Toeholds

For weeks rebels had been bottled up in Misrata, one of a handful of toeholds they hold in western Libya. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Two first novels—two portraits of estranged young Americans who have fled their small hometowns for cosmopolitan cities and now feel alone and adrift as they cast about for the narrowest toeholds of belief and self-knowledge. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

Asking prices for acquisition candidates in emerging markets are "stratospherically high," he said, but there may be opportunities to buy Western companies with toeholds in those markets. ❋ James R. Hagerty (2011)

Scotiabank, the only Canadian lender aggressively pursuing banking toeholds abroad, mainly in Asia and Latin America, said acquisitions accounted for more than half of the increase in its expenses. ❋ Caroline Van Hasselt (2011)

Sany and some of those other Chinese companies now are seeking toeholds in the U.S. and European markets. ❋ James R. Hagerty (2011)

After a bit of shifting, he was able to pull his arms out of the snow, then free his lower body through a combination of pushing with his arms and creating toeholds with his feet. ❋ James Riley (2010)

It would be just like walking down a wall, he told himself, one hand after the other, supported by the toeholds of his feet, using his shifting weight and the vacuum created in his palms to keep himself attached to the surface. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She surmised the rock face of the cliff in front of her and decided she could make a go of it, finding toeholds, handholds, pulling herself up to a little platform impressively high above the ground. ❋ Zoe Zolbrod (2010)

His feet scrabbled for purchase, and a moment later, he found toeholds in the chain link. ❋ ROBIN WASSERMAN (2009)

With those toeholds in actuality, Carver wove a story that distills his doubts and fears about parenthood. ❋ Carol Sklenicka (2009)

I imagine your reaction is very much the way my mother felt when the first toeholds of Alzheimers appeared. ❋ Unknown (2007)

These fragile toeholds of progressive hosts in the corporate world have proved helpful in challenging some of the disinformation that the Republicans have hurled against President Obama's health-care reform. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On Sunday, climbers half-carried them down the slick Western Cwm; on the rock faces, they fashioned rope slings for Weathers's elbows and guided his boots into toeholds, because frostbite had left him with no feeling in his fingers or toes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

On the one hand there are already some toeholds on the land; there are those farmers already there who have the right philosophy; there is still time, since we have not yet a socialist government or nationalization of the land. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Barfly] 1: Hey I heard you went on another date with your girlfriend last night. Barfly 2: Hell yeah, I had to put the old [stepover toehold] on her. I heard she's done [skipped] town I ain't seen her since. ❋ Rocky Skyline (2009)