Sentence examples for make a foothold from inspiring English sources

My father had left his family in the South to go make a foothold for himself.

"Virulence is kind of a side effect of the aggression a virus needs to get over the host's defenses and make a foothold," Dr. Lederberg said.

This is aside from the fact the Uber drivers have been beat up in Paris, France has adopted legislation to make it difficult for services like Uber by forcing them to wait 15 minutes before picking people up, German courts keep blocking and unblocking it and traditional taxi services go ballistic every time the company tries to make a foothold in a new city.

The House, meanwhile, has remained mostly stagnant, and is somewhat of a consolation prize for Democrats, who were hoping to make a stronger foothold in the Senate and other state positions.

However, it has not been shown analytically that to what extent satisfied links are more stable than adverse ones to make cooperation gain a foothold.

One of the first stops on the travelogue is the American Banknote Building in Hunts Point, where the gentrification that has already transformed many New York neighborhoods has made a tentative foothold.

Melbourne-via-Byron producer Nutrition has been making a solid foothold in the Australian underground with top-notch house compositions, including the solid dancefloor-driver "Advice Needed".

Luckily a couple of publishers did get it, and we were able to make a deal and get a foothold".

The diplomatic drain parallels a broader effort by Afghans to make sure they have a foothold abroad in case things go badly after the Western military withdrawal, which is scheduled to be completed in 2014.

"It's an enormous catchment area and fingers crossed he's [Mackay] allowed to bring a few players in, which I'm sure he will, and they'll have enough to make sure they can get a foothold".

Some can make a vertical climb, the researchers assert, "as long as footholds are available". .