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"toehold" Definitions
  1. a position in a place or an activity that you hope will lead to more power or success
  2. a very small hole or space on a rock face, just big enough to put your foot in when you are climbing

282 Sentences With "toehold"

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Now continue on like that until you get your toehold.
"I still want a toehold in the city," she said.
Crowdfunding has also helped some women gain a toehold as entrepreneurs.
Some Taiwanese firms are quietly seeking a toehold in other countries.
This is done with help from what's known as a Toehold switch.
Being a reliable jump-shooter is a toehold, but he can't stop there.
It was then that it gained a toehold at public schools and universities.
"Symbolically, it was the last toehold for the Palestinians in Jerusalem," he said.
He dropped in rankings and slipped from his tentative toehold on elite status.
Amazon gets a low-cost toehold in a region that is hard to conquer.
"It's a toehold in an industry where they've got basically no density," he added.
They just need a viable toehold that they can grow into market share over time.
His photographs give the mind something to grab on to, a toehold in the vastness.
They are saddled with student loans, trying to get a toehold in rapidly contracting industries.
SATURDAY PUZZLE — A tough one to find a toehold in, but ultimately worth the challenge.
After establishing an ownership toehold, raiders pressure boards to favor their own interests over others.
It's no surprise that they're pulling back sharply, yet maintaining a toehold in the market.
He has a toehold in this world, while the rest of him shades into another.
When their era faded, more than one developer tried to get a toehold on Cumberland.
But this month in 1788, Russia's claim of a toehold in southern Alaska came peacefully.
Several less obscure Mediterranean grapes, like mourvèdre, cinsault and carignan, have also gained a toehold.
Of course, there are easier ones that might help you get a bit of a toehold.
Once you have that toehold, you can start to spread out, which is its own reward.
Its toehold in the Middle East is maintained, and its status on the global stage enhanced.
The deal gave the Dodgers a toehold in Los Angeles, expediting their move a year later.
But what about brand-new leagues trying to get a toehold in the crowded sports marketplace?
The species has now spread across much of Europe and gained a toehold on other continents.
It would also gain a toehold in major markets like Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.
Via Versace, the company is also hoping to gain a firmer toehold in Europe and Asia.
And as the past month shows, those activists have a toehold in the system they didn't before.
"A man who makes written promises [as Carson did] gives us a toehold on accountability," she wrote.
Stringent efforts are maintained to prevent zebra mussels, milfoil and other invasive species from gaining a toehold.
"I figured I'd be a tour guide until I got a toehold in the theater," he said.
The transfer business is less regulated, and it gives Ant a toehold in the developed U.S. market.
In the past, these companies have typically gone to great lengths to gain a toehold in China.
If you need a toehold, or just a little shove over the peak, now you can peek.
Thankfully, it seems to have gained a toehold within the most unlikely of places—the Trump administration.
If the virus gains a toehold there, it could spread from person to person all too easily.
The Cybertruck will give Tesla an opportunity to establish a toehold in the segment and build credibility.
Extreme parties like France's National Front or the United Kingdom Independence Party never established an American toehold.
The transfer business is less regulated, and it gives Ant a toehold in the developed American market.
If a player's "receipts" aren't on YouTube, he's liable to lose to his toehold in the historiography.
But it was that market — restaurant delivery in particular — in which Sahara had not yet found a toehold.
The deal will give Enlist - one of DowDuPont's biggest crop-system investments - a toehold in the U.S. market.
To get a toehold, Shopify has enabled 17 languages on its platform besides English, including several Asian ones.
Didi late last year bought Brazilian ride-hailing firm 99, giving the company its first toehold in Latin America.
If ONLY you had some ally in the U.S. senate, some tiny crevice where GOPs could get a toehold.
These established companies already have a toehold in commercial space, but also have much wider interests beyond that sector.
There are quite a few ways to gain that all-imPOrtant toehold in Ori Brian's and Zach Spitz's puzzle.
If America executes Baluchi, Pradhan believes, it will cede whatever eroding toehold it has on a moral high ground.
"Most" or "more" in a clue on Tuesday usually means a free EST or ER for your toehold collection.
Cyfuse is one of a growing number of tech start-ups trying to get a toehold in the global marketplace.
Once he had a toehold at Epic, Wheeler wanted a talented partner to help him sally deeper into the network.
Here's a hint for getting that all-important toehold in a puzzle: Start with the fill-in-the-blanks clues.
Its tremendous hardware outreach will play a major role in helping it gain a toehold — like Apple Music before it.
Proportional representation makes it possible for small parties to gain a toehold and build a presence in government over time.
After a quick submission win via an unorthodox inverted shoulder lock, the toehold specialist sat back down behind the turntables.
The PillPack deal will give Amazon a toehold in pharmaceuticals, an area that's proven resistant to low prices and disruption.
She visited all 99 of Iowa's counties, and spent much of her resources on building a toehold in the state.
Every time the hackers, believed to be Iranian, gained a toehold in one server, the defenders shut down their access.
