Sentence examples for the first foothold from inspiring English sources

Part of the problem is that, by definition, they have no factors, which is normally the first foothold in investigating a number problem.

Once an epidemic was under way, those doctors were granted broad police-like powers, and they established the first foothold of federal authority in the South since the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

In the meantime, however, observers believe Phillips is in with a chance of delivering the first foothold in the City of London for campaigners who want to radically transform it.

The letdown begins at 19,500 feet over the southwestern limits of the city, in a twin-turboprop aircraft of Royal Jordanian Airlines that seeks safety from ground-to-air missiles by flying a downward spiral over what was Saddam International Airport -- the first foothold seized by American troops when they reached the city on April 3, and now a principal stronghold of the American occupation.

Migration could be reversed when the first foothold was deprotonated and the solution was heated.

After this first foothold in the United States, Soco has plans for a few more United States locations, mostly on the East Coast.

He steered Santander to become one of the biggest lenders in the world and gave the bank its first foothold in the UK by taking over Abbey National a decade ago.

In 1996, when Therese M. Morr helped found the Cheshire chapter of Little League Baseball, giving the national organization its first foothold in the town, she said, the managers in the league's eastern division office practically held a party for her.

Their aim was to avoid the fate of PC-makers, which have ended up as commodity box-shifters while Microsoft supplies the software and creams off the profit.Microsoft got its first foothold in the mobile industry by going behind the handset-makers' backs to their customers, the mobile operators.

In 1977, the company bought its first US shopping centre, in Connecticut, but it was not until 2000 that the company gained its first foothold in the UK market.

Established on May 14 , 1607 the colony gave England its first foothold in the European competition for the New World, which had been dominated by the Spanish since the voyages of Christopher Columbus in the late 15th century.