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- noun Plural form of
toehold .
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Examples
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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.
RBC, Scotiabank Results Top Expectations Caroline Van Hasselt 2011
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For weeks rebels had been bottled up in Misrata, one of a handful of toeholds they hold in western Libya.
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Sany and some of those other Chinese companies now are seeking toeholds in the U.S. and European markets.
Caterpillar Loses Ground In China's Excavator Market James R. Hagerty 2011
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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.
3M Net Edges Lower James R. Hagerty 2011
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For weeks rebels had been bottled up in Misrata, one of a handful of toeholds they hold in western Libya.
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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.
Rootless Urban Transplants Sam Sacks 2011
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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.
Half Upon a Time James Riley 2010
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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.
Half Upon a Time James Riley 2010
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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.
Half Upon a Time James Riley 2010
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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.
Round the World Now zoe zolbrod 2010
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