Sentences with phrase «little traction»

By contrast, vouchers — a favorite among conservatives — gained little traction among liberals.

It went through an independent editor that gave me primarily proofreading services but it is getting very little traction.

But it's gotten little traction until recently when both conservative and liberal economists have argued that a carbon tax could help cut the federal deficit and keep other taxes low.

Debt securities are beneficial to early stage companies with little traction and revenue, as they don't require the company to set a valuation.

So why does an idea that seems great seem to have so little traction?

Too little traction and the runner slips; too much and the runner sticks to the road, which could cause injury.

It does show — no surprise again — how little traction there is on snow and less on ice, and how much electronic aids help safety.

Not surprisingly, these measures have gained little traction over the years with the large Democratic conference in that chamber.

At 32 degrees, the tread rubber on the summer tires found on many performance vehicles become so stiff they offer little traction.

Yet with little in the way of supporting data, the prophecy gained little traction.

However, once you start sending your resume out, you might find you get very little traction.

There's very little traction on any non-iPad tablet other than the Kindle Fire.

The multi-tasking card / app metaphor should remind people of the Palm Web OS homescreen experience, though Palm's re-launch with Palm WebOS gained so little traction among the mass consumer audience that I'm not sure it's even relevant to compare it to that - people will just accept the PlayBook as having a new BlackBerry homescreen.

The reason is that the loose agglomeration of sand grains often collapses into a hole under the weight of a vehicle's wheels and provides too little traction for those wheels to roll back out.

Former President George W. Bush suggested Social Security privatization in 2004, but his ideas received little traction at the time.

As a beginner, it is best to build a portfolio of «blue chip» coins as opposed to trying to pick «the next bitcoin» among smaller coins that have so far received little traction in the wider bitcoin community.

(Their contention that New York City should become the 51st state found little traction.)

Too much torque, too much wheelspin, too little traction as the tire tread quickly absorbs the slimy brown stuff.

The Uranium One deal, which some Republicans and pundits have been pushing as a major scandal, has gained very little traction outside of the far - right echo chamber.

Foursquare also has struggled to connect with advertisers: It had no local sales team and uninspired merchant tools, and its money - generating search ads saw little traction when they were introduced.

The poll will make depressing reading for Alex Salmond, who will feel frustrated that he is getting such little traction on a central issue to voters.

Handing over household implements to toddlers and preschoolers and letting them play at working, or allowing them to lend a hand on daily tasks, generates little traction among Western parents, says psychologist Angeline Lillard of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

There was also remarkably little traction control intervention given the sandy environment, which speaks to how quickly the power is shuttled around.

Though the idea of Duchamp perpetrating such an elaborate (and quintessentially Duchampian) hoax is an appealing one, Shearer's theory gained little traction within the academic community.

As a meme, «Anthropocene» has as yet little traction in scientific circles beyond geology and environmental science, let alone the wider culture: A Google check on «anthropocene» shows 78,700 references (mainly in geoscience), while by contrast «placebo», a once - esoteric medical term now well - established as a meme, has more than 18 million (and even the freshly coined «vuvuzela» has 3,650,000).

To date, complete re-implementations seem to have gained relatively little traction among users, companies, and especially miners.

It was for this reason as well that Obama's «populist» appeal against the big banks, Wall Street, the insurance companies, and the wealthy gained so little traction.

As you say, I agree there is more to a striker than goals — but you have to say there is a certain irony though when you look at how little traction that argument gets on here when it is applied to OG.

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.

Today Google issued an update for Google Play Books, the default book reading app on its own Android devices, but an app that has little traction on iOS.

This adaptation of a novel previously adapted by Jean Renoir and Luis Bunuel suffered from mediocre reviews though, so despite playing at two ideal New York / Los Angeles theaters it found little traction.

Some non-contact ACL injuries can result from wearing the wrong kind of footwear that provides either too much or too little traction, or from an uneven playing surface, which can result in excessive loading of ligaments and muscles and may contribute to improper landing after jumping.

Hydroplaning, if the water was deep enough, and / or the tread on your tires was worn enough, the car may have been floating on a layer of water, giving the brakes very little traction.

But while officials here and in other coastal cities, many of whom attended a two - day conference on climate change last week in Fort Lauderdale, have begun to address the problem, the issue has gotten little traction among state legislators in Tallahassee.

Their stories first surfaced in the The Wall Street Journal four days before the election, but got little traction in the swirl of news that followed Mr. Trump's victory.

Catherine Loper: Cuomo's main opponent, Rob Astorino the Westchester County executive, seems to be according to your poll gaining little traction with voters.

Microsoft's Bing search engine has gained little traction in China since launching last year.

But it started to get a little traction — a couple hundred thousand users maybe — and that last year it actually started to really take off.

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.

One reason ill - mannered New Atheist attitudes gained little traction among us is that Christian theism provides a secure footing for our family in a darkening world, which, thanks to the recent proliferation of «genetics counseling» clinics in modern hospitals, is increasingly hostile toward the congenitally weak and imperfect.

Martha Burk notwithstanding, the lack of reaction to the Augusta membership of John Reed, the interim chief of the New York Stock Exchange, shows how little traction the issue now has.

Though they are very lightweight, they do nothing to improve the comfort of your toddler's ride and have very little traction.

President Donald Trump embraced legislation that would dramatically reduce legal immigration and shift the nation toward a system that prioritizes merit and skills over family ties, though the bill has gained little traction in the U.S. Senate.

But his proposals, including term limits, have gained little traction in the Assembly's Democratic majority.

Cuomo also tried to divert the city's real estate taxes to pay for transit projects, though that gained little traction in Albany and has been shelved for the moment.

A bill introduced last year gained little traction in the Legislature's higher education committees, Ferrara said.