Sentence examples for lasting foothold from inspiring English sources
The alliance is also a gamble, perhaps a last-ditch effort for both Nokia and Microsoft to gain a lasting foothold in the booming market for sophisticated smartphones, where Apple's iPhone and Google's Android software are leading the way in technology innovation.
Nationalists see such a presence as a humiliation that would give the United States a lasting foothold in Russia's hinterland.
But the prospect of establishing a lasting foothold in the United States makes him, in some ways, a captive to his employer, which sponsored his visa application.
If plug-in cars finally gain a lasting foothold, serving notice to BP and OPEC alike that there's a new player in town, 2010 will be remembered as a watershed year.
Washington will have to compromise on key provisions of the deal, but the Pacific partnership will provide the United States with something it badly needs: A secure and lasting foothold for liberal trade, investment, and regulatory principles in the world's most economically promising region, one that might otherwise remain frozen in China's lengthening state capitalist shadow.
On Sunday, Syrian state media reported that rebels had agreed to give up their last foothold in Ghouta, in the eastern suburbs of the sprawling Syrian capital.
He was born in Sabtah (now Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in Morocco), where his Ḥammūdī ancestors had fled after the fall of Málaga, their last foothold in Spain, in 1057.
Russia has consistently shielded the Syrian president – not out of any love for him, but because, after the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime, he represents Russia's last foothold in the Middle East: and its best chance to demonstrate western fickleness.
Tuesday's results, which gave Republicans control of both the House and the Senate, may solidify her standing, as Democrats close ranks around her in an effort to hang on to the White House, their last foothold on power in Washington.
Its fighters have seized several military bases in northern Raqqa province, including an air base - the government's last foothold in the province - on Sunday.
With the island gone, the Crusaders lost their last foothold in the Holy Land.
