biggest challenge for Ed is not the decisions he has taken, which on the whole I have agreed entirely with and I think he has handled himself personally very well, but actually getting that hearing with the electorate, getting that foothold on the ladder.
Fox executive Peter Chernin said that they were hoping to establish a foothold on Thursday night and that "if we're really lucky and very fortunate, we're going to come in second place".
At a later news conference, Charles Elachi, the laboratory director, said that with Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter joining this fleet, along with two NASA rovers on the surface, the United States had established a scientific foothold on Mars similar to that on remote Antarctica.
According to this method, when the robot puts its foot on the ground, it applies some excess force and confirms whether the foothold is stable, and then chooses a foothold that does not collapse.
That wind is cold, uncaring history, propelling an entire population of men and women, only 50 years out of slavery, as they try to find footholds on a land that keeps shaking them loose.
On a typically frenetic day, "song pluggers" — representatives of would-be songwriters scrabbling to get a foothold on the ladder of success that Berlin had so fleetly ascended — plop themselves down at the piano and ply their wares for a few bars, hoping to sell songs to Berlin (Michael Therriault) and his partner Snyder Michael McCormickk).
New Dell-hi: An outpost in India rarely becomes a white elephant for Western companies most find that a foothold on the subcontinent, where English-speaking workers are plentiful and wages are low, helps to cut costs.
Studies of the 1930s Depression have found that individuals became less, not more, politicised as they concentrated their energies on finding a foothold in that merciless economic climate.
