Sentence examples for gaining enough traction from inspiring English sources

Somehow, in a move utterly unprecedented in X Factor history, Reggie N Bollie had managed to break free of their initial joke-act status, gaining enough traction to miraculously make it to the final.

Still, even virtual currency analysts who believe in Ripple's software have said there is a big difference between Ripple the company being successful, and Ripple the token gaining enough traction to justify current prices.

Acquisition prices can be driven up to billion dollar levels when an acquirer develops the fear, real or not, that they might lose an opportunity, either to a competitor or to the target itself gaining enough traction that it will remain independent and become a threat to the acquirer over time.

At the core of these city-backed programs is the idea that minority- and women-owned businesses need help gaining enough traction to hire employees and navigating the process to become accredited.

Michele Bachmann never gained enough traction to present a serious, prolonged threat.

In the same snowy situation, the unstuck wheel may gain enough traction to pull the car free.

This argument had gained enough traction by May, 2014, that an executive at Shell, facing questions from investors, felt compelled to write a twenty-page letter dismissing it.

The point of the extension, the official said, is to allow the negotiations to gain enough traction to continue without further disruption.

Several lawmakers, too, have weighed in on the medical bill issue, though they have not yet gained enough traction for their proposals.

That line of argument gained enough traction to prompt a Portland Sunday Telegram columnist to note that the primary seemed to turn more on a "question of sex" than on "ability".

Last year, when a bill on cybersecurity from the House Homeland Security Committee competed with proposals from three other House committees, none gained enough traction to pass both the House and the Senate.