Sentence examples for as a fillip from inspiring English sources

And yet it has evidently acted as a fillip.

The deal was seen as a fillip for the country's quasi-moderate leader, President Hassan Rouhani.

Try Major General Housecleaning as a fillip, as a refreshing alteration.

"It's like drinking sunshine," he gushed as a fillip of gratitude at sharing the holiday table passed through us all.

That decline acted as a fillip to consumers, sustaining spending in particular in the middle years of this decade when real disposable-income growth slowed to a crawl.

Would it be seen as a fillip for unionism?PR: I don't think our intention is to unpick any of the arrangements that we've already agreed on.

Or he might be fired by the underperforming fund, which thus raises the average performance of his remaining accounts—a fillip known as "survivorship bias".

However, some food businesses, such as cassava processors, have actually enjoyed a fillip as those with best practice in food hygiene were trusted, the Afford Business Centre reports.

Aid has also strengthened institutions such as parliament, has given a fillip to civil society and has helped facilitate elections.

United commonly have greater prizes in mind than that or the Carling Cup but today's victory is a fillip as the true challenges approach.

Ironically, it was another conflict, on the Korean peninsula, that gave the local economy a fillip, as demand soared for canned food, cars and other goods.