Fahadh Faasil

The only thing my famous last name got me was a foothold in the industry. That was the easy part. The biggest problem is survival. As Fazil's son, I am expected to know everything - acting, dancing, horse riding... I am not trained in all these, and I don't think I ever will be.

Indian Actor

David E. Kelley

It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.

American Producer

Tom Perez

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

American Politician

George W. Bush

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

American President

Jack Keane

Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.

American General

Judith Durham

Everyone was surprised then that our music got such a foothold because they said 'You're so fresh-faced and wholesome.

Australian Musician

Lawrence Summers

Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.

American Economist

Chris Murphy

The Saudis helped the U.S. ensure that the Russians never got a meaningful foothold in the Middle East.

Edmund Burke

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Irish Statesman

Shamna Kasim

Dance has given me so many opportunities including a foothold into filmdom.

Indian Actress

Often used metaphorically to represent a starting point for growth or expansion in various fields.

Metaphorical Use

Commonly used in business to describe a small but important presence in a market.

Business Context

Implies gaining an advantage in a competitive environment.

Competitive Edge

Literally refers to a place on a surface where you can put your foot to support yourself.

Physical Support

Primarily used in rock climbing or hiking to describe a safe step on a rough surface.

Climbing Context

Can be used figuratively to suggest stability or a point of security in life or a career.

Figurative Stability

 There were no cracks or edges to hold on to, just small ripples of texture up a slightly less than vertical wall. I had to trust my life to the friction between my climbing shoes and the smooth granite. I carefully balanced my way upward, shifting my weight back and forth between the small smears. But then I reached a foothold that I didn't quite trust.

How I climbed a...

 creating great economic potential for mining. But the biggest benefit of the moon camp may not lie on the moon but beyond it. With the nearest possibly habitable world light-years away, and the International Space Station to be retired in about a decade, a moon base would be our first foothold

Would you live on the...

 these people are putting their bodies at risk for us for the human race when we get to Mars we need protection from radiation we use of drones to find a lava tube with the conditions we need to deploy a small domed habitat and that little foothold will become humankind's

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 climbing and I started rock climbing and I gotta get up to the ways up and I stopped because there was nothing to do there were no more handhold there were no more footholds I say this as an empirical truth and the person who is teaching me to rock climb said just

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 surface increase the chances that insects will lose their footing whilst downward pointing cells on the inner wall of the plant don't allow prey to gain a foothold and climb back out for those who slip in it's a likely one-way trip down to the plant's

This Plant Traps its...

 woman who has sworn to live her life as a man and the reason that this happens is really a social situation whether or not enough men in the family while women's rights are gaining a foothold in the capital in northern Albania

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 take it all right great nice job okay don't knock me over sorry to get a foothold here when you do cramp up quick thankfully got a full moon it's only reason we could still work this late otherwise we'd be in big trouble

Setting Up Camp in a...

 Our species can only be traced back in the fossil record to a few hundred thousand years ago. We know from the fossil record, bacteria life had grabbed a strong foothold

This ancient rock is...

 hold your next foothold everything shrinks down into this very succinct little bubble and your only responsibility is to be able to execute the next plan maneuvering

Foothold

A secure position from which further progress may be made.

Often appears as...

A place in a surface where a foot can be lodged to support someone's weight.

Often appears as...

Metaphorical Use

Business Context

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