Sentences with phrase «gained traction when»

The concept of «living little» started to rise during the decluttering / minimalist craze of the» 00s and gained traction when the recession hit, as a way to combat ridiculous mortgages, endless weekends spent on home repair and lawn - mowing, and the bitter reality that your house value can, despite all your work, drop like a rock when the big boys on Wall Street screw up.

It wasn't until 2014 that the idea of a microbiome in the womb gained traction when a team of scientists found bacterial DNA in placental tissue.

But I think that only gained traction when we started talking about trying to do something new and different in the partnership between an arts institution and a corporate entity.

Sanders gains traction when he accuses Hillary Clinton of being bought and paid for by Goldman Sachs.

Sadly, this proposal by Josh Levs will only gain traction when enough fathers have decided they want it.

This makes it very difficult for new ETFs to gain traction when an established fund has ample trading volume.

There are some arguments as to whether a dewclaw aids dogs in gaining traction when they run since, in some breeds, the dewclaw makes contact while they're running and the dewclaw nail wears down in the same way that their other toenails do, due to contact with the ground.

Agents of Mayhem, a game I was pretty concerned about, didn't gain any traction when it launched.

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When the first one took hold in 2010, it quickly gained traction.

We first wrote about After School, a social network created specifically for high - school students, when it launched and started gaining traction in late 2014.

So when their innovation starts gaining traction, they need to bring in an MBA to run the company.

When my colleagues noticed I was regularly winning and gaining traction, it motivated them to get in the game, too.

When you have that, gaining traction on an offer is much easier.

Nvidia's first product, a multimedia card for personal computers called NV1, arrived in 1995 at a time when three - dimensional games began to gain traction.

He later stepped aside in favor of Mattrick after Zynga's financial performance began to falter when a string of newer games failed to gain much traction.

«We believe Google will continue to gain traction in the cloud market, and when combined with Google Play and sales of Google's hardware products, we see Google's «other» revenue growing 38 percent to nearly $ 14 billion in 2017,» Morningstar analyst Ali Mogharabi wrote in a client note.

They were founded at a time when the efficiency of the traditional industries was low: e-commerce gained massive user number because classical retail was underdeveloped; delivery companies expanded because of the unreliability of China Post; healthcare apps gained momentum because of the inefficiencies of the healthcare system; mobile payments took the population by storm because plastic never had time to gain traction.

Mr. Szabo first made brief mention of Bitcoin on his blog in mid-2009, and in 2011, when the currency was still struggling to gain traction, he wrote about it again at greater length, noting the similarity between bit gold and Bitcoin.

People pivot when it becomes obvious that their business plan is too complicated, will never gain traction, has no potential customers, or is just a bad idea.

Just when it looked like the risk - on paradigm was gaining some traction, Chancellor Merkel, through her spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said, ``... dreams that are taking hold again now that with this package everything will be solved and everything will be over on Monday won't be able to be fulfilled.»

The Copycat idea of Christianity seems to be gaining so much traction these days, yet when you look into the historicity of these claims they are by and large a joke.

Watch for Father Lemaitre's bold idea to gain even further traction from the findings of the James Webb Space Telescope when it begins orbiting the sun, a million miles from Earth, in a few years.

It's when people connect on this experiential level that ideas (in this case, «bad things shouldn't happen to good people») gain cultural traction and eventually make their way into religious imagery.

But the notion that began to gain traction, in the midst of the twentieth century's horrors piled one on top of another, that God truly suffers, becomes possible only when the illusion of divine immutability is shed.

I believe Dortumnd will slowly gain traction as they iron out their issues when half a team was not available.

But when I tried to look it up to see if it had gained traction or if the school was embracing it, a bunch of links came up with references to the chickens.

The rumour mill is gaining some real traction when it comes to Arturo Vidal and Manchester United, when the noise surrounding a possible # 40 million move for the Chilean midfielder by the Red Devils getting louder and louder.

Businesswoman Jessica Crawford was also in the running, but ended her bid when she failed to gain sufficient traction among local GOP leaders.

Casualty aversion gained traction following the Vietnam War, and later during the 1990s, when the US fought wars that were largely considered for secondary, even tertiary interests — Somalia and Kosovo, for example.

When the former Brooklyn Democratic Party boss had to resign from his influential position in the Assembly — as well as give up control of the Brooklyn Democratic party — amid a sexual harassment suit, the Aronis began to gain traction.

One solution gaining traction is the latest incarnation of congestion pricing — a proposal that failed when it was last pushed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg nearly a decade ago.

The RNC appeared more befuddled - putting up the lame Jeb Bush, and then doing nothing when Trump unexpectedly gained traction.

When Democrat John Edwards ran for president in 2004, he gained traction in the primaries by talking about «two Americas» — one wealthy and powerful, the other poor and weak.

The shift, agreed by the shadow cabinet, is designed to prevent Labour being portrayed as the anti-referendum party in the European elections in May at a time when hostility to Brussels is gaining public traction.

The podcast gained traction on Monday when it was announced that WNYC Studios and Pineapple Street Media — producer of, among other podcasts, «Missing Richard Simmons» — will partner with Some Spider entertainment brand CAFE on the podcast, which is to focus on issues of justice and fairness, according to the release.

When, in the following years and in other countries, movements of the same kind began to gain traction and international attention, they were compared to fascism.

When his policies gained little traction, Mr. de Blasio's public comments, often idealist, turned more brittle: He chastised lawmakers as selfish and ineffectual, further alienating some potential partners in the Capitol.

The fear that Trump will fire Mueller from leading the probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia has caused fear among Democrats for months, but gained new traction on Friday when Rep. Jackie SpeierKaren (Jackie) Lorraine Jacqueline SpeierOvernight Defense: Over 500 amendments proposed for defense bill Measures address transgender troops, Yemen war Trump taps acting VA chief as permanent secretary Defense bill amendment would protect open transgender military service Navy to stop announcing names of officials fired for misconduct: report MORE (D - Calif.)

Not only did he find himself at the short end of the stick when a leader was last chosen, but his campaign this year, stuck in the doldrums for months, gained critical traction as he contrasted, in debate after debate, what he described as his inclusive style of leadership and decision - making with a heavy - handed control of the Council he saw from Quinn, who for months had been the clear frontrunner.

Carl Honore's best - selling book «In Praise of Slow» has gained increasing traction across corporate and academic life, espousing the theory that when we slow down we end up working better and faster.

The idea that we are now in a geological epoch defined by our very presence is gaining traction, but exactly when did the Anthropocene begin?

It started as a revolution to accept our bodies and implications of female - specific biology, namely periods, a conversation that gained traction a few years ago when we finally started talking about it openly.

That's why we perk up and notice when one seems to stick around and gain traction with lots of people.

When it first gained traction, grunge as a style of dressing epitomised an air of indifference towards appearance, clothes, and, generally the material world.

The tipping point was in 2009, when a strong social media strategy helped it gain traction, says CEO and Co-Founder Sam Yagan.

When giants like them see a company in their space gaining traction, it can go both ways.

Given that Airtime never gained any traction as a social networking site because its users can not remain anonymous, it came as a shock to loyal fans when Chatroulette announced multiple changes that have essentially eliminated user anonymity.

Even if (read: when) The Miracle Season fails to gain traction at the box office, it will surely make back every penny of its budget through product placement alone.

When Anna Kendrick threw out the idea of playing Squirrel Girl in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she probably didn't expect the idea to gain so much traction so soon.

«Art works at its best when it's closest to failure,» he told the crowd of «Water,» a film that struggled to gain traction in the studio system and that for a long time nobody wanted to make.