Sentence examples for foothold that from inspiring English sources

"I would find this new foothold that allowed me to do a certain move in a way that was a little bit more secure — stuff like that.

The caliphate now straddles swathes of Syria and Iraq Egyptt's Sinai peninsula is becoming a war zone; and the chaos of Libya is giving jihadists a foothold that could become a "province" on Europe's doorstep.

If EADS had won the tanker contract, it planned to eventually assemble commercial freighter planes at the plant in Mobile, giving it a manufacturing foothold that could help expand other sales in the United States.

Today, Shiite fighters help the Syrian government to hold the area around Sayida Zeinab — a foothold that helps prevent rebels from fully encircling Mr. Assad's seat of power in Damascus.

While China is not expected to lift its broader ban on foreign broadcasts soon, today's deal gives AOL a foothold that could be expanded if China ever does relax the rules.

Leftist groups here say the real objective is to give the United States a foothold that would allow it to seize the Brazilian Amazon and thus command the southern flank of Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chávez.

end{aligned} (1)In addition, if walking strategy 2 is satisfied, the robot can walk without causing those footholds that have been already probed to collapse.

It's got little footholds that swing down for when someone's riding bitch, too.

The trail occasionally deteriorated into crude stairs – small footholds that tilted vertiginously toward a precipitous slope.

For the most part, this hasn't happened yet, and it may sound absurd given the footholds that companies like Google and Amazon have in the U.S.

The Spanish coastal fortifications in Veracruz, Callao and Chiloé, were the footholds that resisted until 1825 and 1826 respectively.