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The time-based arts have certainly expanded their foothold in New York's major museums over the last few months.

The Tories hope to capitalise on their lead on law-and-order issues to expand their foothold in the north.

It is no coincidence that this was when the British established their foothold in the Caribbean, through slavery and sugar.

The speeches still have their foothold in the modern western school curriculum, albeit a considerably more tenuous one.

ESPN are also set to bid as they are desperate to retain their foothold in the Premier League market - they currently show 23 live matches a season.

Foreign firms have not been pulling out of Egypt they don't want to lose their foothold in the Middle East's most populous nation.

The militants are close to losing one of their footholds in Syria, with US-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters besieging the town of Manbij in the province of Aleppo, an Isis outpost not far from the Turkish border which had allowed it to threaten rebel groups fighting the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

They find their footholds in the conversation where they can.

Now, with the economy spiraling downward and a crackdown continuing on illegal immigrants, many of them are learning how uncertain their foothold is in the work force in the United States.

In the war's closing stages, the hotels' balconies gave an unimpeded view as American tanks blasted their way from their first foothold in Baghdad, the former Saddam International Airport, into the Republican Palace presidential compound that was the White House of Mr. Hussein's Iraq.

A correspondent for The New York Times, F. Tillman Durdin, reported that the Japanese "seemed determined to make a desperate attempt to retain their southernmost foothold in New Guinea or sell their lives dearly in losing it".