Sentence examples for of foothold from inspiring English sources

"The commercial services are going to have a tough time getting any kind of foothold," Mr. Bailey of Webnoize said.

By the time St Helens had established any sort of foothold in the game, Leeds seemed to have one foot in the final.

Instead, they say, Muslims could eventually gain the kind of foothold seen in Europe, where multicultural policies have allowed for what critics contend is an overaccommodation of Islamic law.

Tolerationist politics seeks to provide a sort of foothold for such groups as they carve out a protected social space for themselves; it represents an acknowledgment of both the reality and the permanence of diversity within contemporary societies.

There is every reason to hope that we've improved as a society to the point where the racial and ethnic craziness of the Gingriches and Limbaughs will finally have a tough time finding any sort of foothold.

After all, it says, if the U.S. withholds its relatively modest contribution, Russia, among others, will surely rush in to make up the shortfall and gain the kind of foothold it has not had in Egypt since it was kicked out by Anwar Sadat, in the early nineteen-seventies.

The crisis has resulted in the weakening of Iraqiya — and thereby of the foothold of Sunnis on a stake in public life — and the strengthening of Mr. Maliki's power, especially among his Shiite base.

Until this week's impressive recipe haul, cranberries had the tiniest of footholds in my culinary lexicon.

As the scandal dribbles on, new details have given critics plenty of footholds on the moral high ground.

We believe this work will be one of footholds toward achieving various whole-body behaviors of humanoid robots, especially carrying behaviors.

It is not new, but it has never gained much of a foothold here, in part because of its association with low-cost housing like mobile homes.