tractions

“• End the influence of money in politics which is often the reason such common sense reforms fail to get political tractions from politicians who rely on big money contributions to get elected.”

The Huffington Post: Miles Mogulescu: The Krugman/Stiglitz Army Is on the March (and It's Too Late for Michael Bloomberg to Stop It)

“Strange how when you lived somewhere, you tended to take for granted the area's most interesting and easily available at tractions.”

Fictionaut: Dolls

“It's no coincidence that tractions systems -- trolleys, light rail, what have you -- are creeping back into existence now.”

Puppy Beat

“DEMETRIOS (ph): ... but if the party is going to move forward and to gain tractions with people, then the conversation is going to have to be more down to earth.”

CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2009

“These P2P networks appear to be trying to build a virtual gateway in which they will shave some $ from these tractions.”

Cisco to Distribute Grid Networks’ P2P Client

“Six months will simply allow the debate to lose tractions … or gain, perhaps, if the current warrantless spying issue heats up.”

Think Progress » Conservative Judge Argues Bush Adminstration Lacks Credibility

“SANDOS: Well, as you showed in the clip before, many Hispanics are Spanish speaking only, and so they don't understand the tractions when they're handed to them in English.”

CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2007

“They blew out gusts of wind, and the chill drafts made her shiver; water coalesced on the slick wingleaf surfaces and caused the bird to gain weight and lose tractions.”

Dragon on a Pedestal

“The air is exhausted with each respiration of the patient and from 50 to 200 tractions are made at each sitting.”

Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913