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Example sentences for: foothold

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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.
During this period, East Coast Syndicate member Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel earned a foothold as a local casino operator.
The EDF hoped, for fund-raising reasons, to stamp out optimism before it gained a foothold.
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.
The merchants who established a foothold in Kobe included large numbers of Persians and Indian traders.