Sentence examples for initial foothold from inspiring English sources
Treaty of Saigon, (June 1862), agreement by which France achieved its initial foothold on the Indochinese Peninsula.
The Labour Party's initial foothold among Irish Catholic workers, who mostly held menial low-paid jobs, gradually broadened out through the trade unions to embrace most of the Protestant working class.
Ferry's support of various colonial expeditions sometimes behind the back of the Chamber gave France protectorates over Tunisia and in Vietnam (Annam and Tonkin), a large new colony in the Congo basin, and an initial foothold in Madagascar.
"This is the initial foothold," Mr Baumgartner said.
Its initial foothold, the world of Web-based animation, provided a perfect niche for Flash.
"They're looking really for any snippets of information that will give them and initial foothold in their target organisation," explained David Emm, a senior researcher for Kaspersky Lab.
Hall's initial plan was to get a foothold in the UK market and, with the company diversifying into different sectors with new products, this focus appeared to be the right one.
The attackers then use the footholds gained in the initial attack to further penetrate the organization to steal privilege and confidential data and intellectual property.
Hold out they did, however, their solidity and organisation gradually dulling their opponents' initial sharpness, and once they gained a foothold in the game they even put together an attack of their own, Demba Ba forcing a decent save from David de Gea after Hatem Ben Arfa's cleverly lofted pass.
Leila Benali, an authority on Middle East oil at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, told the Times that "The bigger prize everybody is waiting for is development of the giant new fields," and that these initial contracts give the winning companies a "foothold" to vie for longer-term deals in Iraq.
After inoculated into murine skin, B. burgdorferi must first be able to evade initial innate immune elimination and gain a foothold.
