Sentence examples for fillip at from inspiring English sources
It is still possible that a United Nations resolution could give his party a fillip at the last minute.
Childs added a striking sculptural fillip at the southern end of the base, which has a transparent glass skin under which you can see the steel frame.
Except for a minor keyboard fillip at the opening of "Everybody Loves You," which recalls the main motif of Usher's "Yeah!," almost any song on this album could have been released during the late eighties or early nineties.
This would give British forces in Helmand province a much-needed fillip at the end of a year in which military efforts have been overshadowed by a series of so-called green-on-blue attacks, in which members of the Afghan army and police have shot their allies.
For him to burst onto the Western scene then with explosively fragmented mytho-historical collages and "landscape dramas" featuring references to Pink Floyd, backward-running film, bleeding refrigerators and the like, was not only a finger in the eye of East German cultural bureaucrats but also, in ways not immediately recognized, a fillip at his new Western public.
But the two minor-key works are sublime: No. 20 in D minor, quintessentially Mozartean from its dark and mysterious offbeat opening to its jokey little fillips at the end; and No. 24 in C minor, pioneering a sound and style that Beethoven would make his own.
Bottom club Leicester gave their hopes of escaping relegation a big fillip as Jamie Vardy scored a late winner at West Brom.
It would be a huge fillip if at Nice the remaining institutional barriers to the next round of EU enlargement could fall.Enlargement tops the agenda, but other issues vital to the Union will also be negotiated.
The prosecution's final witness, Dr. Joseph Cohen, who performed the autopsy, added the chilling fillip that at least one of the shots, and perhaps three of them, had hit Diallo when he was already down.
Note the "both are far from perfect" fillip aimed at Twitter and Facebook to lay down a little light covering fire for a reframed double-barrel assault on Google as the really big baddie for not even showing up.
For an added fillip in "Dames at Sea," she's the sweetheart of the Navy too.
