This was at least on some level a collective fantasy of efficiency, a dream of industry, in a country whose already fragile toehold in the 20th century had just been forcibly rescinded.
With 5-nt 2-staple toeholds, whose strength should be similar to 2-nt 4-staple toeholds, 9 staples are now available for creating coded branch migration domains in which specific sets of edge staples are left out.
Anyone trying to get a toehold in the housing market, or whose children are, already knows how badly broken it is – and grasps the implications.
One especially violent gang under close FBI scrutiny is Mara Salvatrucha (MS), a network of street thugs and former paramilitary guerrillas whose exact genesis is disputed, but which got its first toehold among the children of Salvadorean refugees in Los Angeles.
Telefónica, whose main base of operations is in its native Spain and in Latin America, secured a toehold in Continental Europe in 2000, when it joined other telecommunications companies in paying billions of dollars for new wireless spectrum.
In Aronofsky's vision, the destructiveness of the artist's vanity goes hand in hand with the destructiveness of the crowd, of the individuals whose enthusiasm, whose fandom, whose fleeting or symbolic connection to the artist gives them their own toehold on the public realm, on a public identity.
To the Ethiopian Christians, in whose religion Jerusalem has always played a central role, the compound, called the Monastery of the Sultan, is the last toehold of a sad history.
Whose crime and whose punishment?
An obscure hallucinogenic herb from Mexico is gaining a toehold in the world of recreational drugs, prompting law enforcement officials to increase their scrutiny of the plant, which is legal, and moving health experts to issue cautions about the drug, whose jarring effects are not fully understood.
Depends on whose mind, whose soul.
