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Example sentences for: foothold

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Plausible chronicling, laced with a dose of mythology, begins with the arrival of Korean scribes at the Japanese court around a.d. 400, at a time when Japan also had a military foothold in southern Korea.
It took a firm foothold in the northern provinces of the Low Countries — with Amsterdam at its heart.
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.
So in a.d. 294, they decided to build a defence on the east side to make it harder for any invaders to establish a foothold here.
During this period, East Coast Syndicate member Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel earned a foothold as a local casino operator.