Sentence examples for boosted it to from inspiring English sources

One friend in particular jumped on the cause right away — which boosted it to 40,000 people.

According to the opinion, Talbots executive came to believe that was "insufficient" and in early 1997 boosted it to 6%–and made the higher payment retroactive back nearly a year.

"When an organization becomes bigger, it becomes more bureaucratic," says Larry Lynn, DARPA's director from 1995 to 1998, who says he successfully lobbied Congress to shrink his budget after the Clinton administration had boosted it to "dangerous levels" in 1993 and 1994 to finance the short-lived technology reinvestment program.

This was, in turn, fed into Y-12, which boosted it to about 89%, sufficient for nuclear weapons.

At the same time, they seem to have turned down a more ambitious measure that would have boosted it to $15 almost immediately.

It's no wonder that pilsner originated in Seattle, where a local taste for the retro, artsy, and wee-bit ironic boosted it to the top of America's best cities for hipsters, according to Travel + Leisure readers who voted in the annual America's Favorite Cities survey.

Since the crisis, Japan has decided to lower its reliance on nuclear power, reversing its plans to boost it to 50percentt by 2030.

Although plans called for Skylab to be used again with one of the first space shuttle missions boosting it to a higher orbit, increased solar activity caused its orbit to degrade faster than expected.

The jury added $15 million in punitive damages to the verdict, boosting it to $38 million, after hearing that Seyfarth Shaw had accelerated its billing after it realized its mistake.

His hedge fund, esl Investments, raised its stake last year to 45% and is looking to boost it to above 50% in exchange for capping his voting power at that level, according to AutoNation.

(An optional 30-foot shortwave antenna boosts it to another level of sensitivity).