Salesforce already had a toehold in Indianapolis with its 2000 acquisition of the software marketing company ExactTarget for $250 billion.
Today, the economic incentives that have helped electric vehicles gain a toehold in America are under attack, state by state.
In 2015, Leonard Green & Partners accumulated a stake in the company, a toehold failed to result in a deal despite speculation.
Michael Dukakis, can attest, simply "winning" a debate is not the same as gaining a meaningful toehold in a tough campaign.
The representation that DuVernay rightly champions has gotten a toehold, now that this kind of world-building is coming to multiplexes.
But in other states — where sports gambling is now legal — a casino toehold is a first step to a sports book.
Military and politically, Syria is its toehold for influence in the Middle East and, to a lesser degree, in the Mediterranean.
In the Senate, it would take a three-seat swing to give Democrats a toehold in this currently GOP-dominated state.
For the first puzzle, I wound up getting a toehold with UNBRIDLED, crossed with BLATHERS; for the second, it was CLAPBOARD.
One of the ways larger enterprises are keeping a toehold in the space is through backing and partnering with early-stage startups.
The world's top miners are increasingly investing in exploration companies early on, taking "toehold" minority stakes to boost their odds of success.
If you're just moving into midweek puzzles, there are a lot of places where you might be able to gain a toehold.
With a relatively small team, Ms. Wiles played a pivotal role in giving Mr. Trump a toehold with activists and party figures.
The company disclosed that it has acquired a "meaningful toehold position" in Aphria but did not reveal the size of the stake.
The first company to develop an effective vaccine will win a toehold in a market that could ultimately reap billions in profit.
And it would provide Altria a toehold on an e-cigarette maker whose name has become shorthand among younger customers for vaping.
Ted Cruz's seat in Texas last year, has struggled to gain a toehold in a field of about 20 presidential primary candidates.
And how is Jimmy going to get a toehold in a plot that, at least for now, seems to have sidelined him?
Qatar Airways may have sought to gain a toehold in the United States by buying a 10 percent stake in American Airlines.
It also feeds into Waymo's ultimate quest to gain a toehold in more markets for the eventual launch of a commercial business.
Forming a partnership with Tencent helps give Spotify an important step up in that regard, by giving it a toehold in China.
Still, it suggests that none of the more establishment-friendly candidates are gaining a toehold in the last days before the Iowa caucuses.
So it was decided that Cadolini would become an official breeder, and would help ensure the animals had toehold outside their native country.
Yes, Google and Amazon have plenty of money as well, but Apple has a deeper toehold on the music industry thanks to iTunes.
But there's one part of pop culture where product placement has by and large failed to get a toehold, and that's in books.
Despite being undermined by the Supreme Court, the Medicaid expansion has found a toehold in American politics, producing a powerful constituency for itself.
He wants Ant to get a toehold in the United States, and MoneyGram, based in Dallas, presents a manageable way to do so.
Although Trump has declared victory there, critics warn Islamic State still has a toehold, and could stage a comeback if U.S. forces depart.
The occasional foray into Labour heartlands will not bring the Conservatives any closer to a majority unless they can maintain a toehold in cities.
She ruled out that run, but was generally regarded as a "rising conservative star" with a toehold in one of the country's swing states.
The acrimonious trade secrets battle could determine the future of Uber's self-driving car operations and the strength of Waymo's toehold in the sector.
Like state renewable standards, the PTC has played a key role in helping the wind industry gain a toehold in the U.S. energy mix.
As he searches for a toehold in the Republican race, Mr. Kasich will deliver a speech on Tuesday about the "two paths" facing voters.
What's next: The Islamic State is currently focused on keeping a toehold in Iraq and Syria and embedding its supporters into local populations there.
Victory also was declared on Tuesday by supporters of a similar measure in Massachusetts, giving legalized recreational pot its first toehold in New England.
If you're at all new to this game (or even if you've been solving "Pandas" forever) start with the anagrams to get a toehold.
So that was kind of my toehold as a filmmaker: to understand that [Rogers's story] feels so simple but actually has so much complexity.
Bloomberg has established a toehold by spending more than $2016 million here and has more than 226 staffers and three offices across the state.
Food exposure triggers the recruitment of eosinophils to the gut, but once they have a toehold, repeated exposure isn't necessary to keep them there.
Although many Venezuelan parents entrust their children to relatives and send for them once they have a toehold abroad, Rodriguez said she couldn't risk it.
Again, the market for pay-to-view projects featuring older stars has found a significant toehold, basically as counter-programming in a fragmented media marketplace.
The move by Dakang, worth $2.9 billion by market value, would give a first toehold in Australia, though it already owns land in New Zealand.
The popularity of easier-to-construct, lower-price bralettes has made it possible for less technically savvy brands to grab a toehold in the space.
Firms with a toehold in many places and sectors, like Dangote Group or Shoprite, are less exposed to a setback in any one of them.
But, she added, foreigners eager for a toehold in the city, and young people unsaddled with any preconceived ideas about the area, will likely flock.
American tech and media companies (Facebook, Google) have huge offices there, and it's an English-speaking toehold for American firms doing business on the continent.
