Sentences with phrase «people gain a foothold»

By making a loan through Kiva, you are helping underprivileged people gain a foothold on their future and eventually getting your money back.

Not exact matches

This debt issue may have many different varieties of people attempting to gain a foothold in this stalemate, but i think that the time for partisan politics should have ended months ago.

Here we find not only our earliest creation story (that of the first chapter of Genesis, as we shall note presently, came much later) and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden for their disobedience, but also the doings of the patriarchs — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Joseph in Egypt, Moses leading his people through the desert, Joshua leading them in their rugged attempts to gain a foothold in Canaan.

Because the threshold of vaccinated people has fallen below that critical number, measles has been able to gain a foothold.

As she and I spoke, I likened this to the experience of some minorities in society, groups of people who find out that their performance in work settings and education and public deportment must actually outdo the majority's standards if they're to gain the respected foothold they need in a plurality.

With 39 million people already owning devices, will Apple be too late to gain a foothold?

It's a vital time for Apple to get into the smart speaker space: Voice - activated AI interfaces are quickly gaining a foothold in our everyday lives, with research firm eMarketer predicting more than 35 million people in the U.S. will bark out a command to an AI assistant at least once a month this year — double the number from 2016.