Sentence examples for its bridgehead from inspiring English sources

The division maintained its bridgehead after it had linked up with Allied ground forces advancing from the invasion beaches, and was then deployed in a purely ground-based role as infantry.

From 7 June until 16 August, it first consolidated and then expanded its bridgehead.

As yet, there is little sign that the SNP is liable to do real damage to the Scottish Labour party, but Plaid has already broken through in Labour's Welsh heartlands and seems set to consolidate its bridgehead on June 7th.The party is reasonably confident that it will pick up two rural Labour-held seats it won in 1999 Carmarthen East & Dinefwr, and Conwy.

A seaborne Ottoman invading force landed at Abū Qīr in July but failed to maintain its bridgehead.

Its bridgehead is Eurex US, a Chicago-based subsidiary which, despite much lobbying from the big Chicago exchanges, had finally won approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), America's main regulator of futures exchanges, a week earlier.

BAE's main Middle East deal, and its bridgehead to the region, was the controversial al-Yamamah contract that brought BAE more than £40bn in revenue, but also a Serious Fraud Office investigation that was terminated under the orders of No 10 in 2006.

Germany's Deutsche Bank AG, for one, is interested in broadening its U.S. bridgehead.

Its location guarded the bridgehead, making it dangerous for German infantry attempting a crossing.

Adana's prosperity has long come from the fertile valleys behind it and from its position as a bridgehead on the Anatolian-Arabian trade routes.

This topic is important, not only because it represents a bridgehead for Chinese central government policy on its own territory and throughout East and South-East Asia, but also highlights the critical role urban planning can play in this new inter-governmental relationship.

And the third is perhaps the most contentious of all from a competitive standpoint: "Mexico is an interesting bridgehead given its geographical location," deGeer notes.