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Example sentences for: foothold

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--and the idea seems to be that China.com has a key foothold in the market.
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.
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.
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.
Given this union foothold, collective bargaining in apparel focused on the standardization of labor in a market area and a product line.