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Example sentences for: foothold

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The merchants who established a foothold in Kobe included large numbers of Persians and Indian traders.
When you consider that China.com has only 750,000 registered users in a country of more than a billion people, calling its foothold "key" seems rather dubious.
After all, both Parvez and the call girl Bettina are playing by capitalism's rules, trying to get a foothold in a society that closely guards access to its more "proper" ladders to the top.
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.
Given this union foothold, collective bargaining in apparel focused on the standardization of labor in a market area and a product line.