Sentence examples for given a foothold from inspiring English sources

In return ENI and Enel were given a foothold in Russia's gas fields and possibly a seat on the board of Gazprom's oil company.

With an eye on making sure diversity is present in Massachusetts, small businesses are to be given a foothold too.

Still, he gives a foothold to the floundering with evocative description — "A beard grows a few nanometres in the time taken to raise a razor to the skin" — and with liberal doses of trivia.

Still, he gives a foothold to the floundering with evocative description—"A beard grows a few nanometres in the time taken to raise a razor to the skin"—and with liberal doses of trivia.

Preliminary examination suggested that GO terms containing more than 100 genes provided relatively little information because these terms represent too broad a concept to give a foothold for further biological investigation.

In 2006, nanoscaffolding was used to regrow burned skin and it was discovered that skin cells will "sort themselves" into the right arrangement if given a proper foothold.

"Although seemingly encouraged by the victim at the time, I should have never have given them a foothold.

Recent acquisitions have given it a foothold in processes involving nanotechnology in the production of semiconductors.

Had either of the latter two acquired the site, it would have given them a foothold not only in Poland, but also in the wider Eastern European region.

But they've given themselves a foothold in the series and they go to Dunedin with momentum and belief.

"It gave us a foothold, we got some momentum and the crowd gave us a lift.