Sentence examples for of a foothold from inspiring English sources

Progressives do not have much of a foothold in this country.

But as has happened elsewhere in the world, it has failed to gain much of a foothold in Japan.

That was enough of a foothold in the game for Swansea to find a way to victory.

It is something that also seems unlikely to get much of a foothold in New York City.

By 1991, Mr. Rosen had established enough of a foothold to start a real estate business, RFR Holding, with Mr. Fuchs.

For Stevens, these policies embodied the ideal that in order to imagine the better world, you needed to have some semblance of a foothold.

Once cryptics began to appear, this real-world constraint meshed well with an editorial imperative: fewer words give the solver more of a chance of finding a foothold.

Edinburgh were out-of-sorts at set-pieces and their chances of finding a foothold in the match were further diminished when captain Greig Laidlaw and top-scorer Tim Visser were lost to injuries at half-time.

This was too bad, because "Freischutz's" only hope of gaining a foothold outside Germany lies in its score.

Seduction, love, talent are all tools for climbing the greasy pole to success, and along with filthy lucre, a means of buying a foothold at the aristocratic summit.

Mr. Collins says buying a multifamily with the intention of renting out one of the units to pay the mortgage, as the Hanchards did, can be one way of gaining a foothold in Baychester.