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Example sentences for: foothold

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The EDF hoped, for fund-raising reasons, to stamp out optimism before it gained a foothold.
Nothing has had a greater impact on the Costa Blanca than foreign invasion: Iberians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, and Moors had moulded Spain’s Mediterranean shores centuries before international tourism gained a foothold.
Portugal’s very precarious foothold on the Asian coast ended in 1999 with a formal handover to China.
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.
The merchants who established a foothold in Kobe included large numbers of Persians and Indian traders.