Sentence examples for traction against from inspiring English sources

But he could not gain any traction against the Bush financial juggernaut.

The last time a Georgia primary really mattered, an underdog Southern Democrat was desperately seeking traction against a Massachusetts man.

But he just cannot seem to gain any traction against Ms. Collins, who has presented herself as a moderate with a long record of work on bipartisan legislation.

In short, the haters, the critics and the skeptics have never managed to get any traction against what is now a cultural juggernaut.

In a changing market, Dell has been unable to gain traction against competitors as it has in the past, when it has cut prices to gain market share.

But for Google's music service, which has struggled to gain traction against iTunes, Amazon and the myriad of other digital services, it is an important step.

Pelago made an early location-sharing app called Whrrl, but it didn't have a ton of traction competing against media darling Foursquare.

In both cases (and others), multinationals gained traction slowly against locally grown competitors only after they implemented a comprehensive set of India-specific operations and capabilities to scale their networks.

As discussed before, flexion in midcarpus does not control the dorsally tilted distal fragment because of the mainly proximal insertion of the dorsal wrist ligaments on the proximal carpal row [86], but translation and dorsiflexion tethers the stronger palmar ligaments, thus stabilising the reduction result while the added longitudinal traction protects against redisplacement.

In a time when the Black Lives Matter movement is gaining traction fighting against injustices over 150 years in the making, he shouts about building a wall, banning Muslims from the US; his followers openly abuse black people who dare to challenge the rhetoric of a Trump rally.

Since actin is a major component generating traction forces against a substrate and is involved in cell-cell linkages via cadherins, it is not unexpected that actin disruption also diminishes cell-cell contractile force.