Sentence examples for was fillip from inspiring English sources

Susan Stewart, former director of communications at Yes Scotland and Scotland's first diplomat to the United States from 2001-05, says: "It was fillip for the no campaign, and I was disturbed by the knee-jerk anti-Americanism from a minority on the yes side, but I don't think it's particularly significant in terms of how Scots will vote".

The absence of Ferguson was a fillip for Hearts and one that they exploited to telling effect.

"Goals are what we are about really, and today was a fillip in terms of pushing us on in the league.

There were those who thought that it was a fillip to see someone demonstrate such out-and-out passion while playing for their country.

When Mr. Dugosh clasped his hands overhead and offered a serpentine image, the allusion to selling snake oil was a fillip to words and movement that did not necessarily add up to much beyond a romp.

The opening of a large computer chip plant in the late 1990s was a fillip to the economy, but its fortunes have been subject to the fluctuating world demand for microchips.

If Cushing's vision for the new institute was the fillip launching Weed's future endeavors at Hopkins, yet another stimulus was at hand by 1920, when he received a draft paper on the organization of an ideal neurological institute from Ernest Spiegel (1895 1985), an Austrian physician who eventually became professor of experimental neurology at Temple University in 1931.

The retail appetite for corporate bonds has been a fillip for other cash-strapped European borrowers.

The Daily Mail's Derek Lawrenson argued that it "can only be a fillip for the Europeans".

The contract is a fillip for the outsourcing group, which has been dogged by scandals.

More to the point, the victory would be a fillip to a prime minister who desperately needs one.