Sentence examples for had no foothold from inspiring English sources

Fox News, displaying its mastery of making colour-based accusations about the kettle from its pot-based position, reported that Stewart was "not a force for good" and that his sustained criticisms of the right "had no foothold in the facts".

When understood as solely dependent upon the superiority of theoretical knowledge, the critic has no foothold in the social world and no way to choose among the many competing approaches and methods.

The broader and more standard conception of promoting an action by causing it simply has no foothold here, and if it did then the proposal would not correspond exactly with deontological intuitions.

But an evil word is like an evil tree torn out of the earth; it has no foothold".

It's an area where Google (the biggest danger to their business by far) has almost no foothold at all except in a few special cases.

Although the mafia has no obvious foothold in the art world, and would have had no apparent motive for burning down La Fenice, it had been responsible in the past for the bombing of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Church of St John Lateran in Rome and Milan's Gallery of Modern Art, as well as scores of art robberies and various other attempts to damage cultural institutions.

In the world where cross-discipline borders are increasingly disappearing, such philosophy should have no place or foothold.

He no longer had a foothold in his city of origin.

Square has no doubt created a foothold amongst small businesses, as the service is free to implement and now has cut out the transaction charge completely (a move that competitors VeriFone and Intuit have yet to make).

The British had invaded Tibet thinking the Russians already had a foothold there, but they found no significant Russian influence.

"We had a foothold there.