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But 18 months ago my foothold was not on the sheer cliff of senectitude but upon that plateau that Proust himself might have called "entre deux âges".

The more I became familiar with the presence of awareness, the weaker the foothold was for the feelings and stories that sustained my sense of self.

Regaining a foothold was one thing but maintaining it proved quite another.

During the first period, a promising foothold was established in the Ionian Islands, which had to be abandoned after the Treaty of Tilsit.

His attempt to maintain and strengthen Russian influence in Korea, where Japan also had a foothold, was partly responsible for the Russo-Japanese War (1904 05).

Although their quadruped robot could detect when a foothold was collapsing, they did not propose how to make the robot walk on fragile terrain without stumbling.

The district where the fire got firm foothold was the Alsatia of Chicago.

The first phase, the amphibious invasion and establishment of a secure foothold, was codenamed Operation Neptune.

Even if the NF lost in the general elections of the same year, their foothold was still strong in the local elections of 1989.

In mutually costly fighting over the following two days, a foothold was secured across the River Odon and efforts were made to expand this, by capturing strategic points around the salient and moving up the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division.

Migration could be reversed when the first foothold was deprotonated and the solution was heated.