Sentence examples for getting more traction from inspiring English sources

Why isn't it getting more traction?

(And the "muddling through" option in South Asia is getting more traction and support).

Why isn't the Obama campaign getting more traction on economic issues?

When I asked various New York political sages why his campaign wasn't getting more traction, I heard two answers.

"The 2010 election really changed the composition of many of the state legislatures, creating an environment where anti-choice restrictions are getting more traction," said Julie Rikelman, the litigation director of the U.S. program of the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights.

Getting more traction here.

"I wish he'd gotten more traction," he said.

But now, Democrats say, Mr. Bush has a record, and that should allow them to get more traction.

"But everyone is asking the same kinds of questions: How do we get more traction in social?

While the residents of Paramus as well as the county's Republican legislators in Trenton have opposed past efforts to overturn the law, Ms. Weinberg, a Democrat, might get more traction on the issue this time around.

Other dissidents, like the great writer Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace Prize winner now in prison, write eloquently of democracy but gain little traction among ordinary Chinese: Ai's artistic work also seems incomprehensible to many people, but obscene jokes about grass-mud-horses can get more traction — and be difficult to quash.