Sentence examples for small foothold from inspiring English sources

But as he enters his last weeks in office, he seems to have gained a small foothold of appreciation here.

But although the New Democratic Party established a small foothold in the late 20th century, the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives continued their dominance into the 21st century.

Mr. Lee decided to establish a small foothold in Asia because his business in Britain was seeing increased interest from Asian buyers.

But sites dedicated to news have found only a small foothold, and most of those are run by major news organizations, which often treat them as sideshows.

In a lyrical patchwork of fine-grained nature writing, conversations with villagers and rapturous rambles, Thin Paths recounts not only the couple's slow, tentative acclimatisation to this ancient landscape and its surviving people as she finds "a small foothold of belonging".

And what's going to happen in this country, where CDMA has gained a small foothold but is lagging the worldwide GSM customer base by some 98 million people?

Where is the money going?" Though a few privately owned and foreign banks have gained small footholds, China's banking system is dominated by four giant commercial banks, all state-owned.

The trail occasionally deteriorated into crude stairs – small footholds that tilted vertiginously toward a precipitous slope.

In Asia, digital music has an even smaller foothold.

In any event, it involved standing on increasingly smaller footholds, the last only a quarter of an inch wide, and you have a broken toe.

The players are wedged in between two walls, in what Bush Administration torturers call a "stress position," held up by progressively smaller footholds.