Last year, Norilsk bought U.S.-based Stillwater Mining to gain a toehold in North America.
When other joint projects failed, this toehold on a better future for the two Koreas remained.
EDF, the state-owned energy giant, as a way of getting a toehold in the French market.
Constrained by weakness at home and in Europe, even small companies are seeking a toehold in emerging markets.
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In the auto industry the union has been unable to get a toehold in the plants of foreign automakers.
It's possible the virus would not have gained a toehold if the patients had been treated with Tysabri alone.
Establishing a toehold in China will also create opportunities to push Carlson's loyalty and "customer motivation" businesses, which target minutely.
They are expected to be thinner, lighter and more refined versions of gadgets that have already gained a toehold with consumers.
The deal gives Nextlink a toehold in Europe, high-speed data lines, web-hosting and e-commerce services and the right to haul traffic for Internet service providers.
Such businesses, with their built-in connection to the Hispanic consumer, are serious competition to many industries looking for a toehold into the market.
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One day he stumbled upon a Donna Karan show at Neiman Marcus and decided that a toehold in New York was his ultimate goal.
But Beijing and Chinese businesses have been aggressively courting the council's Nordic members in a bid, analysts say, to get a toehold in the Arctic.
We do not want racism and fascism getting a toehold in Britain, that's why, at the earliest opportunity, we want to see those councillors out.
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With this toehold established, the British then took a firmer grip on the area, developing a system of indirect rule that has hardly changed since.
If Amazon can figure out more ways to capitalize on its toehold position in the digital music business, Amazon MP3 might be around for quite a while.
On the other side of the deal are buyers scouring for fixer-uppers to flip into revenue streams or first-timers looking for a turnkey toehold into the mobile space.
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First, the company's insolvency heralds a shake-up in the European media industry, with politically-inclined magnates such as Rupert Murdoch and Silvio Berlusconi likely to gain a toehold in the continent's biggest market.
Today Mr Putin sees a much more expansive role for Russia and he sees his toehold in Syria on the coast at Tartus as providing the basis for a more significant foothold in the region.
With large manufacturers like Samsung and Sony now making a play for the space (not to mention Apple and Google, which have both been trying to gain a toehold in the field), expect the war for the living room to heat up this year.
It rolled out a Super Bowl commercial for the first time, and it has plastered newspapers and billboards with ads and hosted parties with celebrities and musicians in cities like Austin, Texas, and Los Angeles in a bid to win back a toehold in the U.S. market.
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The art world is now eager to get a toehold in this burgeoning and lucrative market, and Rio officials hope to capitalize on their moment in the spotlight to turn the laid-back beach city known mainly for its over-the-top Carnival celebrations into a world-class metropolis and Latin America's newest arts hub.
Ashkan Soltani, an independent privacy and security researcher, said such a move would give attackers "a toehold" in Twitter's internal network, potentially allowing them either to sniff out user information as it traveled across the company's system or break into specific areas, such as the authentication servers that process users' passwords.
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