Sentence examples for temporary foothold from inspiring English sources
On Saturday night, the Occupy Wall Street movement managed to gain a temporary foothold on Wall Street, courtesy of an art show partly inspired by the group's protests.
It has also made pre-emptive arrests in Midan, the neighboring district, closer to downtown, where rebels gained a temporary foothold in July and which they said was their next target.
He is, after all, for the moment at least a man who has nothing to lose but a temporary foothold on the most severe case of shifting sands in all of the game.
Kublai continued the assault against the Song, gaining a temporary foothold on the southern banks of the Yangtze.
Manpower and the other temp agencies had gained a foothold, and temporary employment was widely considered a legitimate part of the economy.
She and others on the street are still looking for sturdy tarpaulins or tents and wondering how to secure a foothold in the new temporary relocation sites, like the one north of this city in Corail Cesse Lesse, to which thousands from the camp at the Pétionville country club were recently moved.
This is in keeping with an economy in which every little foothold that working families have seems temporary — it helps to make flimsiness a permanent state.
Camp Lemonnier, a sun-baked Third World outpost established by the French Foreign Legion, began as a temporary staging ground for U.S. Marines looking for a foothold in the region a decade ago.
These deep-stuck poor require not just a temporary boost back up, but long-term support--and even guidance on how to maintain a foothold.
"We had a foothold there.
