As confidence returns, even a small reversal in this trend would give spending a fillip.
The rickety state of the public finances also argues against a big fiscal fillip.
Flintoff's return will give England a significant fillip ahead of the first 50-over match in Guyana.
Acquisitions of British companies by overseas investors have given the pound an extra fillip.
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Despite the fillip from the temporary reduction in value-added tax, consumer spending will fall sharply.
It would be great for Welsh rugby and a nice fillip I suppose for the Six Nations.
And then a European issue popped up, as the campaign ended, which gave Mr Aho a fillip.
If interest rates ever levitated again, their investment portfolios would experience rising investment income, a sizable earnings fillip.
They're blessedly free of corporate branding, except for the trademark Heavenly beds, a fillip of standardization I appreciate.
If the left does well, capturing for example Lyon, Mr Jospin's presidential prospects will enjoy a timely fillip.
It's the likes of the Greens and UKIP that are getting a fillip.
He called on the WLGA to introduce a "living wage" that would "give a fillip to the local economy".
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This could prove a fillip for Mr Barak's peace hopes, since Rabbi Yosef is a consistent and committed dove.
If it fell, it would be a big fillip for the new president.
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Aid has also strengthened institutions such as parliament, has given a fillip to civil society and has helped facilitate elections.
Nolan's box office figures have been achieved without the financial fillip of 3D cinema screenings, which incur a higher ticket price.
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And the "European Soyuz" should be a fillip for Arianespace, the company set up to market and operate the Ariane rockets.
Throw in another 5% fillip from weak dollar comparisons for the multinationals.
European investors are taking a bigger bite out of dim-sum bonds, giving a fillip to the swelling offshore market in China's currency.
United received a further fillip when new signing Javier Hernandez scored a somewhat fortuitous goal after coming on as a half-time substitute.
In addition, a rash of mergers boosted the British stockmarket and attracted foreign capital, giving the pound an extra, albeit temporary, fillip.
Should that come about, it would give a sharp fillip to reform.
It took the advent of software piracy and the birth of "intellectual property crime" to add a fillip to international efforts against counterfeiting.
The holding of local elections in the area in March for the first time in 14 years was a fillip for the government's self-confidence.
It received a fillip in 1492, when European explorers introduced their livestock, grain, fruit and vegetables into the new world and took away equivalent novelties.
And politically the result will provide an important fillip to Labour.
Cook has the ideal platform to register his first century of the season, the perfect fillip ahead of the first Test at Lord's on 6 May.
But the biggest fillip, says Colin Craig of MerchantBridge, an investment bank, will be implementation of a new Saudi capital market law that will make listing easier.
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