Sentence examples for traction from inspiring English sources

If Bachmann gets traction as a pundit, her popularity among sympathetic, far-right groups can be leveraged more effectively.

In some respects, they were ahead of Ukip in that they espoused these reactionary political views years before the party gained any traction.

He was killed on Easter Monday 1882, thrown from a carriage under a steam-powered traction engine.

I tried putting old material under the wheels to get some traction, but it was no good.

It tried to fight back in the final week with its own warnings about the threat to the NHS posed by a second Tory term, but the story gained little traction partly because the broadcasters had moved to a debate about how a new coalition would be formed, or whether Labour would form a minority government.

With the People's Climate March, we didn't just get hundreds of thousands of people in the streets, we also had incredible traction online.

Desmond was responding to a question on an issue gaining increasing traction in the industry, which is that broadcasters are being pressured to make the production companies they use to develop TV programmes work with Group M's entertainment division, which looks at ad-funded programming opportunities.

Later, while cutting wild mushrooms from a dim, damp forest carpeted in pine needles, Guzman tells me that it has been difficult for his restaurant to gain traction in Chile.

"Scurrilous in what way?" "There's a guy who has some traction in our space, who runs a company – he's a convicted rapist," Michael said.

Were there more noise about the government's quest to shrink the state and the injustice of many millions paying for the recklessness of a few, campaigning against those things might acquire some traction.

I had packed a pair of Inov8 Roclite 315s in my suitcase for extra traction in case the forecast had been different.