Sentence examples for our foothold on from inspiring English sources

Salyut, Mir, Skylab, and the ISS were seen as a step back because the public perceived that we were retracting from our foothold on the Moon.

"What is certain is that SK Telecom will never give up on Helio, our foothold for business in the U.S.," he added.

The rich can afford to live elsewhere, but the poor might get a foothold on our street.

The older and wiser among you will not be surprised to hear it is Gen Y that has allowed this strange and foreign garb to get a foothold on our verdant shores.

Protein, the nutrient responsible for cell growth and repair, is slowly gaining a foothold on our consciousness as celebs are pictured clutching whey shakes, the latest health food bars come fortified with added protein and every body-overhaul success story seems to credit balanced protein as the secret.

However, the biggest reasons to send humans to Mars are inspiration, a thirst for knowledge, curiosity, and a foothold on our future.

The stuff of life -- the organics, water -- would have been eviscerated whilst the inner solar system formed, and it is only through 'seeding' from this twilight zone that life could have ultimately had the chance to get a foothold on our beautiful home planet.

Because red-dwarf stars are essentially immortal their life spans are much longer than our sun's life could have many more chances of gaining a foothold on Gliese 581g.

Glass, twisted metal, brick and slabs of concrete provide a foothold on the muddy roads in Grozny, where hardly one building has been left standing.

Under a joint byline in the Evening Standard the pair were explicit about their motive: "Our mission for 2016 is to help Londoners of all incomes find a foothold on the housing ladder".

By 2 October, one of the division's brigades had gained a foothold on Finschhafen, but soon encountered fierce Japanese resistance.