Sentence examples for foothold wall from inspiring English sources

3. "ROMNEY'S TAX PLAN FAILS TO GAIN A FOOTHOLD" (Wall Street Journal, 9/16).

Anybody who has wondered why the world's biggest banks have been scrambling for a foothold on Wall Street need look no further than the Goldman Sachs Group's latest earnings report.

Citic may hope that a foothold in Bear Stearns, Wall Street's fifth-largest securities firm, would increase its ability to handle complex financial deals and compete internationally.

Here and there on the face of the wall were footholds and handholds in the form of slots the size of bricks.

Guede, he added, could have used a nail found in the wall as a foothold to reach the window.

The most common new uses for an old church are as blocks of apartments and community centres, though some have found a more exotic destiny.St Benedict's church in Manchester has become the Manchester Climbing Centre and a vertical wall with moulded footholds now occupies its tall nave.

According to the Boston Consulting Group, venture capital investing "appears well on its way to establishing a firm foothold in the corporate world," The Wall Street Journal reports.

Centuries of decay often left small stones and dust as the only foothold on this section of the Wall built during the Ming Dynasty.

The author of "American Wheels, Chinese Roads: The Story of General Motors in China" sees only two Chinese companies remotely close to selling their brands in the U.S.: Great Wall and Geely, which has a foothold because of its purchase of Volvo.

On Saturday night, the Occupy Wall Street movement managed to gain a temporary foothold on Wall Street, courtesy of an art show partly inspired by the group's protests.

The hardest – or crux sections – on Dawn Wall also involve very poor slippery footholds where the climber needs to rely on the friction of rubber-soled shoes against the wall and tiny razor-sharp flakes for two finger tips.