The chain's founders, intent on keeping a Manhattan foothold, bought out the drowning franchise last spring, remodeled it and stepped up advertising, Sal Melilli, vice president of Hooters Management, said last week.
He edges her to the end of his branch until she can barely keep a foothold, leans out over her, heaves his chest and opens wide his cavernous black mouth.
When positive footholds run out, the granite in Yosemite can feel slippery to the toes.
As support for the Western-backed leadership has dwindled, a second, more extreme Al Qaeda group has carved out footholds across parts of Syria, frequently clashing with mainline rebels who accuse it of making the establishment of an Islamic state a priority over the fight to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
Since ISIS announced the creation of the Khorasan province of its so-called caliphate in Afghanistan and Pakistan in January 2015, the Sunni terror group has carved out footholds in the eastern province of Nangarhar, bordering Pakistan, as it competes with rivals the Taliban and al Qaeda for influence.
Over the past few decades, a small Southeast Asian community has carved out a foothold.
Madrid kept their cool in the face of the storm and, gradually, they chiselled out a foothold.
Netflix, in a free fall, needs the deals to hold on to subscribers while Amazon is attempting to kick out a foothold.
However, outside of the snobby Internet crowd, Microsoft still has a good name with most people and a solid marketing blitz might help the new platform chip-out a foothold.
Yet just as their fledgling business was gaining a foothold, Yoder found out she was pregnant with her seventh child.
