Sentence examples for this new foothold from inspiring English sources

"I would find this new foothold that allowed me to do a certain move in a way that was a little bit more secure — stuff like that.

During the next few months, successful land and naval campaigns against the royalists secured the new foothold, and it was at Huacho that San Martín learned that Guayaquil (in Ecuador) had declared independence on October 9. Bolívar, learning about the collapse of the Cadiz expedition, spent the year 1820 preparing a liberating campaign in Venezuela.

"If the Assad regime did fall, this would provide more Islamist militants with a potential opportunity to establish a new foothold in the heart of the Middle East," said Charles Lister, an analyst with Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center.

Secure the two axes into the ice before stepping up to a new foothold.

It is currently searching for a new foothold in the city.

"Our counterterrorism experts are watching for any signs that these groups might gain a new foothold there".

But having moved into the Middle East power vacuum created by American inaction in Syria, Putin will fight tenaciously to preserve his new foothold in the region.

It seemed clear that the mosque siege was intended to forestall another prolonged sit-in that would allow the Morsi camp to gain a new foothold.

Similarly alarming are Ukip's new foothold in Wales and its steady encroachment on to Labour turf in the north of England.

Relying on herd immunity is shortsighted, since over time fewer people will be infected and the virus can gain a new foothold.

The more vigorous gyrations of Justice Stevens succeeded only in shaking the bee farther down inside his shirt, where it found a new foothold on the middle of his back along the spine.