Sentence examples for have the foothold from inspiring English sources

The Taliban "do not appear to have the foothold that they have apparently claimed," Lt. Col. Dave Corbould, commanding officer of the Canadian battle group in Kandahar, said in a statement issued by the NATO force.

While other luxury products have started to gain solid ground on the BRIC markets (Brazil, Russia, India and China), champagne doesn't have the same foothold in these places as other high-end goods.

Formula One may not have made the foothold in the United States that it has in many other parts of the world, but you would not know that this weekend in New York City.

Liszt remained grateful; without Bache, he acknowledged, his music might not have gained the foothold that it did.

The company is also expected to make an even more aggressive push outside of the States, where Microsoft easily has the largest foothold.

After iterative sets of niche experiments (e.g. by organising demonstration projects), innovations mature and have the potential to gain a foothold in the existing socio-technical regime.

Until this week's impressive recipe haul, cranberries had the tiniest of footholds in my culinary lexicon.

The speeches still have their foothold in the modern western school curriculum, albeit a considerably more tenuous one.

You should have a foothold in the New World by the 1700s at the latest.

This creates scenarios where outnumbered but better-organized Cruz supporters can still elect delegates and have a foothold in the state's delegation at the convention.

They're not stars, but they are actors who have a foothold in the industry and just need to pay the bills.