Antonyms
Examples for "traction"
Examples for "traction"
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Hospital and union officials both said negotiations gained traction during the week.
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Similar legislation has already gained some traction in the House of Representatives.
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The renminbi is also gaining traction among financial institutions and global companies.
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About a year in, the site started to gain traction among influencers.
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I'm not sure Hillary's campaign will get much traction on it, however.
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He conjectures, for example, how saltation and orthogenesis might jointly explain phyletic sequences of limb rudimentation:
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He then summarizes Mivart's structuralist alternative, describing first the claim for channeling, and then the argument for saltation.
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That moral saltation is very necessary to political success at Leaplow, and quite probably in many other places.
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Its characteristic dunes and ripples are the kind formed by sand particles taking short wind-borne hops, a process called saltation.
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The existence of a few intermediary species shows that the full sequence proceeds by punctuational steps and not by full saltation.
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He was no tumbler, and he had sent for a master of political saltation, who had just been with him practising.
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Insufficient variation stalls natural selection; saltation deprives selection of a creative role but still calls upon Darwin's mechanism as a negative force.
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Mivart faces these difficulties along the standard structuralist route, by calling upon the other concept so often twinned with claims for saltation: internally channeled change.
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Microevolutionary saltation also scales as punctuation-sothe distinction between saltation and standard allopatry becomes irrelevant for punctuated equilibrium, since both yield the same favored result!
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We can identify several pure channeling theorists-biologists ,whoextolled directional variation, but supported gradualism and rejected saltation (several orthogeneticists fall into this category).
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Saltations could not be banished or denied, but only declared unimportant in evolution.
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Saltation and channeling march in tandem throughout his argument, and the entirety builds a satisfying version of the full formalist critique.
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"You will never be an adept in political saltation, John!"
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He conjectures, for example, how saltation and orthogenesis might jointly explain phyletic sequences of limb rudimentation:
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He then summarizes Mivart's structuralist alternative, describing first the claim for channeling, and then the argument for saltation.
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That moral saltation is very necessary to political success at Leaplow, and quite probably in many other places.