New Zealand investigates how the massacre could have been avoided, China gets a toehold in Europe and Apple prepares to unveil its next big thing.
International students typically pay more than domestic students, and many, particularly from China, come from affluent families eager to establish a toehold in North America.
Green Growth had also disclosed at the time that it acquired a "meaningful toehold position" in Aphria, but did not reveal the size of the stake.
When the natural RNA and the RNA of the Toehold switch meet, the switch's RNA becomes exposed and the cell starts kicking out the prescribed protein.
" For whatever reason, several of those shows have found a toehold in recent years playing during the summer, including TNT's "Falling Skies" and "The Last Ship.
Generations of transplants to Alaska, and 10,13 years of Native Alaskan inhabitants before them, have struggled mightily to gain a toehold at this edge of civilization.
Researchers had long predicted that the Zika virus would gain a toehold in the continental United States, most likely in Florida and along the Gulf Coast.
It is not uncommon for private equity firms to do so-called "toehold investments" for reasons that include long-term investing and getting to know management.
Its imprints, which publish around 500 books a year, will give Hachette a stronger toehold in the nonfiction market and add to its overall market share.
Over all, experts said, Russia has been able to obtain a toehold in the influence game because it is addressing angry populations alienated by current governments.
But a Johannesburg residency and an international art fair opening in Brooklyn next week aim to help some young women get a toehold on the ladder.
This, in turn, will allow Putin to cement a toehold in the eastern Mediterranean, where the American Sixth fleet based in Naples has long held sway.
This is bad news for young people who are trying to get a toehold in the labor force while also putting a roof over their heads.
Huawei and Chinese telecom firms have long struggled to gain a toehold in the U.S. market, partly because of U.S. government pressure on potential U.S. partners.
Last year, Constellation bought an approximately 38 percent stake in the Canadian marijuana company, giving the beverage company a firm toehold in the rapidly growing cannabis industry.
Democrats have held firm in states such as New Hampshire, Missouri, Kentucky and Iowa, where the party maintained enough of a toehold to block anti-union measures.
The mutation made it possible for the creature to clone itself, and now it has spread across much of Europe and gained a toehold on other continents.
So today, to do that, the company is updating its apps with a few new features that should help it continue to have a toehold within larger companies.
Over the same period, as streaming services have replaced network and cable television, subtitles have also gained a stronger toehold on smaller screens, from cellphones to TV sets.
In Syria, Russia saw a last toehold of Kremlin influence threatened in the Middle East and ruthlessly moved to ensure its long-time government ally did not fall.
Rebels allied with jihadist groups on Sunday tried to expand their toehold of territory on the southwestern outskirts, which they captured in a Friday offensive against the regime.
Caixa's divestitures may for the first time give the bank a toehold in Brazil's investment banking league table, a ranking of advisers on M&A and equity deals.
Some investors may relocate to continental Europe from the United Kingdom, while others only in continental Europe may be seeking a toehold in the post-Brexit U.K. market.
If protesters take control of government buildings, the Kremlin would leverage that toehold to erode consensus around NATO's collective defense protections for the Baltic and Eastern European states.
In the meantime, the class of 2016, like many before it, will graduate into a tough economy in which even the college educated are not assured a toehold.
By maintaining a small toehold in Maine's individual health plan market, Anthem will keep open the option of returning to that market on a wide scale in 2019.
The mashup of automotive and technology companies at CES in recent years means companies like Vulog have a chance at finding a toehold in the US market here.
The militants have even on occasion struck back with some of their former vigor from their toehold, around the Syrian town of Hajin in Deir al-Zour Province.
Tens of thousands of ISIS supporters — including fighters and their wives and children — poured into the desert in the final weeks before the group's last toehold was liberated.
It is also well filled, for the most part, and while it is easy to get a toehold, there are areas that fought me for a long time.
The internationally backed Libyan government the European Union is dealing with has barely a toehold in the fragmented, violence-plagued country, and may even be verging on collapse.
The two countries held joint military exercises as recently as three months ago, a move that angered Washington fearful of Moscow gaining a strategic toehold in South America.
But Mayo added, "In our view this is not a PR move by Goldman, it's a business where they're taking a toehold to create optionality for potential future directions."
But in the context of a national map that now glows mostly orange from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean, that looks more like a toehold than a springboard.
Huawei's had a rough go of it here in the States, after concerns around ties to the Chinese government have left the company scrambling to gain a commercial toehold.
A banking transaction that ultimately passes through New York—as many do, given the centrality of American dollars to global trade—can give prosecutors a toehold to inspect it.
U.K. businesses are nonetheless keen to cash in on China's growing consumer class among its 1.3 billion population but, aside from exports, their toehold within China itself remains small.
Still, now that people live in social streams, and advertisers are desperate to get a toehold inside them, the practice is likely to continue to draw attention and dollars.
The question remains, though, whether CL will be able to get more than a toehold in the culture—and what she might have to give up to do it.
President Donald Trump heads to New Hampshire on Thursday to gain a toehold in a state he barely lost in 2016 — and an old friend plans to come along.
