Sentence examples for major foothold from inspiring English sources

But it has few ports in the region, and Wang's project would represent a major foothold.

The resulting Treaty of Kuldja gave the Russians their first major foothold in the area.

The acquisition would give Apollo a major foothold in the United States, the world's second-largest auto market after China.

He said the agreement meant Volvo would "get a major foothold and share in the world's largest truck market".

The channel and other projects in Nicaragua, if finished, will give China a major foothold in Central America, a region traditionally influenced by the United States.

In neither country did Reform Judaism gain a major foothold, for the Orthodox establishment liberalized its synagogue practice while retaining its essentially conservative outlook.

The partnership is the latest pairing of Silicon Valley and Hollywood, as both industries seek to gain major footholds in the growing worlds of online and mobile media.

Soldiers from Chad and Niger drove the insurgents from Malam Fatori, one of Boko Haram's last major footholds near Nigeria's border with Niger, earlier this week.

The U.S. is poised to lose access to fast-growing clean energy markets as Europe, India and China gain major footholds in an industry estimated to be worth $6 trillion by 2030.

Japan's leading computer company, Fujitsu Ltd., said today that it was considering whether to buy a stake in ICL P.L.C., Britain's sole maker of mainframe computers, in a move that could give the Japanese company a major European foothold.

Even if things go as Democrats hope and Trump were to be removed by impeachment, it's not like the the Resistance would immediately gain some major new foothold in the government.