Sentence examples for has won a foothold from inspiring English sources
UKIP has won a foothold in Westminster.
It has won a foothold there by advising the state- owned power utilities on how to run their operations along privatized lines.
It is dominated by Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks, but Cisco has quickly won a foothold, he said.
Not so in Scotland, where the BNP has failed to win a foothold.
Republicans said the campaign for districts was a Democratic tactic to gain a foothold on the town board, to which no Democrat had won election in 24 years.
If EADS had won the tanker contract, it planned to eventually assemble commercial freighter planes at the plant in Mobile, giving it a manufacturing foothold that could help expand other sales in the United States.
Mannesmann gains a presence in another big market and, through Orange's stakes outside Britain, it also wins a foothold in several other European markets where it has sought to expand.
Apparently in a reference to the influence of the British National Party, a white supremacist group that has long had a foothold in Burnley and that won 11.3percentt of the Parliamentary vote there in the recent election, Mr. Denham added, "The whole House will condemn the activities of racist organizations and those who are racially motivated".
In total, more than 100,000 died in the failed allied bid to win a foothold in Turkey.
Issa said, "I have people who have a foothold in the bush".