Also, through WhiteWave's ownership of the Silk brand of soy and nut milks, the purchase will give Danone a toehold in the flourishing market for plant-based dairy substitutes.
As the South industrialized in the second half of the 20th century, poor Alabamians who once toiled on farms were able to secure a toehold in the middle class.
I loved C. S. Lewis as a kid, so I thought I'd have a toehold in that world, but invariably I'd get about two paragraphs in and fall asleep.
We, too, believe that our children are able to make good choices in their lives, yet the economy is preventing them from even gaining a toehold in financial stability.
Mr. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are the latest of the tech titans to establish a toehold here, buying 700 acres on Kauai for a reported $100 million.
"The Chemist" is an even bigger leap, as Ms. Meyer tries to gain a toehold in a genre dominated by brand-name authors like Lee Child and Daniel Silva.
The Pentagon is likewise raising alarms about China's Arctic ambitions, warning in a recent report that Beijing could use the cover of science to plant a military toehold there.
The deal included the option for future investments, giving Constellation a first toehold in an industry the brewer said it expects to soon be legalized across the United States.
As soon as you realize that you are having a hard time establishing any kind of a toehold in the puzzle, stop what you're doing and take a deep breath.
Belize Bank has cleared some U.S. dollar transactions and maintained a toehold in the United States by using a bank in Turkey, and previously used a Chinese bank, Alario said.
Separately, workers at VW's Chattanooga, Tennessee, assembly plant have been voting this week on whether to unionize, potentially handing the United Auto Workers its first toehold in the U.S. South.
For KPMG, the inquiry into the tax agency was a lucrative and prestigious contract, bringing in about $2 million and giving the firm a toehold on future work in government.
And by using her gender to find a toehold in the Democratic electorate, Ms. Gillibrand risks pigeonholing herself in a race where voters may be seeking a broader populist message.
"Oracle has a toehold in China, and given the noise, that's a smart move for them to take a step away," said Dan Ives, managing director and technology analyst at Wedbush.
Work on expanding your toehold, stopping to appreciate the wordplay in a clue like "Carol king," which does not use a capital K and therefore is not about the folk singer.
With a general election due in the spring, and Congress's toehold having shrunk to just three of India's 29 states, Mr Modi looked set to waltz into another five-year term.
RISING IN RANKING Caixa's divestitures may for the first time give the bank a toehold in Brazil's investment banking league table, a ranking of advisers on M&A and equity deals.
Perry works his way up through the ranks and participates in a number of battles against a variety of alien races, as humanity works to establish a toehold in the galaxy.
Another toehold for Germany's far-right Germany's right-wing nationalist party, Alternative für Deutschland, won a little over 7% of Sunday's vote and will therefore have representation in the NRW parliament.
In 2015, private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners built a stake in the company, a toehold that did not ultimately lead to a deal, despite some investor expectations that it would.
And this, in turn, will further Amazon's toehold in the voice computing market, where companies like Google and Apple are now playing catch-up, with the Google Home and HomePod, respectively.
But what policymakers should not do is overreact to an incident of foreign interference in U.S. elections by allowing Europe's anti-innovation privacy laws to gain a toehold on U.S. soil.
Instead, it is a drought of jobs that pay anywhere near the $23.83 an hour he makes at Carrier, let alone enough to give him a toehold in the middle class.
Despite the submission savvy Holbrook displayed in the second, Matthews took him down where he found himself in more trouble, with Holbrook looking close to finishing a toehold at one point.
Or rather, it has regressed to much more measured baby steps, focusing on a toehold it should have played into in the first place: Chinese-speaking households here in the States.
Today, Syria remains one of Russia's few reliable allies outside of the former Soviet republics, a vestige of Moscow's former superpower status and a final military toehold in the Middle East.
Their long decline in statehouses, after big losses in 20203 and 2014, continued, as Democrats lost their last toehold in the South: Republicans captured control of the Kentucky House of Representatives.
Ruthie, separated from her husband, is scrabbling to keep her toehold in the middle class after being forced out of her job at a local museum by a conniving board member.
The N.B.A. is already awash with a gushing stream of revenue, and the Rockets are in the country's fourth-most populated city and have a huge toehold in China, as well.
Personally, I don't know any Dutch bartenders, but I managed to get a toehold in the southeast vicinity by trying I FEEL LOVE, one of my favorite disco tracks, at 31D.
China may well "agree" to lower tariffs on certain American imports, but secretly erect non-tariff barriers to keep those same imports from gaining more than a toehold in the Chinese market.
Government stewardship has been crucial to helping nascent clean energy industries gain a toehold in markets dominated by fossil fuels—from power transmission and transportation to the heating and cooling of buildings.
The rest of the Democratic field is a mix of seasoned politicians, wealthy business people and others still looking to break into or regain their toehold in the top tier of contenders.
In September, it opened a $145 million hospital an hour up the highway in Santa Fe, which many see as unneeded additional infrastructure but the requisite toehold for entering that new market.
