foothold

The area is 98 percent white, and the Klan has a strong foothold even to this very day.

For decades, the Chinese government has had a foothold on the African continent.

[Laughs] But, yes, I suppose Scientology has more of a foothold there than it does here.

Every time one fails to find a firm foothold, there is a danger of falling, sometimes to alarming depths.

It would allow the old way of doing things to regain a foothold in this young century.

Likewise your Majesty will have shelter for his vessels, and a foothold in that country, which abounds with meat and rice.

On these shallows water-loving plants and even certain trees, such as the willows and poplars, find a foothold.

He liked money, and what it would bring him, and if he had been sure of his foothold he would have been very happy.

They clung to it here and there with their hands while they felt for a foothold among the banks of gravel.

I leaped and caught the bottom rung of a fire escape, pulled myself up until I could get a foothold.