While the Syrian government has kept rebels from fully seizing the three largest cities, he said, "it has been unable to dislodge them" from their footholds there.
By sacrificing a portion of revenues from price-sensitive or overserved customers, Microsoft could prevent free-product competitors from expanding their foothold and give itself a better shot at retaining its most valuable customers: the business and power home users who are loyal today but could ultimately defect.
In the war's closing stages, the hotels' balconies gave an unimpeded view as American tanks blasted their way from their first foothold in Baghdad, the former Saddam International Airport, into the Republican Palace presidential compound that was the White House of Mr. Hussein's Iraq.
Amal's policy in the south is to support the role of the United Nations and try to stop Palestinian guerrillas from re-establishing their foothold in the area.
Qalāʾūn wished both to expel the Latin (Christian) crusaders from their remaining footholds in the Middle East and to repel the invading Mongols.
After China entered the World Trade Organisation in 2001, global companies rushed to extend their supply chains from their previous Asian footholds into China.
In late June, they were driven out from Martakert, losing their final foothold of the enclave.
In this treatment, patients take a drug that will prevent HIV from getting a foothold in their body, should they ever come into contact with it.
Vigilante groups armed with high-powered weapons of questionable origin have pushed out a powerful drug cartel, the Knights Templar, from some of their key footholds in a region called Tierra Caliente.
That was very full yet burst from a foothold to take the shoulder of the bat.