The rest of the Democratic field is a mix of seasoned politicians, wealthy business people and others still looking to break into or regain their toehold in the top tier of contenders.
Companies like Tesla, Duracell, and the German energy storage firm Sonnen are already sending battery and solar supplies to Puerto Rico, building a toehold in what may be a lucrative rebuilding project.
But these days, Mr. de León is struggling for a toehold as he tries to negotiate the fraught and complicated terrain of trying to topple someone widely seen as a California institution.
The nice thing about a puzzle like this is that it is crammed with factoids and topics from all over, just so solvers can get a toehold somewhere, anywhere in the grid.
Whether it's getting a toehold in mortgages, developing new hedging strategies or simply trying to generate outperformance, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink believes growth of the funds could be in its early stages.
Philip Morris International is fighting to keep a toehold in India's $2200 billion tobacco market, as the government considers further tightening foreign investment rules in the sector, according to documents seen by Reuters.
Philip Morris International is fighting to keep a toehold in India's $280 billion tobacco market, as the government considers further tightening foreign investment rules in the sector, according to documents seen by Reuters.
" In the case of the opioid crisis in the US, though, she claims it "began in exactly the opposite manner, grabbing a toehold in isolated Appalachia, Midwestern rust belt counties, and rural Maine.
I gained a toehold in this puzzle thanks to KIT KATs, Tabula RASA, TERIS, WEST END, NEVADA, AMOEBA (because who doesn't love a good cellular math joke?), CESAR and RHONDA, help help me.
Petrobras will maintain a 50 percent stake and the operation of the fields, while Petronas will get a bigger toehold in oil production in Brazil, where it already operates in the lubricants segment.
The first place I got a toehold on this was on the left-hand side, where we were lucky enough to have two answers in close enough proximity to give away the game.
In ranked-choice and approval voting systems, you can express support for more than one person, which can be a good way for third-party candidates and independent candidates to get a toehold.
Some opera fans and singers, perhaps feeling beleaguered at a moment when the art form is struggling to get a toehold in popular culture, saw it as a public slap in the face.
After making two straight English-language films didn't quite give him a toehold in Hollywood, Bong returned to Korea for "Parasite," which, in a Bong-like twist, has catapulted him to mainstream recognition.
Garrett Johnson, cofounder of Lincoln Network, a right-leaning policy group based in San Francisco, says tech companies are scrambling to find a toehold after years of failing to cultivate deep relationships with conservatives.
Though much has changed in the past week, far more is unchanged: The war is not over, ISIS is not defeated, Iran is not deterred and Russia is expanding its toehold into a foothold.
That vote failed, but the union was able to get a toehold in the plant in late 2015 when around 165 skilled trades workers voted to become the first members of UAW Local 42.
The women, typically in their early or mid-20s and hoping to get a toehold in the film industry, said he could switch course quickly—meetings and clipboards one moment, intimate comments the next.
They were Lithuanian, and he grew up as a first-generation immigrant, but he was the kind of immigrant who never succeeded in this country—he never got a toehold in his new home.
The women, typically in their early or middle 20s and hoping to get a toehold in the film industry, said he could switch course quickly — meetings and clipboards one moment, intimate comments the next.
But the recent history of college football shows that L.S.U., which began this season as an underdog even within its own division, faces a mighty challenge in keeping its toehold at the very top.
Some have signed players who are experts in games that have nothing to do with soccer, an effort by the clubs to stake out a toehold in the roughly $20143 billion e-sports marketplace.
I've had a toehold in this world for quite a while, and mostly, I have to be perfectly honest, I'm so hyper-focused on feeling lots of gratitude and happiness for our nominations today.
There were a substantial number of gimmes to help with my toehold, though, and before I knew it, the entries were connecting to each other and I was on my way to completing the puzzle.
Despite the fact that Smith Friedman broke the Nazi spy ring in South America—arguably preventing Hitler from gaining a toehold in the region—Hoover manipulated the press to claim her victory as his own.
Huang struck out on his own in China, founding an ecommerce consumer electronics site called Ouku, then sold it and started a marketing firm for foreign brands angling for a toehold on Chinese ecommerce platforms.
Ever since the coronavirus gained a toehold on these shores, freaked-out Americans have been watching Steven Soderbergh's 2011 movie Contagion, about the race to stop a mysterious, rapidly spreading disease that emerges from China.
Beyond Burgers are available at Veggie Grill, a small West Coast vegetarian chain, but gaining a toehold in a large burger business has long been a goal for Ethan Brown, a founder of Beyond Meat.
U.S. Special Forces are operating in Libya as well as other locations across the Middle East and North Africa to try and prevent ISIS as well as al Qaeda and its affiliates from developing a toehold.
However, while the TV still has a strong toehold for now in terms of total minutes spent viewing, when you delve into the data from other angles, you can see where the smartphone is gaining ground.
This year, two other schools with long track records, the Atlantic Acting School and the T. Schreiber Studio, have made significant compromises in order to keep a toehold in Chelsea, the Manhattan neighborhood they helped gentrify.
