Sentence examples for industrial foothold from inspiring English sources
GROUPE BOLLORÉ is one of those family-owned European firms that seem to have jumped like mountain goats from foothold to industrial foothold down the decades.
That latter gives the company a foothold in the industrial Internet of Things market.
The BNP found it much harder to get a foothold in London than in the industrial north.
China's largest petroleum firm Petro China and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China have also established footholds in the emirates.
From 1914 through the early 1920s, Chinese investors were able to gain a tenuous foothold in the scramble to develop the industrial economy.
'The industrial logic is obvious,' said an industry source, 'it would create a powerhouse in the UK life insurance and pensions sector.' The two firms are also said to be a good geographical fit since the Pru has a reasonable foothold in the US and Asia, where Aviva is weak - while the predator is strong in Europe, where the Pru has little presence.
Microsoft has struggled to find a firm foothold in China, which is widely accused of pirating software on an industrial scale, but has recently signed deals with Chinese companies that could lead to a sharp increase in sales of its Windows operating system.
"We had a foothold there.
KEVIN ROOSE GAINING A FOOTHOLD The Federal Reserve opened the door for China's biggest bank to establish a presence in the United States on Wednesday, allowing the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to take a majority stake in an American institution.
Islamic State (IS) will cement its foothold.
