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Example sentences for "firm footing"

  • The editor of Goethe's "Gesprachen"] Our business seems to me to stand on a firm footing.

  • The chief thing is that my present works should prove themselves to be taking a firm footing in musical matters, and should contribute something towards doing away with what is corrupt.

  • To make a firm footing in Vienna as a pianoforte player is no small task, especially under present circumstances!

  • Confusion enough prevailed in the house of the Ordelaffi, who had taken a firm footing in Forli in the last decades of the thirteenth century, and at times ruled over Cesena.

  • The capture of this place procured for the king a firm footing in Pomerania, the command of the Oder, and a magazine for his troops.

  • This Mansfeld now appeared in Bohemia, and, by the occupation of Pilsen, strongly fortified and favourable to the Emperor, obtained a firm footing in the country.

  • Wismar was taken, and a firm footing gained on the Baltic.

  • Probably it was only in consequence of this that the vine gained a firm footing on the Seine as on the Moselle.

  • Even the French, when they had a firm footing in India, committed a capital fault in forming alliances more with the Mahometans than with the native Indian powers.

  • They could not be prevented from obtaining a firm footing in the North-eastern provinces, by the Black Sea.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advanced guard; being convinced; cannot write; dating back; firm belief; firm believer; firm footing; firm grip; firm ground; firm voice; firmly fixed; firmly resolved; first round; general government; great earthquake; imitate them; inverse ratio; longer loved; old woman; potassium hydroxide; quite understand; really know; rise above; rump white; thou darest; usually found