Sentence examples for won a foothold from inspiring English sources

It is dominated by Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks, but Cisco has quickly won a foothold, he said.

UKIP has won a foothold in Westminster.

It has won a foothold there by advising the state- owned power utilities on how to run their operations along privatized lines.

Not so in Scotland, where the BNP has failed to win a foothold.

Mannesmann gains a presence in another big market and, through Orange's stakes outside Britain, it also wins a foothold in several other European markets where it has sought to expand.

In total, more than 100,000 died in the failed allied bid to win a foothold in Turkey.

But three months after the extremist right-wing group won an electoral foothold in Parliament, talk of Golden Dawn seems to be on everybody's lips.

Frederick now won himself a foothold in the Austrian domains on the Danube and succeeded in acquiring the rich estates and fiefs of Ulrich.

Leila Benali, an authority on Middle East oil at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, told the Times that "The bigger prize everybody is waiting for is development of the giant new fields," and that these initial contracts give the winning companies a "foothold" to vie for longer-term deals in Iraq.

On a lifeless wicket, Australia won a crucial toss and set about regaining a foothold in the series.

Republicans said the campaign for districts was a Democratic tactic to gain a foothold on the town board, to which no Democrat had won election in 24 years.