Sentence examples for considerable traction from inspiring English sources

These organisations are gaining considerable "traction" nationally and this is likely to continue.

In Europe, after all, the resurgent environmental-building movement started only recently, but it has already gained considerable traction.

During that campaign, Mr. Lautenberg gained considerable traction by repeatedly questioning her "fitness" and "her ability to do the job".

He believed that the Fed could gain considerable traction not so much by changing expectations as through the direct effect of nonstandard open-market operations.

In recent weeks, a blog called Secrets of the Caste of Montecitorio, named after the building that houses Italy's lower house, has gained considerable traction.

He cites as a key personal influence the novel Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, whose ideas picked up considerable traction among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs during the 1990s.

Despite this, clever use of social media and strong lobbying has gained fluoridation naysayers considerable political traction, prompting the Irish government to promise yet another full review of the practice.

Though Mr. Gutierrez already had considerable career traction on his own, he credits American Realness with leading directly to a series of European engagements and describes his relationship with Mr. Pryor, who tours with him, as an intimate, intense collaboration.

The app managed to pick up some considerable early traction — users logged more than 7 million food ratings in Eatery's first five months on the market, but CEO Kamal wound up leaving Massive Health less than a year later.

It's a concept that isn't exactly new — Phonedeck switched up its tactics with a focus on contact management last month, and Disrupt NY finalist CallApp takes a very similar approach — but the Android-only application managed to pick up considerable early traction, and racked up over a million downloads since its initial launch.

That makes today's announcement not a surprise in the slightest, but it still speaks to the considerable developer traction that BlackBerry has managed to cultivate over the past few months — after all, the platform launched with some 70,000 apps this past January, so racking up another 30,000 submissions in two months is nothing to sneeze at.