Sentence examples for fillip with from inspiring English sources

Plain dresses, given a fillip with epaulettes disembodied from the traditional trench coat, might be good for the boardroom.

Middleweight James DeGale today gave Britain's Olympic boxing squad a much needed fillip, with a smooth 11-5 victoverover America's Shawn Estrada.

Brain research in India, and Bengaluru in particular, received a fillip with Infosys (BSE 1.60%) cofounder Kris Gopalakrishnan's Rs 225-crore grant for a brain research centre at IISc.

Last week the case made by migration's critics received an enormous fillip with the publication of a report by the House of Lords economic affairs committee, claiming migrants' contribution to the rest of the population's prosperity was negligible.

The trunk, which holds the fuel tank and a spare tire (which Trossi removed from the trunk top), finishes in a fillip with a Batmobile-style swooping wasp tail.

At least Cairns, who must at the moment wonder why he hurried back from his one-day stint with New Zealand, gave Notts a fillip with a performance of twinke-toed ruthlessness, striking seven powerful fours in his 39.

The project has received a useful fillip recently with the offer of match funding from the ethical cosmetics business Lush.

They got a fillip last year with the introduction of Reg NMS, a rule that forces trades to be sent to the venue offering "best execution".

A big fillip came with Bank Of America's decision to charge customers a $5 monthly fee for using their debit cards – which resulted in as many people joining US credit unions in a single month as usually make the switch in a year, and played its part in that bank and others dropping the plan.

Google is hoping to give Android security a significant fillip today with the announcement of an official bug bounty, promising to pay as much as $38,000 to those who find serious flaws in the world's most used mobile operating system.

It included a drizzle of maple syrup, but again, the sweet fillip was done with finesse.