beach-head

Five, the smallest of the U. K.'s commercially-operated broadcasters, was acquired outright by RTL in 2005 and was intended to be used as a beach-head to build scale in the U.K. television market.

Desmond in Running for RTL's U.K. Channel Five 2010

Early test case of avatarism, relatively unchanged from furry communities in 3D graphic spaces such as Second Life and those virally trying to make the “metaverse” more palatable as a beach-head for transhumanism.

On Furries | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2009

There's one battle scene in TEMERAIRE with about 300 dragons , half of whom are trying to drop several thousand French troops into Kent as an invasion beach-head.

Benioff speaks 2009

And then -- relying in part on the supporters he cultivated at Stanford, Oxford and Yale Law School -- he established a beach-head in a major Black city.

Van Jones: Rise of Cory Booker: NYTimes Misses the Point 2008

The transitional measures were seen by the liberation movement as necessary compromises to ensure the broadest possible legitimacy of the new order and to use the advances made as a beach-head to a truly united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous society.

BUILDING A NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY [STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THE ANC] 2007

This paper proceeds from the premise that the ANC had to make a number of concessions to the old order in order to secure the beach-head of majority rule in 1994.

The National Question in a democratic South Africa 2007

This paper proceeds from the premise that the ANC had to make a number of concessions to the old order in order to secure the beach-head of majority rule in 1994.

CONTENTS 2007

They were made with the implicit understanding that the main thrust of movement policy would be to consolidate that beach-head and employ it to lay the foundations of a truly democratic society.

The National Question in a democratic South Africa 2007

They were made with the implicit understanding that the main thrust of movement policy would be to consolidate that beach-head and employ it to lay the foundations of a truly democratic society.

CONTENTS 2007

It is important that we boldly acknowledge and accept that the movement has had to seek compromises and make concessions to the old order so that we could attain the important beach-head of majority rule in 1994.

CONTENTS 2007