Sentence examples for strategic foothold from inspiring English sources

No outside power would attempt to gain a strategic foothold to use against other outside powers.

So eastern Ukraine is better compared to Lebanon in the 1980s, when Iranian agents built Hizbullah, securing a strategic foothold north of Israel and manipulating Lebanese politics.

The cable comments that Iran is watching the US troop withdrawal schedule closely as it tries to make permanent its "strategic foothold".

Beleaguered, outgunned and outnumbered, local police have fought to retain control of Sangin, a strategic foothold in the province where the Taliban makes vast amounts of money from harvesting opium crops.

Mr. Skarphedinsson scoffed at a widely held belief here that Mr. Huang is leading a plot by Beijing to secure a strategic foothold in Iceland, a NATO member that is entirely bereft of military muscle.

Gtech, which has announced three acquisitions since September, said the purchase would give it a "strategic foothold" in the regional Caribbean Lotto game and would help it gain video-lottery customers.

Pakistan's tribal areas "remain the greatest danger as these are strategic footholds for Al Qaeda and its senior leaders, including Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri," the blunt four-star general wrote, adding that they "remain key to extremists' efforts to rally Muslim resistance worldwide".

However, a series of miscommunications and withdrawals by Allied forces in the ensuing battles allowed the Japanese to swiftly gain strategic footholds, which eventually led to the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942.

Despite Mr Huang's protests, the suspicion persists that he is a front for a sinister Chinese attempt to gain a strategic Icelandic foothold in the hope that melting Arctic ice will create a navigable North-west Passage (see map).

And a lot of that competition wasn't free at all; it was subsidized by foreign nations seeking a foothold in strategic industries, i.e. those with a future.

Analysts contend that C.R.R.C. will almost certainly lose money on the deal, but that it was a strategic bid to gain a foothold in the U.S. Given the deficiencies of Chinese manufacturers, the ho-hum response from U.S. manufacturers to the influx of new rivals makes sense; the welcome mats laid out by cities like Springfield are another matter.