Sentences with phrase «much traction of»

and if writers can not get paid — one way or another — using our «open silo», it will not get much traction of consequence as long as writers expect / hope / dream to be paid for e-books.

I was chatting with my colleague Nancy Marmolejo about how she was getting so much traction of Facebook.

Not exact matches

A monitor in the centre of the room acts as a digital scoreboard, ranking staff in real time on the quantity of articles they've written, the amount of online traction their work is getting and how much it's being shared on social media.

«We had this four - month window to build as much traction as we could, and then we'd stand the company in front of investors and try to raise money,» he recalls.

There have been signs of traction already: General Electric, an AWS customer, has been a presence at this conference for a few years now, and companies don't get much bigger than that.

While Apple is said to have floated this kind of offering in the past, with a $ 30 per month service in 2009 that didn't get much traction, the tech giant has largely stuck to developing its $ 99 TV box.

Google has finally decided to «pivot» — i.e. discreetly bury — the tenacious zombie that is Google +, dismembering a behemoth project that never as a singular thing got much traction in apparent hopes of salvaging the few aspects of the social network that did work.

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.

Please, for the love of god, open up Frugal Wonderful anyway — it would be the best damn satire blog ever and would actually probably get so much traction it's unreal.

Tom Angell, of the pro-marijuana legalization group Marijuana Majority, said in an email that «while most of our federal gains to date have been through amendments attached to much broader spending bills, I'm hopeful that with the growing number of states changing their laws these stand - alone bills [like Garrett's] will get enough traction to at least finally start getting hearings.»

«We're in a world where monetary policy has much less traction,» Charles Bean, deputy governor of the Bank of England, said from the audience.

Your initial email should include a brief overview of the business, telling us in no more than one page about: - Your technology, any IP, and why it's better than the competition - Traction so far / planned route to market and your business model - Team - Funding until now, how much you're raising and at what valuation - Whether you envisage further funding rounds being necessary in the future You can include links to a business plan or any other documents with the email if you wish.

«That will give you a very, very good sign of how much staying power and how much traction there is.»

The extended sideways action of the market on low volume has made it very difficult to gain traction from any specific theme, much less from general areas of favorable valuation or market action.

And I'm sure there were hundreds, if not thousands of books throughout history that had alternative views that never got much traction.

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.

It is no wonder that this type of thing gains so much traction in the U.S., after all the U.S. doesn't even rank in the top 10 of global academic achievement.

Despite her persistence, her parenting via fearmongering was one of the reasons turmeric didn't originally gain much traction in our household; was it really turmeric milk that prevented me from getting the flu for over a decade, or a hypochondriac's adherence to an annual flu shot schedule?

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.

It's hard to predict how much political traction Noem's bill will attain, though I did note in the Civil Eats piece that it already has the endorsement of the National School Boards Association and the School Superintendents» Association.

Best of all, the rubber outsole provides great traction much like a sneaker, making these sandals ideal for wearing poolside, through the airport, for weekend excursions, and even at the theme parks.

Bouncing up and down in a wrap with this much grip kept the back pass stable against the traction of her clothes but with enough bouncing she did manage to compromise her seat.

Senate Democrats unveiled a package of measures designed to reform campaign finance laws and how lobbying is done — measures that have failed to gain much traction in their chamber.

I must admit, it stretches incredulity that Labour should get all worked up about a politician «lying» - this is not to defend Hague from what he may or may not have done, but to point out that there is an (ever - present) case of Pot Kettle Black here, for which reason the narrative is unlikely to gain much traction beyond titillating SW1 and its acolytes.

The GOP was becoming a party of guns and the God - fearing, neither of which had much traction among Yankee Republicans, or what was left of them.

Perhaps, as some of its ideas become grounded in such movements, they will find the political traction they lacked for much of the twentieth century.

But that measure never gained much traction in the Legislature before the end of session.

That seemed like the most quixotic of quests, and Samuels» argument that a primary fight would make Duffy a better candidate didn't seem to gain much traction.

To summarize, then, my interest in migration and the political is as much about forms of power in relation to which actions gain political traction as about the action itself.

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.

It is true that Atiku's ambition and the traction it seems to be gaining may truly have brought the storm home much earlier than expected, but the Atiku challenge is merely a token of the series of turbulence that the APC invited on itself and should prepare for.

But the measure so far has not gained much traction in the Senate, which is controlled by a coalition of four Democrats and Republicans.

(The NRCC has tried to make an issue of the ties McMahon and other Democrats have to Global, which recently settled with AG Andrew Cuomo in his ongoing pay - to - play pension fund probe, but that effort hasn't gotten much traction).

Furthermore, it's not clear whether such efforts could achieve much traction, since much of the Conservative Parliamentary Party no longer believes in nation - building in Afghanistan, if it ever did.

Getting attention, much less traction, made for a long, lonesome 2017 for the men who would unseat incumbent Republican John Faso of Kinderhook.

While the idea of merging the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County isn't getting much traction, a special legislative committee has begun work that could lead to some other kinds of government consolidation.

Giambra, a former Democrat who failed to garner much traction with Republican and Conservative Party leaders in the state, left open the possibility of running on the Reform Party ballot line, created in 2014 by then - GOP nominee Rob Astorino out of opposition to the Common Core education standards.

One of the cornerstones of the Labour manifesto was nationalisation — there is now much more favourable traction to this — state ownership can mean effective management.

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»

«Gillibrand still hasn't gained much traction even after one year in office,» states Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion.

Much of the focus of these side events has been on ways to ratchet up ambition, either through more private - sector engagement or through an emphasis on gaining more traction for a long - term goal of containing warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius below preindustrial levels, rather than the «well below 2» threshold enshrined in Paris.

After showing how the «skills gap» originates in company policies, Why Good People Can't Get Jobs explains why «the skills gap argument has gotten so much traction, and the actual causes of the supply - demand job mismatch are so poorly understood.»

Let's face it, much as you may love your stilettos (or maybe just the idea of them), unless you're going to be a sitting - on - the - sidelines, too - cool - for - school mom, you need some sensible shoes from time to time, and that includes toasty winter boots with good traction.

With 700 grams of down insulation and Ice Pick temperature - sensitive pods that increase traction, no one can possibly doubt your commitment to winter fun, and, as Shana noted, they still manage to look cute with her much - touted skinny jeans.

When I first wrote about my Book of Positive Aspects in September of 2017, I didn't know that it would pick up very much traction and that people would be interested... View Post

There is no question that liquid lipsticks have become among the most talked about lipstick formulas to adorn the lips of beauty editors, bloggers and It - Girls, but the one that isn't being talked about as much as it should be is Lipstick Queen's Liquid Lipstick — that was, incidentally, around before the trend gained such traction.

One of my personal favourites, though yet to pick up much traction in London, Spark works on bluetooth so you can use it underground.

Samuel Goldwyn Films manages to take much of the art out of the arthouse, with few of its indie films gaining any sort of traction with critics.

«Funcom has gone through some challenging times in recent years and seeing the game we have poured so much time and effort into gain this amount of traction so quickly is very invigorating for everyone who works here.

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.