Meanings of first foothold in English

Thus the Persian kings secured their first foothold upon the European continent.

Nodding, Alex looked down for his first foothold and reached for it.

Through an industrialist, I got my first foothold on a planet.

How did you get your first foothold in British acting?

A band of Danes keep the Isle of Sheppey through the winter; their first foothold in England.

Rome got her first foothold in Marseilles as a consequence of the Punic wars; and in 125 B.C.

Again, Italy had, in 1883, obtained her first foothold in Eritrea, on the shore of the Red Sea.

During the reign of Vladimir, a descendant of Ruric, the Christian religion gained its first foothold in Russia.

And thus what price a few lives against thwarting the crucial first foothold towards establishing Hell on Earth?

It got its first foothold in office last December, winning 12 parliamentary seats in a regional election in Andalusia.

An acquisition of the Pampo and Enchova clusters in Brazil's Campos Basin would mark its first foothold outside of Africa.

Was there not something rotten in all English palisades, it would never have happened that the pirates got their first foothold.

Jarvo, leading the way, sprang immediately upon the first foothold, where none seemed to be, and without pause to the next.

It was twenty feet to the first foothold on a decayed branch; yet there he was, and we saw him do it.

Junior Infants pupils putting down the first foothold on their first day at the country's newest school, Cherrywood Educate Together Primary School.

Serena nodded, her eyes rising beyond the tulip poplar to the ridge where crews had gained a first foothold above Henley Creek.