To get a toehold, I usually look for short words with odd letters that lend themselves to mild risk taking: AJAX/HOAX comes to mind, as does SEIZE/SERGE, SAMBA/SAUNA, MECCA/MEDIA, and ACHE/ACID.
"If you're in a place like San Francisco or San Jose, you probably have at least a toehold — you're probably making a good bit of money, you're probably able to pay down your debt," she says.
Until now, pro-democracy candidates had never held more than a toehold in the district, but the protest movement has made "many people in North Point awake", said Cheng, who is studying to become a barrister.
On the one hand, you will silently pray for mercy, because finding that elusive toehold will be much harder and, on the other hand, you will also want that Saturday struggle you'd heard so much about.
After all, the Liberal Democrats have 100,000 members, 98 seats in the House of Lords and, crucially, a toehold in Britain's ruthless first-past-the-post electoral system, which new parties find all but impossible to crack.
India, which opposes the economic corridor as it gives China a maritime toehold on its western flank and passes through Pakistan-administered Kashmir that India claims as its own territory, has recently upped the ante on Baluchistan.
Islamic State is also likely to increase its toehold in the Puntland region of Somalia, impacting the civilian population and clashing with its bigger regional rival Al Shabaab, which will increase the lethality of its own attacks.
Area 1's technology addresses one of the most pernicious digital threats: so-called spear-phishing attacks, which bait unsuspecting workers into clicking on links in emails and unknowingly giving attackers a toehold in their employers' systems.
Innoviz, a developer of light-detection and ranging technologies for computer vision and autonomous vehicles, is getting a toehold in China, the world's fastest growing auto market, through a partnership with the Chinese automotive supplier HiRain Technologies.
The region has been a rare Democratic stronghold on an electoral map now dominated by vast swaths of red, and Republicans' only toehold on power there has been a one-seat majority in the Washington State Senate.
Growing immunity in the community also is the way the epidemic ends: With fewer and fewer people to infect, the coronavirus will lose its toehold and even the most vulnerable citizens become more insulated from the threat.
More long term, Nathan also says the military has a number of research centers around the world that specialize in disease surveillance "before they can get a toehold on our troops," including in Egypt, Peru and Singapore.
For Sirius XM — part of the constellation of companies controlled by Liberty Media — the new stake in Pandora will give it an important toehold in a number of businesses, including ad-supported radio and particularly internet radio.
"The HBGI highlights the ongoing challenge of housing supply, particularly for younger households seeking affordable rental housing or attempting to gain a toehold on the homeownership ladder," said NAHB Chairman Greg Ugalde, a homebuilder from Torrington, Connecticut.
Many birds are known to feed on nightshade berries without any ill effects, and once the plant gained a toehold in the New World, it spread through their stomachs to a wide variety of suitable natural areas.
With only a toehold in the private sector—where they cover a mere 7% of workers—unions have become increasingly reliant on faithful public-sector employees, 34% of whom are members, to stay financially afloat and politically relevant.
That earlier episode was just a foretaste of how the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has been using its toehold in Parliament — where it now has the megaphone of being the leading opposition party — to reorder German politics.
The discovery of the book in the spring of 2018 was among a number of clues indicating that the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, was trying to establish a toehold in the lawless jungles of eastern Congo.
As a sport, skiing is struggling to maintain a toehold, with the number of skiers falling to 223 million in 433-23 from 229 million 259 years ago, according to a survey from the National Ski Area Association.
Supporters of the guild in the labor movement say such concessions from Uber may be crucial to winning a toehold in a sector where rich, powerful companies, a dispersed worker population, and high turnover make organizing extremely difficult.
Ireland is trying to woo companies with the offer of a contracting entity, a legal toehold on the island that could be expanded when Britain leaves the EU, allowing them to keep the same access to the European market.
Though "Generation Z," as a moniker, has gained a toehold in the public consciousness, this fledgling cohort, whose birth-range most experts place between 1995 and 2005, is so green that its very name is still up for grabs.
Also, French teams still have to gain a toehold in markets in Asia and the United States, where top clubs from other European leagues have marketed themselves for decades, said Edward Blackmore, who runs OGC Capital, a sports consultancy.
But it's notable that Netflix established its toehold in the original content game with shows made by established TV talent who really knew how the medium functioned, like Orange Is the New Black, BoJack Horseman, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
For China, having a toehold in one of Europe's historic ports would bring favorable customs conditions, a faster trade route to the heart of the Continent and direct access to railroads for moving its goods into the European Union.
The assets, which could give the Chinese automaker a toehold in the Indian car market, will be acquired via an Indian subsidiary of SAIC that is yet to be incorporated, according to the filing with the Competition Commission of India.
MEXICO CITY, April 26 (Reuters) - Online marketplace MercadoLibre said on Thursday that it will invest $275 million in logistics, shipping and marketing in Mexico, aiming for a stronger toehold in Latin America's second-largest economy as its rivalry with Amazon.
That impressive accomplishment notwithstanding, this is still a small industry in Europe, and it'll be a long time—if ever—before wind power solves our energy woes (particularly in the US, where the industry is just starting to gain a toehold).
