toehold
Example Sentences
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“It’s less a takeover than targeted toeholds,” said Craig Singleton, senior director of the China Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank.
Ian Murray is Scottish Labour's longest serving MP – indeed for a while he was their only MP, the party's last toehold north of the border.
From BBC
The government's second argument is that without a deal, China would get a toehold in the islands.
From BBC
Her ambitions have a toehold in reality — she dreams of someday managing a Norms franchise — so it’s no shock that her big job interview is scheduled that very afternoon.
From Los Angeles Times
To keep progressing, one has to stay ahead of the thousands of others scrambling to get a toehold in the sport.
From Los Angeles Times
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