Sentence examples for a big fillip from inspiring English sources

But if Mr Tadic succeeds, which seems marginally more likely, friends of the Balkans in the EU will receive a big fillip (see article).

The discovery may also, as I hinted earlier, give a big fillip to the world of cryptozoology - the study of undiscovered animals.

The result will provide a big fillip to Isla Fisher, who has top billing for the first time in a big Hollywood movie.

Moreover, the direct election of mayors and of the presidents of Italy's 20 regions has given a big fillip to local government, and spending is not as wasteful as it was.But, viewed in the round, the picture is less rosy.

A goal or two before halftime would be a big fillip for the Merengues; that would give Dortmund the willies and get the crowd in full song for a swashbuckling second half.

Banks and insurance firms own 15% of the market by value; giving the market a lift would be a big fillip for them.Yet when a board member of a local broker in December ventured into the stockmarket for the first time, it elicited only cynicism from seasoned hands.

But it was above all Margaret Thatcher who sank her party north of the border, providing a bigger fillip to the nationalist cause than William Wallace and Mel Gibson combined.Between 1979 and 1981 Scotland lost a fifth of its workforce.

Over time, he estimates, the cumulative effect will be to lift GDP by 10%, a bigger fillip than that provided by structural funds.Now for the hard partYet in none of these areas structural funds, trade and investment, or macroeconomics can Portugal expect plain sailing from now on.

"The more the government does, the more the MPC can't do," says Geoffrey Dicks, an economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland.The rickety state of the public finances also argues against a big fiscal fillip.

Its willingness to be judged, warts and all, was seen as big fillip for this voluntary mechanism, which is intended to prod governments into performing better, since the public assessments of them could be embarrassing.

But the big fillip was in revenues, which rose from $11.7 billion a year earlier to $17.1 billion.TradeJapan's trade surplus jumped in December, taking the full-year total to a record ¥13.99 trillion $107 billionn); its surplus with America, at ¥6.7 trillion, was the highest since 1987.