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Sentence Examples Substantial key money is also required to get a foothold in or around Grafton Street. Then, just as the team seemed to be establishing a foothold, two interceptions set them back on their heels. Most of those seeking to buy a newly built house are young people attempting to gain a foothold on the by now legendary property ladder. Without warning my foothold broke and I slid downward ripping a gash in the plastic that held the containers of water together. Dustin eased himself over the edge, searching for a foothold, which he soon found. Despite the two-goal cushion, City just needed a foothold to get back into the match. Deutsche Bank has been trying without success to get a firm foothold in the market. Regaining a foothold in international psychology was a hard-won achievement, to be sure. Analysts say Golkar boasts the most qualified candidates and has a strong foothold throughout Indonesia. Something has crossed our lives so that we are about to lose foothold in the public world of common sense. Samsung's experience in handsets will doubtless help it gain a foothold in these markets. There's nothing immediate here for people struggling to get a foothold on the property ladder. And it's given them a foothold in the game, after 15 minutes in which they were run ragged. Respect has now got a strong foothold in east London, where the labour movement started off. The extreme left can't get a foothold in UK politics as independents, so it looks like a return to entryism for them. You are bracing to maintain your foothold on your fitness center enrollment. Still, Sweeney feels confident that the changes under way in Boston are gaining a firm foothold. More encouragingly, having weathered the storm, the Minstermen set about establishing a foothold in the game. Regency Gates and Railings has now established a firm foothold in the commercial and domestic exterior homes market. Cable firms took full advantage of BT's slow start and established a strong foothold. Show More Sentences I bend under contorted branches and let myself down by dropping two or three feet to the next foothold. Yet even as I stood observing him, that tenuous foothold gave way and he slid backwards. Carishia placed one foot upon the foothold and threw her other leg over Windom. France had regained Calais, England's only foothold on the continent and its last symbol of Plantagenet glory. The idea first got a foothold with a bird project initiated by the Audubon Society. Possessing the resilience and determination of their forebears, the Ilonggos slowly regained their foothold. By stepping down hard I actually made a stable foothold, and then used my ice axe to probe the next foothold. Europeans usually built defensive stockades immediately upon arrival in the New World in order to protect their foothold on the shore. Oldfield was the biggest star of an emerging sport struggling to gain a foothold of legitimacy. As a beast of burden the yak can keep a foothold on even the steepest path and it can be ridden. Virtually all of his submissions were taken from the bayou country in southern Louisiana in foothold traps by fur trappers. Gradually the West Mayo team got a foothold and they scratched out three points before the break to give themselves a chance. Unforgiving dry, and tempestuous rainy seasons ensure that mankind's foothold here will forever be tenuous. Scotland has had tremendous success in the past in attracting investment by foreign firms looking for a foothold in Europe. Bill James being hired by the Sox is another sign of the foothold that sabermetrics has gained in baseball's front offices. It became apparent that I have a sizeable polyp that has gained a foothold across the top of my nose, blocking both of my nasal passages. We need to articulate the fact that trappers using foothold traps was essential to this unprecedented reintroduction success. Norma was an actress and had worked with The Old Vic, but, bored with walk-on parts, she was trying to get a foothold elsewhere. Treads and steps of the accommodation ladder should be so designed that an adequate and safe foothold is given at the operative angles. The thought was rather alien to hard-nosed capitalist marketeers and took many years to secure a foothold. Show More Sentences In the days following the D-Day landings, Allied troops carved a tenuous foothold on the coast of Normandy. To help young jockeys get a foothold in the sport, those under 26 can claim a weight allowance in certain races. The area is 98 percent white, and the Klan has a strong foothold even to this very day. For decades, the Chinese government has had a foothold on the African continent. There are also proposals for new roads and streets, shopping plazas and workspaces, with stores like Superquin likely to seek a foothold in the new town centre. Eros, the life force, desperately trying to find a foothold in the arid landscape of Ordinary Life. It would allow the old way of doing things to regain a foothold in this young century. And today, unlike in the 1950s, the hard-right has gained much more of a foothold in corporate America. But while the Paleo diet has rapidly gained a foothold in the public consciousness, it has also been criticized in the media. What the modernists of the 1920s and 1930s had wanted was a kind of materialist foothold that would sustain the progressive development of identity. Off the Kent coast shipwrecked seamen managed to find a foothold don the Goodwin Sands, but they knew the rising sea would drown them if they were not taken off. She places her boot on the first foothold, and reaches for the handholds. The purple-flowered black swallow-wort prefers open areas and have a foothold in the Hudson Valley, Long Island, southern New York and the New England coast. At the Emperor's death, the Byzantines had control of most of Italy, North Africa, and a small foothold in southern Spain. Dutch East India Company set their foothold on Batavia in the 17th century and was succeeded by Netherlands East Indies in the 19th century. The first phase, the establishment of a secure foothold, was codenamed Neptune. German attacks resumed the next morning, but the Poles retained their foothold on the ridge. Gort knew that the ports needed to supply such a foothold were already being threatened. German attacks began on 18 October and on 22 October, German troops gained a foothold over the river at Tervaete. A foothold was established on Aubers Ridge on 17 October and French cavalry captured Fromelles. Show More Sentences The entire 115th Brigade soon rallied, and achieved their initial objective while the 113th were able to gain a foothold near theirs. Thus he established a foothold in the borderland between the Franks and the Moors. The smaller foothold the Portuguese had in wider India had linguistic effects. As diesel power, more especially with electric transmission, became more reliable in the 1930s it gained a foothold in North America. The first phase, the amphibious invasion and establishment of a secure foothold, was codenamed Operation Neptune. For Gloucester a vital foothold, for