Sentence examples for foothold on the from inspiring English sources

Glass, twisted metal, brick and slabs of concrete provide a foothold on the muddy roads in Grozny, where hardly one building has been left standing.

The government would then, for the first time, lose its foothold on the Jaffna peninsula.

Tells how Arafat wisely chose Jericho as a foothold on the West Bank.

Newfoundland could have been an earlier, colder Cuba — but with a foothold on the American mainland.

After years of saving he recently got a foothold on the property ladder.

It was a little brown bat, trying to get a foothold on the tile grout.

Hugging the two laggards would give NATO a bigger foothold on the edge of the Black Sea.

Gen. John A. McClernand, who had reported to Grant that his troops had secured a foothold on the works.

There's a real medina feel here, not surprising given the town was the first Arab foothold on the Iberian peninsula.

Freshfields, which worked on some of the largest transactions in Europe last year, is seeking a foothold on the Continent.

His first spell in power was a generation ago in a very different, pre-internet era, when democracy had a less steady foothold on the continent.