foothold

My father had left his family in the South to go make a foothold for himself.

Without a foothold, they would not have been able to get that.

This gave the company a good foothold for later trade.

There was a second foothold just where he wanted it to be.

By 1998, though, he was beginning to get a second foothold.

A good thing he had decided against using it as a foothold, then.

Many major foreign companies are trying to get a foothold in the Chinese market.

Others are trying to establish a foothold on the future.

It is best not given a foothold in the garden.

"The idea so far has been to get a foothold everywhere we can."

"But the white men want more than a foothold on the beach."

They see the rest of the field still scrambling for a foothold.

"They want to get a foothold back in the city," he said.

The price of a foothold in the system is compromise.

The right may grasp a foothold here in the future.

They're too busy making a living, trying to get an economic foothold in this country.

So, much better to shut this thing down and not let it get a foothold.

On land, it took a long time for life to gain a foothold.

He was able to maintain a foothold but to do little more than that.

He was scrambling for a foothold when someone came at him from the side.

But again I reached a point where there were no hand or footholds.

His feet found a foothold and he began to descend.

For once freedom gets a foothold, he says, people will accept nothing less.

"The whole idea is to help industry establish a foothold in space," he said.

The footholds were easy, and he lost no time climbing up the wall.