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Definition of Foothold

Foothold

  1. A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may tread or rest securely; footing.

Foothold Quotations

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

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.
George W. Bush

After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.
Dee Dee Myers

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Wilhelm Reich

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.
Ron Wyden
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Foothold Translations

foothold in French is stop
foothold in German is fester Stand, Halt
foothold in Hungarian is talpalatnyi hely
foothold in Italian is alt
foothold in Norwegian is fotfeste

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