Sentence examples for national foothold from inspiring English sources

Brazilian politician who was a pragmatic power broker who became a regional force as the governor (1970 74, 1979 83, and 1990 94) of Bahia state and established a national foothold as the leader of the right-wing Liberal Front Party (PFL) and as president (1997 2001) of the federal Senate.

Its policy adviser, Phil Evans, said: "While Morrisons have today gained a green light to get a national foothold in this enormously important market for consumers, Britain's consumers have also gained greatly and the robust nature of competition in this market has been safeguarded for the foreseeable future".

In 1996, when Therese M. Morr helped found the Cheshire chapter of Little League Baseball, giving the national organization its first foothold in the town, she said, the managers in the league's eastern division office practically held a party for her.

When openly anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi political parties gained a foothold in national parliaments and regional councils, and now in the European Parliament itself, more alarm bells should be raised.

Senate Leader for the Nationals, she regained a foothold in the Coalition ranks after being dumped from the shadow ministry for defying then leader Malcolm Turnbull, and crossing the floor to vote with the Greens on environmental legislation around tax breaks.

Stabilizing the region with money, he said, helps keep radical Islamists from getting a foothold and helps national security.

"Our regulation will ensure that predatory lending does not gain a foothold in the national banking system".

The Green win was the result of a strategic shift by the party away from building broad-based national support to getting a foothold in parliament.

And nation-building never gets a foothold here at home.

The Lib Dem decision was also a disappointment to the Conservatives who had been hoping to get a foothold on power at national level for the first time since John Major lost the 1997 election.

Without a foothold in politics and national governments, it's simply unlikely transhumanism could grow as large as is possible.