Sentences with phrase «idea gaining traction»

Indeed - Mutuallism is to be the subject of a SpeakEasy on 17th February in fact, and is an idea gaining traction amongst British libertarians.

As the idea gained traction and exposure, a string of ambitious ecocity projects were announced — intelligently designed ecological cities that would revolutionize the way we thought about the environments in which we dwell.

As the idea gained traction and exposure, a string of ambitious ecocity projects were announced

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A 2017 survey from the air travel site Airfwarewatchdog found that a little over half of respondents believe families with children aged 10 and under should have to sit in a designated section apart from other passengers, and the idea of separating children and adults has gained traction on Reddit, where threads with titles like «Would you pay extra for a child - free flight?

All throughout the B2B industry, the idea of rallying around your customers, making them heroes, and investing in customer success continue to gain traction.

As Matousek reports, the idea of airlines introducing «child - free zones» is gaining traction.

The idea started gaining traction among innovative B2B marketing and sales leaders, so in 2015 we ended up hosting three events in Atlanta, Boston, and Chicago.

«The idea of making stores smaller and more efficient is gaining traction and we are further down that road than our competitors,» says Mansell.

The idea that companies and society at large would benefit if everybody knows what everybody else is earning has been gaining traction recently, helped along by the availability of such information on websites such as Glassdoor.com, PayScale.com, and Salary.com.

Rather, they are focused on ideas that can «gain the most bipartisan traction,» according to a spokeswoman for the chairman.

Though the European Central Bank head has rejected Estonia's idea, the country's attempt shows that ICOs are gaining traction worldwide.

The technology has struggled to gain traction but that hasn't stopped companies from pushing the idea hard.

But with Yahoo closing in on $ 1.1 billion in sales for 2000, nearly twice as much as in 1999, the idea gained little traction.

The idea failed to gain traction then, but now a number of prestigious researchers are studying the potential therapeutic uses of LSD, psilocybin and MDMA.

We've all heard the story: You've got a great idea for the next billion dollar company and maybe even some respectable domain expertise to back it up, but you need a prototype built in order to gain traction and attract investors and you have no idea how to code it yourself.

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.

Whenever a new business gains explosive traction, whether it's virtual reality, peripheral - based music games or toys - to - life, skeptics - sometimes reasonably, sometimes unreasonably - apply the idea of a «bubble» that's bound to pop, sending that new business into a nosedive.

At the moment Finland, the Netherlands and Canada are planning tests of the UBI (in the case of the latter, the province of Ontario will be pilot testing a UBI in an unnamed region this fall) and the idea is gaining traction in Britain as well.

One of those ideas was Project Loon, which, while not posting any revenue yet, has gained some impressive traction with telecom partnerships globally.

The ideas of Schechter and Kaplan gained considerable social traction following the horrors of the Holocaust and the Jewish migration to America after the Second World War.

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.

On the other side of the table and a major opponent to the proposed bill is the American Beverage Association (ABA), which has called it «an old idea» that always fails to gain traction.

In January 2013 the non-governmental organisation Sustain, supported by 61 health organisations, called for a 20 pence per litre excise duty on sugar sweetened drinks.4 In February, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges called for a 20 % tax on sugar sweetened drinks as part of its enquiry into clinical and public health solutions to the obesity epidemic.1 Although the UK government has indicated a preference for voluntary approaches to the control of obesity, it has not ruled out fiscal measures.14 Clearly, the idea of a sugar sweetened drink tax is gaining traction in the UK, but its effect on health remains uncertain.

Green Party councillor Isabelle Mayor said the idea of a city - wide day without meat had gained little traction at the time, but that things had changed in recent years.

A spokesman from the American Beverage Association called the tax in DeLauro's bill «an old idea» that has repeatedly failed to gain traction at the state, local or federal levels.

But as much as I, too, support this idea, I don't believe it can gain widespread political traction in this country, at least for the foreseeable future.

The idea of a remaking of Ukraine's constitutional order along federal lines is beginning to gain traction.

I'm not sure if these ideas have any traction in the Labour party, but they're gaining increasingly widespread acceptance in the Lib Dems (at least amongst the opinion - forming bloggers, for whom LVT is a common debating point).

The state floated the idea of combining services at Interfaith and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center during Interfaith's bankruptcy, but the idea never gained traction, in part because it was too rushed and in part because it only solved one piece of a much larger problem.

A controversial idea is gaining traction in Buffalo as a means for improving education for city students.

The idea came up in talks as recently as Wednesday, sources said, but it's unclear if it gained any traction.

The idea is gaining traction nonetheless.

As the idea of Theresa May entering the departure lounge gains some traction in Westminster, one...

As the idea of Theresa May entering the departure lounge gains some traction in Westminster, one ambitious Conservative MP has acted decisively to remove an old skeleton from his closet.

With the city's subways in crisis — with daily delays increasingly common and its equipment in dire condition — Cuomo, who once doubted that congestion pricing would gain any traction in the state, is planning to resurrect the idea and will expend political capital to see it succeed.

But the idea has not gained much traction.

In the pre-election period the Maude agenda to radically reshape Whitehall promised much - but it has taken almost half this Parliament to gain traction with its basic idea - that elected politicians should be running the show and civil servants are there to work at the pleasure of the administration they «serve»

Other changes were mostly retreads of past ideas that had failed to gain traction in the Legislature.

The idea that Apatosaurus might have used its tail like a bullwhip — to scare off predators, communicate or even show off for potential mates — gained traction about 20 years ago.

While Duarte's idea has yet to gain traction in the paleoanthropological world, it's just one of several new directions ochre research is taking.

As scientists, clinicians and industry leaders study these fascinating but controversial mind - altering practices, one thing is clear: The idea of applying an electrical current to the scalp to boost learning or treat medical conditions in the comfort of one's own home is gaining traction.

This view that the brain is responsible for every aspect of our physical and mental lives has gained traction among neuroscientists, but the idea of the self as brain has also encountered resistance.

Preservationists called for changes and began to float the concept of underwater museums as a way to protect wrecks and keep artifacts in place, but the idea didn't gain real traction until the passage of the Abandoned Shipwreck Act in 1988.

Although the FDA has not formally proposed any such change, the agency's cancer czar, Richard Pazdur, floated the idea at a public conference on cancer care earlier this month in Washington, D.C., suggesting the idea may be gaining official traction.

But the idea is gaining traction, she said.

A third idea that is gaining traction promises to remove heat more aggressively than metal tubes and more efficiently and quietly than fans: a pump uses an oscillating diaphragm to quickly push jets of air over the source of the heat.

However, that idea never gained traction in 2008 and 2012, and Otto admits there's no reason to expect it to fare any better in 2016.

The inefficient technique won't supplant traditional mining, but the idea of using microbes as production facilities for a range of rare and difficult - to - produce materials has been gaining traction over the past several years.