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Перевод: foothold

[существительное]
опора для ног; плацдарм ; опорный пункт; точка опоры; прочное положение

Тезаурус:

1. The government thus gained a new foothold on power relatively painlessly, apart perhaps from the consultations between Denis Healey and the Liberals' economic spokesman, John Pardoe, two combustible personalities whose stormy meetings (or shouting matches) provided amusement and entertainment throughout Whitehall.
2. When he died in 1958 Jack, by then impoverished and attempting to gain a foothold in an acting career in California, did not fly east for the funeral.
3. Early evidence of GP fundholding shows "clear evidence of benefits", according to A Foothold for Funding, a research report by Professor Howard Glennerster and colleagues at the London School of Economics.
4. Deloitte predicts that European groups - many of which have far greater financial fire-power than the relatively small British television contractors - will be ready to pay substantial premiums to gain a foothold in the UK market.
5. The resulting at-seat light refreshment services provided an ideal foothold for the private operators whose involvement in railway catering the government was urging.
6. When Mr James Baker, the American Secretary of State, met opposition leaders in Tashkent in February, Mr Pulatov urged him to establish diplomatic relations to enable the United States to monitor human rights and give democracy a foothold.
7. "Help, this is one way irreversible layaways finger tips wrong way," I shuffled and chalked, "bloody hell that foothold's too far away, way, way done it."
8. But Yusuf could no longer allow the continuance of El Cid's foothold in the east.
9. Creeping thistle, haunt of the charming meadow brown butterfly, can become a real pest if it gets a foothold.
10. In 1961 he formed a link-up between Bryanston and an American company, Seven Arts, designed to build a US foothold and enable Bryanston to finance more ambitious projects.
11. Preparation of the food "on shore" now offered private contractors a foothold in the core of the business, and this in turn led in 1987 to the highly symbolic step of privatising the railway sandwich.
12. Hand-weeding prevents perennial weeds from gaining a foothold
13. Since the 1950s and the failure of the APL to gain a foothold in Belfast, the Nationalist Party had been mainly a rural phenomenon.