Sentences with phrase «gets a big boost»

A small, scrappy company in Burlingame, California, is quietly rethinking the way the car sharing industry will function in the years to come — and it just got a big boost from one of Silicon Valley's premier VC firms.

Non-energy exporters were getting a bigger boost from the exchange rate than the Bank of Canada expected in October, putting upward pressure on inflation, he said.

Case in point: Koblasa's latest start - up Ming.ly, a personal relationship manager, got a big boost by participating in the Twiistup conference.

And while the world's largest athletic - gear maker, Nike (nke), isn't a formal sponsor — it is one of the brands that gets the biggest boost from the two - week long event.

Many startup founders come to believe that the best way to get a big boost at the beginning is by becoming part of a startup accelerator.

The effort to go cage - free got a big boost at the beginning of 2014, when California officially enacted a proposition to essentially abolish the close confinement of farm animals in cages and crates.

The effort to maintain the history of the online world has gotten a big boost thanks to an anonymous Bitcoin millionaire.

Startup America, a White House partnership with AOL co-founder Steve Case and the Kauffman and Case Foundations, got a big boost today.

The Los Angeles Times is poised to get a big boost as part of its owner's latest reboot, including new overseas bureaus from Moscow to Lagos to Hong Kong.

TMAF's profile got a big boost when Burch and others from the group were part of a contingent headed by the American Trucking Associations that visited the White House last spring and invited President Donald Trump to climb up inside a cab to see what today's truck looks like.

As I write in my weekly commentary, stocks advanced on the news of quantitative easing (QE), and international markets in particular got a big boost from the event.

Bitcoin, the virtual currency, is gearing up to get a big boost thanks to Coinbase Inc., which is set to open the first - ever regulated Bitcoin Exchange in the U.S.

Psychological Warfare Operations got their biggest boost during the Cold War — and our US Gov» t frequently did indoctrination techniques on the American people.

Parental choice in general, and Catholic schools in particular, got a big boost when Mayor Giuliani of New York took Cardinal O'Connor up on his long - standing offer to accept a thousand of the poorest and most problem - ridden children in the public schools, those performing in the bottom five percentile.

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Gluten - free baking gets a big boost, with King Arthur's newest, most versatile gluten - free mix.

Mr Young said it was unclear how the US had calculated the $ US65 a tonne advantage for Australia, but there was no doubt local growers would get a big boost from the TPP.

Drink this mixture of hot tea once in a day to get a bigger boost.

We are looking much more threatening with Giroud back - Well get another big boost when Kolchelny returns - And I think we will have a good 2nd half of season -

Our lads got a big boosts from the arrival of Ozil and then Sanchez.

OT: Did Man U get a big boost in their title challenge now that it seems Aguero might be out for months with broken ribs after a car accident?

Bayer 04 Leverkusen got a big boost in their quest for a Champions League berth thanks to — who else?

Arizona could be getting a big boost with the return of linebacker Scooby Wright.

Score: 220 points (4 players) The lowdown: The Jaguars get a big boost by scoring two top - five talents with Ramsey and Jack.

As for what «we're going to have a problem» might mean, Durant told me «yes» votes on raising taxes will «definitely going to take into consideration moving forward,» which could be particularly bad for the Senate Republicans, who got a big boost from the business community — Unshackle Upstate, NFIB and the Business Council — during the 2010 elections.

ALBANY — Mayor Bloomberg's drive to end «last in / first out» protections for underachieving city teachers got a big boost in the state Senate last night with the introduction of a measure to end the union - backed practice, The Post has learned.

A Sunnyside soup kitchen got a big boost from a big box retailer this week as Target Stores donated $ 5,000 for food — a sum that would cover 25,000 meals, the kitchen's organizers said.

Erie County's Head Start / Early Head Start early childhood education program is getting a big boost from Washington.

Broadband internet is about to get a big boost in parts of central New York.

Political sites are getting a big boost from Facebook's latest tweak of its news feed algorithm, reports Jason Abbruzzese for Mashable.

Romney backers in the Empire State worry Perry's operation, which is pretty much nonexistent here, would get a big boost if Giuliani decided to throw in his lot with the Texas governor.

Perez got a big boost Thursday when Harrison — who had 27 supporters according to the AP tally — endorsed him.

Meanwhile, de Blasio's fundraising effort got a big boost when Hillary Clinton announced she would be sponsoring an event on his behalf next month.

Independents got a big boost in the unexpectedly strong victory of Ben Walsh over Democrat Juanita Perez Williams in the Syracuse mayor's race.

Attorney Marc Leavitt's campaign got a big boost from the Campaign Finance Board yesterday when he received $ 261,619 in matching funds towards his bid to unseat incumbent Helen Marshall.

Fourth - generation (4G) broadband wireless networks are a few years away from widespread use, but the technology (designed to be 10 times faster than anything available today) got a big boost Monday when Nordic telecommunications operator TeliaSonera opened up the first commercial 4G network.

Like all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake bottom.

That effort might get a big boost from a shared, inspirational goal, like putting a human on Mars on a spaceship bearing the European logo.

The marine - reserve idea got a big boost in 2000, when President Clinton issued an executive order directing the federal government to set up a system of protected marine areas, analogous to the national parks on land.

That conclusion got a big boost from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, an Australian - British project that uses the Anglo - Australian Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, to gague the motions of hundreds of galaxies per hour.

Two different approaches are driving the buzz, and one of them got a big boost in August when the Food and Drug Administration approved a «living drug» to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children and young adults who've stopped responding to chemotherapy.

Wit might also be part of Facebook's virtual reality strategy, which got a big boost last year when the company bought Oculus Rift.

Within the office, climate research would get a big boost, a 9 % increase to $ 189 million.

For example, researchers would like to know how the drug affects dystrophin production in muscles throughout the limbs and whether some muscles may get a bigger boost than others.

A major satellite program would remain roughly on track, and one climate science effort would get a big boost.

Life on Lanthanides: Wind Turbines Carbon - free electricity gets a big boost from rare earths.

The warm conditions of the earth get a big boost from water vapor as well as several other culprits, some of which never existed in the atmosphere prior to human influence.

The regions of the neocortex that map tactile sensations — probably the ruffling of hair in particular — also got a big boost, which suggests the sense of touch was vital too.

That view got a big boost in 2003 when Brown geologist Jim Head and Boston University's David Marchant showed that terrain around Arsia Mons looks strikingly similar to landforms left by receding glaciers in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica.

Claimed to be more effective than FDA - approved hormones, their popularity got a big boost from Suzanne Somer's 2006 book, Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones.