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Example sentences for: traction

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However, the majority of the Jenkins Committee's recommendations never got any "traction" to move them forward.
But she's shown absolutely no traction so far, and if the next 11 months go the way I expect for the GOP, she's gonna have to pull a rabbit out of her hat to win.
Traction forces may serve well to elongate the cell, allowing the formation of the cylindrical shape.
At anticonvulsant doses, carbenoxolone produced a hypnotic effect in the pentobarbitone sleep test and motor impairment in the rotarod test, but only at a dose of (400 mg/kg), which had anticonvulsant effect, did carbenoxolone show muscle relaxant activity in the traction test.
But it does seem telling that the Republicans' tax-cut talk is getting no real traction among the citizenry now.