Sentence examples for foothold when from inspiring English sources

Wales gained a foothold when Ramsey crossed and Taylor forced Courtois into a reflex save.

One year ago, the idea that microbes might cause obesity gained a foothold when the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana created the nation's first department of viruses and obesity.

That meant it took another seven minutes for Cardiff to gain a foothold, when Aron Gunnarsson's run and centre was deftly flicked on by Mutch for Odemwingie to cut inside, on to his left foot, and finish with aplomb.

Tottenham regained a foothold when Gareth Bale scored to make it 2-1 but Parker, together with his team-mates William Gallas and Carlo Cudicini, preferred to highlight how open they became, which allowed Chelsea to play through them.

Monkeypox outbreaks in people in Congo were detected in the 1990's, and a 1999 report by the World Health Organization suggested that the disease might have found a foothold when health experts said people no longer needed smallpox vaccinations, which can prevent monkeypox because the vaccine and monkeypox viruses are closely related.

It was what editors did in the rough-and-tumble of journalism when The New-York Times was striving to secure a foothold: when they went out of their way to "make" news, the papers became participants in what they were reporting.

Stay focused on finding good footholds when scrambling, and climbing down.

Citizen science gained a foothold here when the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum began enlisting local residents to record sightings of squirrels for researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the late 1990s.

That is primarily because many European nations have multi-party systems, and many of the countries have proportional representation that allows smaller parties to maintain a foothold even when they are polling in single digits.

The Saints had a foothold and when Manu Tuilagi was penalised for not rolling away after a tackle, having got back on his feet without quite letting go of Luther Burrell, Lee Dickson tapped and scuttled away, weaving in and out of defenders who dared not touch him because they were in the 10-metre exclusion zone, before linking with Burrell on his outside.

Some Indonesian journalists fear a repeat as Mr Habibie gains a foothold, or perhaps when elections approach next year.