Sentences with phrase «real traction»

More specifically, the rise of smartphones and streaming services, which began gaining real traction in the late 2000s.

The rest fail quickly, or struggle for years to get real traction.

Her business started gaining real traction when she started going store to store to get her tasty snack to a wider audience.

It took six months (of < 150 sales / month over 2 books and a free short story) to gain real traction.

It wasn't until the fight was brought to the outlets that sell puppy mill animals that we began to get real traction.

The PlayStation mobile solution has yet to find real traction with the consumer.

These are profound changes that have gained real traction in America's psyche, laws, and classrooms.

In what feels like an increasingly volatile climate, that some of us are surprised by and others are less so, how does Jesus» exhortation to love our enemies find real traction in our living?

The thing that really makes Android tablets compelling — and the only reason Android tablets started seeing real traction after years of almost complete dominance by Apple's iPads — is that Android tablets are available for so much cheaper than iPads.

Since then, Play - Fi has gained real traction among manufacturers, and we wouldn't be surprised to hear that it will add several more partners to its roster in the near future.

This makes exclusivity seem all the more attractive, since it takes a great deal less effort to start turning a profit, while it may be years before you start seeing real traction on a wide platform.

However, if you want real traction with your tweets, you need to leave some of those characters available for retweets and quoted tweets.

The DCCC can certainly help McMurray with that, but in New York's most Republican congressional district, he will have to prove his campaign has real traction if he wants to get significant financial backing from the national Democrats.

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.

The money ($ 1,000 - 2,000 per pupil) isn't enough to pay for actual private - school tuition, so that part isn't apt to get much real traction;

Maximum Motorsports» Torque Arm Suspension System has been around for a long time and proven very successful for Mustang owners who want real traction from a traction system.

«Until now, digital textbooks have failed to gain real traction because they add little value over the printed book,» said Matt MacInnis, Inkling's founder and CEO in an interview with Publisher's Weekly.

Bottom line: Fitbit could be a nice acquisition target — especially if it makes real traction into the healthcare system.

Merit pay gained real traction when the federal government instituted the fund that distributes awards to states and districts that create pay for performance plans in high - needs schools.

As a result of that disruption factor the historically non-dominant sector — the moderate and conservative authors started getting real traction with audiences OUTSIDE the cons for the first time.

In the run up to the 2008 presidential election (and before we could get too deep in the education work), Be the Change's first campaign, an effort to expand national and community service called ServiceNation, started getting real traction.

The title's week 1 sales are an impressive 95 % up on predecessor «Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate» as the series starts to gain real traction in the West.

But maybe, too, the counter-movement will find real traction.

If paying off debt has seemed impossible to you in the past, Kurt makes somewhat complex steps easy to tackle in order to see real traction that will change your financial life for the better.»

Bitcoin and several other Cryptocurrencies that followed are gaining real traction in the investment community.

McDonald's is also starting to get «real traction» with targeted mobile offers via its app, Kempczinski said.

Cryptocurrency - backed derivatives are beginning to gain real traction.

The questions he chose, and they were all of his choosing, predictably precluded the social, cultural, and moral issues ¯ abortion, same - sex marriage, the judicial usurpation of politics ¯ that have real traction with McCain's base.

By this point, Marvel's vision of a grand «cinematic universe» was starting to pick up some real traction, but the world - building efforts here overwhelmed the movie's more interesting ideas.

But this is to dodge the crucial question, which is precisely the question of the truth about man — the truth about the human person — on which any defense of human freedom with real traction must ultimately rest.

Liverpool have been at the centre of a number of transfer sagas this summer, with Adam Lallana's protracted move from Southampton now appearing to finally be gathering some real traction.

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.

Should Suso want to remain in Spain but would like a step up in competitive play, there might be some real traction.

With Saoirse Ronan playing the title character and Margot Robbie set as Queen Elizabeth I, long - gestating historical drama Mary Queen Of Scots is finally gaining real traction.

But it's starting to get some real traction among celebrities who have a skill, talent, or specialized knowledge that is recognized and respected by the general public.

But there has to be enough oomph of one kind or another — moral, economic, political, judicial, even occasionally (in the case of school segregation) military — behind these kinds of changes for them to overcome resistance and gain real traction.

Thus, 2017 could be the year to fetch some real traction towards gamification!

Gamification has yet to gain real traction, despite predictions that by 2015, 40 % of the world's 1,000 biggest companies would utilize some form of gamification.

Previous attempts to implement common standards indicate that such an effort could have gained real traction: Back in 2005, before the Common Core effort began, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont developed common academic standards and tests for grades three through eight and high school that showed real promise.

Samsung developed the Tizen operating system, but has yet to find any real traction in the market.

HP has since made WebOS an open source platform, but has failed to gain any real traction.

Once we let go of the old paradigm of a hardcopy world and a hardcopy economy for books, we might see some real traction on the issue of piracy.

It's important to note that Ripple has been called a «Bitcoin - killer» since at least 2014, but it's only recently that is has gained real traction and momentum among crypto - currency enthusiasts.

Watching the annual amount of dividends grow and take on real traction is an amazing observation.

IGRs basically force a synthesized hormone onto the young or unborn fleas, which messes with their genetic makeup, meaning they don't grow into healthy adults — this is absolutely key to halting an infestation in its tracks, otherwise you're just constantly fighting a battle with fully adult pests and never gaining any real traction.

Burned out and depressed, we finally saw our idea come to life and gain some real traction after two years.

Sure, Leo Burnett had a global winner with its Marlboro Man cowboy, but they had messed around with it for 7 or 8 years before it got any real traction.

I will have a few things to say about this petition, which had been in the making since december and failed to get any real traction, in the updated Dutch translation of the text that will be published this spring.