Sentences with word «beachhead»
A beachhead refers to a secure area on a beach that is captured by soldiers during war or military operations. It serves as a starting point for further advancement or as a base for ongoing operations. Full definition
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Its landmark decision was heralded as «a dramatic beachhead for the divestment movement» by American environmentalist Bill McKibben and has inspired universities across Britain and Europe to follow suit.
The ants apparently establish beachheads in areas disturbed by human activity and then invade neighboring undisturbed areas.
The ever - growing list of American retailers with strong beachheads on foreign shores now includes Toys «R» Us, Blockbusters, Wal - Mart, NikeTown, Tommy Hilfiger, Disney, Warner Brothers, Domino's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Baskin - Robbins.
The enterprises named above, plus dozens (but not hundreds) more, have established beachheads of innovation in particular locales.
Those interests can also be seen in the programs of a number of newly established seminaries and divinity schools, as well as beachheads at older established institutions.
They concluded that games were simultaneously heading in a more casual direction as evidenced by the success of PopCap - style titles, and still held a strong beachhead with more traditional core RPG - style titles such as Elder Scrolls Oblivion IV.
Five years after Rosemary's Baby, the genre would establish an even bigger beachhead at the Oscars, courtesy of a gamechanging blockbuster and a vulgar, vomit - spewing little girl: The Exorcist.
Those schools — among those that would have qualified for federal school turnaround grants — were Raymond's beachhead into instilling a sense of urgency and taking on practices in the low - performing schools.
Clearly Senate Republicans — who have only two members from the five boroughs — want to make Queens a new beachhead in keeping their majority.
Hero's March adds the new Beachhead map, letting players battle for its fortress in all multiplayer modes except Tribute.
Currently Webmasters works with 60,000 Realtors in the U.S., representing about a 6 % market share, with strong beachheads in some cities and little presence in others.
As FiveStars has gained beachheads in other cities, it had exported the culture of cohabitation elsewhere, too.
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The EPA transition and beachhead teams, which helped shape the EPA's early agenda under the Trump administration, also featuredseveral climate change deniers, including Steven Milloy, who refers to the EPA's finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health and the environment as «the original climate sin.»
«The best beachhead strategy for a new technology is one that demonstrates that the technology works, is highly valued by the customer, and gives you a high margin,» says Jerome Engel, executive director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley.
Alexa's first challenge was establishing a user beachhead.
I don't ever want to see another generation of young Americans bleed their lives into sandy beachheads in the Pacific, or rice paddies and jungles in the in Asia or the muddy battlefields of Europe.
What began with strict dietary guidelines for cafeteria food and a soda pop - ban in grade school vending machines increasingly extends to the last beachhead for sugar - laden food in schools: classroom parties and holiday treats.
It is beautifully presented, with sometimes stunning cinematography and seamless effects (though the French beachhead invasion hearkens to what would likely only be represented in a WWII flick), and the actors are, to the man, well cast and played.
By Eric Ahlberg The intrepid Venice Beachhead reporters went over to the new offices of the Center For The Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), where Venice Artist Carol Wells and her colleagues -LSB-...]
The Call of Duty Elite beta has been in full swing for a good while now, as Activision stress their servers and ensure the service headed up by Beachhead Studios is in fighting fit shape for the November launch to coincide with Modern Warfare 3's release.
The service, as we know, has been developed by new Activision studio Beachhead though has also had input from Infinity Ward, Treyarch and Sledgehammer.
On paper, the 11th Congressional district — the GOP's sole beachhead in otherwise blue New York City — looks ripe for the flipping.
The fast - growing company (which ranked No. 499 on the 2013 PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies) had already established a sales beachhead in Colorado, and is developing a presence in Australia, says president and co-founder Scott MacDonald.
Opinion differs on whether Research In Motion, based in Waterloo, Ont., can buffer its bottom line by establishing a significant beachhead in the increasingly lucrative tablet market to go along with its ever - growing smartphone sales, or whether it should close up shop and get out of the game while it still can.
«Really, 2015 is fundamentally about establishing these early beachheads, to use a military term, in these large organizations,» Filippelli says.
He feared the disunity that once plagued the federal right, and worried about the NDP establishing a durable beachhead in that bastion of conservatism.
LONDON — Wealthsimple Inc.'s offices in London matches its moniker: two small, white - walled rooms with rented desks, just enough to serve the needs of the Canadian fintech's seven - person, trans - Atlantic beachhead.
Both the number and size of congregations can be striking for people accustomed to a Catholic world that has only in recent decades been broken by a Pentecostal beachhead.
Indeed, that minimal protection establishes a legal beachhead for the principle that human life must be legally respected.
After making an initial beachhead with concussion lawsuits in the NFL, The Lawyers (capital letters necessary) are pushing inland and making great, great gains.
Congressman Daniel Donovan, the representative of the sole red beachhead in blue New York City, today backed one of his former staffers for a soon - to - be-vacant City Council seat that overlaps heavily with the Brooklyn end of Donovan's Staten Island - based turf.
The Democratic Governors Association has established its long - anticipated beachhead in Connecticut, hiring elements of President Obama's re-election team through a week - old independent expenditure group, Connecticut Forward.
Initially embodying the dream that space travel might become routine and that we could establish an orbital beachhead for ambitious exploration of the moon and beyond, the shuttle ultimately symbolized the cruel reality of space travel — one in which merely ferrying people and cargo to space's jumping - off point is staggeringly difficult, expensive, and dangerous.
Okay, so maybe Ryan and his gang of spoiled beachheads aren't exactly the 2008 equivalent of Cobra Kai, but their existence moves the story just the same.
PSA CEO Carlos Tavares said the company intends to establish a car - sharing and mobility services beachhead in Los Angeles in partnership with Bolloré Group, which operates electric car - sharing services in Paris and other cities.
NEWS EDITOR GREG MIGLIORE: Nissan redesigned the Altima with an eye toward maintaining the sedan's considerably fortified beachhead in the midsize sedan segment.
He and the Chosen must also sail to a deadly beachhead and a fortress - turned - prison.
By Mary Getlein Beachhead: How did you become a poet?
The elephant seals showed up one year, and are now expanding to locations both north and south of the original beachhead.
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