Sentence examples for necessary kick from inspiring English sources

Rather than considering it a problem, they'll argue it's a necessary kick up the backside so many need.

With revenue for manga in magazine and book form having inched down for more than a decade — to ¥448 billion in 2008 from the peak of ¥586 billion in 1995, according to the Research Institute for Publication in Tokyo — some analysts are calling the cellphone "the savior" of the form and a necessary kick in the pants for a sagging industry.

My counselors were supportive and helpful and listened to me complain with impossible patience; my friends never failed to be there for advice and sometimes a necessary kick in the pants; and my future school has thus far proven to be just about as welcoming and exciting a place as is humanly possible.

But, even as someone who is a participant in lots of the efforts to stimulate reform (such as the recent Carnegie-inspired Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers initiative) and a teacher committed to problem-solving and team-based practical education in my own classes, I think your article is right on and a necessary kick in the pants for legal education.

This "force" is zero at the equator, so any infant storms there don't get the necessary kick to start spinning.

If necessary, kick them out of the party.

This lively activity would have had little impact without serious musicianship behind it, and Mr. Darnell's current band provided the necessary kicks.

Players were allowed to handle the ball but not to run farther than necessary to kick it.

From this point of view, learning what's necessary to kick a great penalty shot is a skill that translates.

guide us through adultery, blackmail, prostitution and, if necessary, a kick in the shins or a blow to the head.

Female action heroes have become the rage because their extremism seems necessary to kick womanhood into a new shape.