Sentence examples for drive ticket from inspiring English sources

He adds that the bill would simply drive ticket resale underground, "increasing fraud and pushing up prices for fans".

Many of the headliner names that event planners rely on to drive ticket sales are the same people those journalists cover.

Bizarre though it sounds to say it now, the rationale is to drive ticket sales," said the sports minister Hugh Robertson.

"Directors like myself will insist on an extra week of closed dress rehearsals, which will mean less previews which will drive ticket prices up and exclude more people.

UK cinema ticket sales rose 14.5% in the first half of 2009 – a performance that helped drive ticket sales across Europe to a 3.8% increase, according to figures released by the European Audiovisual Observatory.

The play, which wraps up a sold-out production on Saturday at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., received mixed-to-favorable reviews there; the notices for Mr. Cranston's performance were strong, and producers are counting on his star power to drive ticket sales in the move to Broadway.

While fares stayed low for a time, rising oil prices drove ticket prices higher, especially after oil crossed $100 a barrel in January.

It has driven ticket sales (the opening night screening is sold out) and drawn attention, resulting in this year's partnership between Subway Cinema, the four-man cooperative that has run the festival since its inception, and the decidedly mainstream Film Society of Lincoln Center.

But other factors -- the terrorist attacks, the continuing recession -- have driven ticket prices to an all-time low, and American is struggling to dump costly planes and workers acquired in the buyout.

Though Layton and Pierce documented 371 films that were entirely shot or featured sequences in the two-strip process, they found no proof that color drove ticket sales, Pierce said.

"Star casting became more of a necessity that drove ticket-buying audiences, because they were being choosy and buying less," Mr. Telsey said.