sound footing
firm footing

This put the scholarship on a firm financial footing, and the first awards were made in 1987.

A. The museum needs to get on firmer financial footing.

Which of course put their relationship on a firmer footing.

A man in the middle can see where his enemies are coming from; and it's firm footing.

And Congress may yet put some or all of the president's programs on firmer legal footing.

I want my campaign to be on a firm legal and ethical footing from day one.

There is little question that the prosecutors are on firm legal footing.

But there was little firm footing here in the marshes.

They had to wait while he poked to the side, finding firm footing.

Such shoes provide a sure, firm footing, and this the prospective mother particularly needs.