Sentences with phrase «gain a foothold against»

Those who were unlucky enough to survive now gather in the only sanctuary left, the Underground, banding together in order to gain a foothold against the minions of darkness and ultimately save the bloodline of humanity.

Not exact matches

In what will be a hotly contested race pitting Avella against other campaign heavyweights like City Councilman Peter Vallone and Leroy Comrie, Lobbyist Melinda Katz, and Senator Jose Peralta, despite the strong opposition Avella is said to be mulling a chance to stand out from the crowd to gain a foothold in boro - wide politics for another shot at Mayor in 2017.

After nearly five months of failing to raise competitive quantities of money or gain a foothold in the polls, Avella acknowledged the same reality that Republican billionaire John Catsimatidis said made him decide against getting into the race this week: beating an incumbent mayor is really hard.

The industry pressure against his proposal would be great here because Erie County would be the first in New York State, and lobbyists would not want such tobacco restrictions to gain a foothold.

Given the millions of cells all simultaneously producing proteins to combat an infection, it's very long odds against any given invading bacterium ever gaining a foothold.

That a functional immune system is no defense against malignancy once deregulated, pro-inflammatory iNKT cells gain a foothold.

Microsoft will invest $ 300 million in the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader operation.Microsoft will gain a foothold in the fast - growing e-books market while Barnes & Noble gets more firepower to compete against the Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad.

Most missions are multi-staged; you might start out having to gain a foothold in a town, then defend against a counterattack, then capture the remainder of the town.