Sentence examples for gains purchase from inspiring English sources

It's our only truly national sport, unless you count the Summernats, which you probably shouldn't, and it sits at the very centre of the country's sense of self-worth – an absurd position for a sport to occupy, of course, but one that gains purchase even as its absurdity grows.

With prices falling across the economy -- the government announced today that consumer prices declined 1.6percentt in February -- money left in a bank account gains purchasing power over time here even without earning interest.

Bullish players expecting FedEx to extend gains purchased at least 2,800 now in-the-money calls at the December $90 strike for an average premium of $2.13 a-pop.

Occasionally, there was climbing to do, on all fours; the Whippet blades helped me gain purchase.

And so the shame of the fire gained purchase once again.

Unable to gain purchase in the primary race, he dropped out in late January 2008.

A pernicious if barmy idea begins to gain purchase: Moyes is the issue.

They use the teeth to gain purchase on their prey until they can coil their body around it.

Someone who has spent a good portion of her life gaining purchase has suddenly been asked to sell something, and she seems to find it slightly beneath her.

The bombings seem likely to be the work of Al Qaeda affiliates, Islamist spoilers keen to gain purchase in the Syrian chaos by contributing to it.

The Middle Bakken layer is thin — between ten and fifty feet thick through most of the basin — which makes it all but impossible for a vertical well to gain purchase.