Sentence examples for powerful foothold from inspiring English sources
It has a powerful foothold here in the heart of Central Europe.
The deal would give Intel a powerful foothold in the market for smartphone chips, a segment of the business that is experiencing strong growth.
More recently, the Oslo peace process gave the embryonic political institutions of the embryonic Palestine a powerful foothold in the city, symbolised by the transformation of Orient House, a former hotel, into a cross between a town hall and an embassy.
And it accesses enough of a user's machine to give hackers a powerful foothold.
"Genetics gives us a huge, powerful foothold into understanding how people get sick and what you can do about it," says Gil McVean, professor of statistical genetics at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford, United Kingdom.
By The New Yorker September 1, 2010 Labor Day has its origins at the end of the nineteenth century, when President Grover Cleveland rushed legislation through Congress, calling for a national holiday for workers in an effort to placate the nation's powerful unions and gain a foothold for his reëlection campaign.
In a departure from the current literature's focus on elite bargains, we showcase the efforts by less powerful groups to gain a foothold in decision-making processes.
Since taking office two years ago, Turnbull has aggressively pushed back against the powerful anti-vaccine movement that created a foothold in Australia in the early 1990s, driving immunization rates down to near 70percentt in many parts of the country.
A foothold in Tirah gives the Taliban powerful additional influence, he added: "Although they will not participate in this election, they will be playing politics".
Vigilante groups armed with high-powered weapons of questionable origin have pushed out a powerful drug cartel, the Knights Templar, from some of their key footholds in a region called Tierra Caliente.
The avionics and engine-components firm belongs more logically under the wing of the powerful GE Aviation Systems business, which, with this deal, acquired a foothold in Europe.
