Examples of bridgehead

• In the summary, the authors suggest that flexible employment opportunities could provide a welcome bridgehead for those not yet willing to retire permanently.

• He has a ' transcendental argument ' to show that interpretation requires a ' bridgehead ' of beliefs having to do with ' middlesized ' objects.

• In this respect, gentlemanly capitalists were providing the all-important link between the periphery and the ' second bridgehead ' of metropolitan economic interests, which made invasion an irresistible policy option.

• That will help to ensure that the chambers serve as a bridgehead to directly elected regional assemblies.

• It would provide a bridgehead to the sea.

• I trust that before long he may be able to enlarge that bridgehead.

• We should also bear in mind the further possibility of extending out from such an economic bridgehead.

• The bridgeheads established in many of the articles and protocols to gain the intergovernmental pillar are aimed in the other direction.

• The problem there was a rapid advance and a retreat under pressure to a bridgehead.

• Although the centre span had collapsed into the water, the infantry crossed and secured a bridgehead against slight opposition.

• Is it to take further the new bridgeheads which have been established?

• This would be a bridgehead for efforts to guarantee freedom of expression.

• We are in favour of a transatlantic bridge, but it should be a bridgehead.

• It would be a bridgehead supplied by sea—a sanctions-free zone.

• That they have done so, and held the position—they look like holding a bridgehead—is a very fine military performance.