Sentence examples for of fillip from inspiring English sources

WINE LIST: A smart, well-chosen international list of about 200 wines, with three Champagnes by the glass and 10 wines served in two sizes of "fillip," either one-quarter or two-thirds of a bottle.

Even the crowds coming out of the feelgood fillip of the packed finals of the beach volleyball on Copacabana were a reminder of the corporatism that is hardwired into the Games.

The 67-year-old took over a national team of high expectation and low achievement when it was desperately in need of a fillip.

Meanwhile Els had openly spoken of the fillip his US Open performance had given him.

And the scoop is something of a fillip for the paper's editor, Matt Kelly, and its publisher, Archant.

And, if they don't, the policy measures that are being introduced will provide less of a fillip to the economy than the optimists are hoping for.

After a summer in which Mrs Merkel rarely mentioned him by name, it was good for him merely to be seen standing next to her.But even that did not provide much of a fillip.

The bass line moves forward and throws in the kind of circular fillip that would take ages to sample but that a practiced session player can do without thinking.

And in encouraging investors to take the cash they received from central banks in the rich stagnating West and pump it into higher-return bonds and assets in emerging economies, maybe global growth received a bit of a fillip.

"It's up to us to up our game and produce performances and get in the top four and give our national team something, a bit of a fillip if you like, to go into the World Cup pre-season and push the national team on to some sort of success in the World Cup.

He is, at any rate, a crack singer, and in an evening of symbols added a delightful fillip of substance.