Sentence examples for obvious foothold from inspiring English sources
Although the mafia has no obvious foothold in the art world, and would have had no apparent motive for burning down La Fenice, it had been responsible in the past for the bombing of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Church of St John Lateran in Rome and Milan's Gallery of Modern Art, as well as scores of art robberies and various other attempts to damage cultural institutions.
— Sally Jewell bounded up a granite boulder near the peak of Old Rag Mountain and turned back to her hiking companion, who was staring up at the smooth rock that offered no obvious hand- or footholds.
But by starting with an obvious problem, the bootstrapped Tap Bio could gain a foothold in a business dominated by heavily funded startups, and angle to become the center of your online identity.
The benefits are obvious: HTC does a very good job making low-cost, feature rich smartphones, and Sony-Ericsson has a foothold in the musicphone market, as well as brand recognition HTC can't match.
It's an obvious point of ingress, because it communicates something essential and true about her contrarian tone, while also giving the reader a foothold on the familiar terrain of the cancer story.
"We had a foothold there.
Islamic State (IS) will cement its foothold.
Are plug-in cars establishing a foothold?
No one's established a firm foothold.
