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The program teaches the value of "secular, democratic government"; Iran wants to nullify these teachings, and gain a foothold in Europe through the Muslims.
The EDF hoped, for fund-raising reasons, to stamp out optimism before it gained a foothold.
Portugal’s very precarious foothold on the Asian coast ended in 1999 with a formal handover to China.
Indeed, already, sadly as a result of the way the sections on aging research in the report were written, the myth that longevity has an inevitable tradeoff of diminished fertility is now gaining a further foothold: witness the January 26, 2004, issue of the The New Republic . In it, an article about this report of the Council falls right into the trap: it states, “But changes come with longer life.
Sweeping through the Punjab and Gujarat across to the western end of the Ganga valley, Mahmud of Ghazni (997–1030) used these raids more to finance his empire in Persia and Turkistan than to set up a permanent foothold in India.