the Falcons a strength-sapping kidney punch sandwiched between Noon's brace. It was only with the advent of American Unitarianism that it gained a foothold in the Unitarian movement. The entry into Kenya would provide the bank a foothold into the African market. This was the first real political foothold with territorial implications that the British acquired in India. They gained a strong foothold in the Empire's territories, and Charles was determined not to let this happen in the Netherlands. Johns managed to gain foothold on the island, but failed to reach the summit. Both Azov and Black Sea Cossacks were resettled to colonise the Kuban steppe which was a crucial foothold for Russian expansion in the Caucasus. These American settlers established a permanent foothold in the area and ignored Spanish authorities. Opportunistic bands of Normans successfully established a foothold in southern Italy. The pact also solidifies Russia's military foothold in Transcaucasia as a warning to the larger neighbours, such as Iran and Turkey. Full control of this trade by the Portuguese was not possible, and they remained participants without a foothold in the islands. The Spanish uprising in 1808 at last permitted Britain to gain a foothold on the Continent. The Challenge Air Cargo deal, which brought coveted landing rights, gave UPS a strategic foothold in the region. The QQ is an internet-based insurance company pioneering business service attempting to establish a foothold in the cyberindustry. The company has established a secure foothold in the market. Show More Sentences The Order had inherited Gniew from Sambor II, thus gaining a foothold on the left bank of the Vistula. Augustine and then promptly defeated an attempt led by the French Captain Jean Ribault and 150 of his countrymen to establish a French foothold in Spanish Florida territory. In 357 the Salian king entered the Roman Empire and made a permanent foothold there by a treaty granted by Julian, who forced back the Chamavi to Hamaland. Methyl cellulose is the leading cellulose ether, with an established foothold in the construction industry and growing applications in food and pharmaceuticals. Rollo emerged as the outstanding personality among the Norsemen who had secured a permanent foothold on Frankish soil in the valley of the lower Seine. Introduced in the early 1920s, jazz took a particularly strong foothold in Italy, and remained popular despite the xenophobic cultural policies of the Fascist regime. After two weeks without being able to gain a foothold in China they decided to run the blockade and managed to escape with the loss of two ships and several dozen men. In the former Soviet Union, polecats are hunted chiefly in late autumn and early winter with guns and hunting dogs, as well as foothold traps and wooden snares. Critics, on the other hand, claim this can give extreme parties a foothold in parliament, sometimes cited as a cause for the collapse of the Weimar government. It has also taken full control of Rwandese company, Kigali Cement, giving the regional cement manufacturer a stronger foothold in East Africa's fourth-largest economy. By AD 900 the Vikings secured for themselves a foothold on Frankish soil along the Lower Seine River valley in what is now France that became known as Normandy. Indeed, by the end of the 1960s concretism had gained only a tenuous foothold in the centers of literary modernism and avant-gardism but continued to flourish in its outposts. Folk song traditions were taken to Australia by early settlers from England, Scotland and Ireland and gained particular foothold in the rural outback. Dalkia India will be added to the EFS Group of companies, expanding the company's regional operational capabilities and strengthening its foothold in the MENASA region. Introduced in the early 1920s, jazz took a particularly strong foothold on Italians, and remained popular despite the xenophobic cultural policies of the Fascist regime. Also, large numbers of Australians travel and live and work for periods overseas and encounter varieties of racism and exclusionism which have never gained a foothold here. Even though dual-fuel reciprocating engines are gaining a significant foothold in this market, the turbine plant remains popular with some owners. Examples from Classical Literature He kicked into it with his feet, got a foothold, and worked the hole bigger. She sought a firmer foothold for her new life, a source which should lastingly and invariably satisfy her inmost being. The foothold was, moreover, less firm than before, and his heavy brogues sank to the latchet in the yielding soil. On the broader shelves the mountain maple, the silver birch, and the hobble-bush secure a precarious foothold. The calf could just reach its bushy edges with his upstretched muzzle, but he could get no foothold by which to clamber out. If, however, the fungicide is upon the plant before the fungus is, the parasite may not be able to obtain a foothold. Were predacious creatures the most important foes of the rabbit it would never have obtained a firm foothold in Australia. He reached the rocket ship and went up the ladder, scrambling, missing his foothold, pulling himself up with clutching hands. Our attack will have as its objective the seizure of a foothold on the high ground. Not wanting to go around it, he slid down one side and, with an ice pick, started to hack a foothold in the opposite bank. At length for my seared and writhing body there was no longer an inch of foothold on the firm floor of the prison. Somewhere on the foothold of the rocks men were lurking, I made sure. It is so easy for him to get a foothold in a girl's heart here. A new tributary for the archic man, and a foothold in the enemy's country. He scrambled and fought desperately for foothold in the slipping earth. Then she climbs to safe foothold and hangs, while other gorged bees hang on to her in a cluster. This time the Germans did get a foothold on the west side of the Yser. In Campania the Alexandrian cult gained a foothold earlier than in Rome. The battle between the readymade and tailor-made clothes has intensified, although tailoring workrooms, mainly for mens wears, appear losing their foothold. No man though he had twenty hands and twenty feet could get a foothold on it and climb it, for it runs sheer up, as smooth as though it had been polished. Show More Sentences The snow was from two to three feet deep, but soft and yielding, so that the horses had no foothold, but kept plunging forward, straining themselves by perpetual efforts. There was a wall of granite on each side, high and precipitous, especially on our right, and so smooth that a few evergreens could hardly find foothold enough to grow there. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of foothold? Words that rhyme with foothold What is the plural of foothold? What is the noun for foothold? Translations for foothold Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words foothills foothill footgear footfalls footfall footers footholds footie footing footings foot-in-mouth foot in the door 8-letter Words Starting With f fo foo foot footh footho foothol