But that toehold is tenuous, as the German automaker has refused to acknowledge the result, arguing against allowing a small group within the plant to have union representation and saying that all 1,500 hourly workers should be treated as one unit.
One of Putin's principal reasons for backing Assad's alleged attacks on the rebellion that has challenged him is to maintain this single toehold in the Mediterranean -- central to the strategic position of NATO and America in Europe and the Middle East.
Despite fears the situation would descend into war, the two sides de-escalated after Israel enforced an adjustment to the algorithm, namely that it would not allow Iran or affiliated forces to gain another toehold along Israel's border with Syria.
Since 2013, partly because of aggressive recruiting by M.L.S., a core group of national team players who had established a toehold in Europe — players like Michael Bradley and Clint Dempsey, and later Jozy Altidore and Alejandro Bedoya — has migrated home.
Generally the easiest type of clue because your brain loves filling in missing information, even the fill-in-the-blanks are tougher on a Saturday, but they can also provide us with a much-needed toehold in an otherwise impenetrable puzzle.
While I agree that these particular ideas are better, that's not why they have gained a toehold in a court that not too many years ago was being described as the most conservative Supreme Court in modern United States history.
Notwithstanding concerns from lawmakers about Libra's potential impact on US national sovereignty, doubling down into financial-related products gives Facebook a toehold in a space that is less politically sensitive than ads have proved to be over the past few years.
When a flood of Ph.D.s desperate to keep a toehold in academia depresses adjunct wages, that makes it cheaper for universities to hire them to teach classes and free up time for tenured researchers to do what they enjoy: conduct research.
The law's supporters say it will be most helpful for people hoping to get a toehold in the food business — especially women, people of color and immigrants, many of whom can use social media as a way to connect with customers.
But he was all-purpose: the craggy face leathery from sun, wind and snow; powerful hands scarred with cuts; flyaway hair crushed under a woolen cap; keen eyes for the next toehold; and a toothy smile for the book signings.
In their telling, she used gun rights — Ms. Butina had started a pro-gun group in Russia — to gain a toehold in American conservative circles, and then struck up a romance with a far older Republican operative to open doors further.
Party, and began dispatching emails with malicious links and fake login pages designed to bait campaign staffers into divulging their usernames and passwords, or to click on a link that would give the Russians a toehold onto the campaign's network.
Of course, some of the job postings listed, which were highlighted this weekend by Road to VR, involve Google Cardboard, the low-cost VR device that a number of companies are using to gain an early toehold in the burgeoning VR space.
In sum, the combination of entrepreneurs, technology, funding, and a race to grab a toehold in major urban centers all converged earlier this year, leading to a sudden crop of scooters starting on the West Coast in March and rippling throughout the country.
But increased privacy and monopoly concerns in the last year have led Google's critics in academia and public policy to call on antitrust regulators to split Google's advertising business, which has a strong toehold on nearly each link of the industry's supply chain.
The United Nations aims to stage a conference in the southwestern town of Ghadames on April 14-16 to weigh elections as a way out of the country's prolonged factional anarchy, which has seen Islamist militants establish a toehold in some areas.
Bafel Talabani said the base deal would have given Mr. Abadi a political win amid the nationalist fervor in Baghdad, as well as allow Kurds to keep a toehold in what to many leaders is an essential piece to their independence plans.
That means increased emphasis on Super Tuesday primaries March 20203, when 40% of delegates are up for grabs, and not necessarily on the earliest nominating states, Iowa and New Hampshire, where campaigns usually seek to grab an early toehold in presidential races.
Sending terrorists through the migrant routes from Turkey to Greece is becoming too hard, so ISIS is now actively working to smuggle its folks into Europe via a Mediterranean Sea route that starts in the failed state of Libya, where ISIS has gained a toehold.
American employers have no use for the children of migrant women who so often care for America's own, and indeed migrant women's children have been stigmatized for years as "anchor babies," born on American soil to presumably give their parents a toehold in the States.
Gaining a toehold in the American investment world means firms like HNA and SoftBank have access to information that would otherwise be out of their reach, according to Ted J. Gooden, a managing director at Berkshire Capital who specializes in the sale of investment firms.
ViacomCBS also has a small toehold in streaming services with CBS All Access and Showtime, which together have more than eight million subscribers and feature originals such as the reboot of "Twilight Zone" and "Star Trek: Picard," which is scheduled to have a January debut.
Bringing on Sayegh would give Kushner a toehold in both the White House press and communications shops, new areas of influence for him in two departments Trump allies have long criticized for often not living up to the president's expectations or properly defending the president.
The royal families of this period of Old Testament history were not the most lovable.) 280A: You might not know that VERDI means "green" in Italian, but there are so many cognates (including "green" in other languages and "verdant" in English) that this could be a toehold.
Sarah Huckabee, the daughter of Mike Huckabee — the former governor of Arkansas and two-time presidential candidate — joined Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign this week as a senior adviser, giving Mr. Trump a toehold in Arkansas, one of 12 states that are holding nominating contests on Super Tuesday.
