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As far as western powers are concerned, the worst outcome is the foothold that the Islamic State (Isis), through its Libyan affiliate Ansar al-Sharia, is establishing in and around Benghazi.

Professor Yan Xuetong, president of management board of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Poliny commented in July 2013 that, "providing public good to the international community is the foothold for a healthy competition between China and the United States".

The wide end of the dodecamer is embedded in the procapsid shell, while the narrow end of the dodecamer, protruding out of the procapsid, is the foothold for pRNA binding.

A "small" amount of taxes and programs were the foothold for today's massive government programs... Find out how to fend for yourself.

The Spanish coastal fortifications in Veracruz, Callao and Chiloé, were the footholds that resisted until 1825 and 1826 respectively.

"This is the initial foothold," Mr Baumgartner said.

In addition, since SpoIIIE can slip under force and re-engage the DNA upstream of the slipping site, constructs with a stepping-stone of 1 bp represent the most stringent crossing obstacles because 1 bp is the minimum foothold needed by the motor.

Raqqa is the main Syrian foothold of Islamic State.

There's a real medina feel here, not surprising given the town was the first Arab foothold on the Iberian peninsula.

Nick Starr, executive director of the National, said in an interview on Thursday that he did not expect a wave of National productions to flood the New York marketplace, nor was the office a foothold for "a rampant growth strategy into America".

Norfolk was the last significant foothold of British authority in Virginia; after raiding Virginia's coastal areas for a time, its last Royal Governor, Lord Dunmore, left for good in August 1776.