Charrington, a philanthropist and moral crusader, filed a police complaint against the Fulham chairman for "grossly unnecessary violence" but, as noted in When the Whistle Blows by John Kemp and Andrew Riddoch, his grievance was not upheld once it was established that during the scuffle "his tall silk hat remained on his head, he did not lose possession of his cigar, and never lost foothold".
They lost foothold in life as well as their sense of security and they became vulnerable.
Many homeless people lost footholds in subterranean passages beneath the World Trade Center.
The government would then, for the first time, lose its foothold on the Jaffna peninsula.
"You lose a foothold in the formal economy and it's a natural place to go".
And as area codes lose their foothold, certain cultural references may also drop their meaning.
Foreign firms have not been pulling out of Egypt they don't want to lose their foothold in the Middle East's most populous nation.
Iran had hoped that the group would lose its foothold in Iraq after the collapse of Saddam Hussein's government and had demanded that its members be handed over to Iran.
Tells the history of court tennis, which was probably invented in France, by monks, some time before 1050 A.D. In the 18th century, the game began to lose its foothold, after a long reign of popularity.
But in the meantime, Mr. Parker's plight has become a parable of sorts, and not just because of fears that the poor may lose their foothold in Harlem as property values rise.
Yes, his team visibly tired and when Germany scored, combined with the news of Ghana equalising, there was a definite sense of looking at the clock and back at the tired legs of the USA players and wondering if they were about to lose their foothold on the game while Ghana surged past an equally tired Portugal.