For the formal induction of Montenegro into NATO's ranks at a June 5 ceremony will mean the alliance now controls the entire strategic Adriatic coast of the Mediterranean, where Russia is struggling to maintain a final toehold from its sprawling air and naval facility in Bashar al-Assad's Syria.
The September 2017 agreement between Japan and India for the bullet train project included two clauses - the promotion of 'Make in India' and 'Transfer of Technology' - through which New Delhi had hoped to set up manufacturing facilities in the country, generate jobs and get a toehold in Japanese technology.
"Once we had worked out how to use Toehold Switches and RNA molecules to encode the basic logic operations―AND, OR, and NOT, we were able to condense this functionality within a carefully designed molecule that we call a gate RNA," study co-author Alexander Green explained in a statement.
This is a big step forward for LG that - despite being the world's top LCD maker for televisions and the leader in large OLED TV screens - continues to struggle to get a toehold in the market for OLED smartphone screens, where a unit of Samsung Electronics holds a 13 percent share.
In the biggest and most complicated amphibious operation in military history, it wasn't bombs, artillery or tanks that overwhelmed the Germans; it was men — many of them boys, really — slogging up the beaches and crawling over the corpses of their friends that won the Allies a toehold at the western edge of Europe.
It also provides a showcase for performers who are established overseas and now seeking a United States toehold — although this year, some performers were turned back at the last minute, in a shift of immigration enforcement that could have long-term implications for both the festival and bands hoping to reach American audiences.
It takes vaccination rates as high as 95 percent to create what's known as herd immunity, the protection afforded to people who can't be vaccinated—including infants, the very old and people with compromised immune systems—by all of the other people in the community who can be, thus denying the disease any infectious toehold.
If they regain a toehold of power in Austin, and can prevent Republicans from having total control over gerrymandering, Democrats could turn Texas blue in a hurry; if not, it'll probably be a more gradual process over the next decade, with strict voter ID and other forms of suppression still intact, and districts artificially tilted in Republicans' favor.
"We still have U.S. interests in the region, and losing our toehold there — no matter how slim it may be now — will prevent us, in the future, from steering things in a better way for us and for Lebanon," said David Daoud, a Hezbollah analyst at United Against Nuclear Iran, which advocates tougher United States policies on Iran.
Of course the president and his allies know that's exactly the public conversation that the Republicans fear, because it was clear from the first moment that any Obama nominee would inhabit the constitutional mainstream much more securely than either Judge Bork or Justice Scalia — whose "originalist" philosophy never gained more than a toehold at the court — ever did.
Even removing foreign policy from the equation, there is plenty to critique Putin on when it comes to his governance of his own country, from the way he's turned it into a de facto authoritarian dictatorship to the aforementioned problems with LGBTQ rights to the complete inability of opposition parties to gain a toehold against him.
Anything that improves conditions for mosquitoes tips the scales for the diseases they carry as well: the West Nile virus that flattened Dallas, the dengue that returned to Florida in 2009 after 63 years and the newest arrival, Zika, which gained a toehold in the United States last year and is expected to surge this summer.
The fresh defeat comes at a pivotal time for the UAW, which has been struggling to move beyond a federal corruption probe and faces contentious contract talks this year with General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV. The loss also raises renewed questions about whether the UAW can gain a toehold in the U.S. South and organize workers at a foreign automaker.
Neither the Rift or the Vive ecosystems produced a killer app that was big enough to push VR out of the margins, especially given the high cost of a headset and gaming PC. While 43-degree video has at least gotten a toehold in popular culture, the dream of sophisticated VR gaming — which arguably resurrected virtual reality in the first place — remains far away for most people.
The timing of the book tour and media blitz gives Harris — a first-term Democrat who still lacks the name recognition of some of her would-be competitors despite cutting a high-profile during the Supreme Court nomination hearings of Brett Kavanaugh — the opportunity to get a toehold in the news cycle while preserving some intrigue for a formal campaign launch in the near future.
And while it's undoubtedly true that rampant overdevelopment and real estate speculation are making it hard for everyone but the very rich to get a toehold here, what draws us relative newcomers to Brooklyn aren't just "the fixed-gear, fair-traded and cruelty-free" signifiers he sneers at — that may be what's sold as BrooklynTM, but it's not what makes people decide where to build their actual lives.
In that regard, the HBO show -- which returns for its third and final season beginning April 16 -- has become emblematic of a subgenre that has gained a growing toehold, one that New York Times critic James Poniewozik recently dubbed "surreality TV." The basic formula is a program that dares to be impenetrable for many, while presenting an enigmatic mystery, complete with a trail of bread crumbs, designed to dazzle the few, including the critical establishment.
It all seems like a bit of a swan song for Oculus, which despite gaining an early toehold on the mobile platform, was always facing an uphill battle given the amount of system-level integration needed to ready smartphone manufacturers for VR. With the VR mode in Android Nougat, Google has pretty much dropped a blanket upgrade to Android devices so that low-latency VR can be a reality across manufacturers for devices with low persistence displays.

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