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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.
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.
Islam never gained a strong foothold in Bali, which was difficult to invade because of its many reefs and lack of harbors, and had few products to attract traders.
In addition to becoming a center of Western trade, Nagasaki provided a firm foothold in Japan for the Catholic Church — today much revived after 250 years of brutal suppression under the Tokugawa shoguns.
It took a firm foothold in the northern provinces of the Low Countries — with Amsterdam at its heart.