6 sentences with “boost”

The ordinances were intended to prepare land for sale to citizens and to raise revenue to boost the republic's failing economy.

Now, against all expectations, he had become a father. "The responsibility for that tiny creature gave him a great boost," said his wife.

Decades after the war, the French received an unexpected boost to their fortunes thanks to the intervention of one of France's own future patrons: Joan of Arc.

In an attempt to boost revolutionary morale after the British captured New York City, he launched surprise attacks against British forces in their winter quarters.

Tariffs, which both Clay and Adams promoted, were not a novel idea; they had been seen since the birth of the republic as a way to boost domestic manufacturing by making imports more expensive.

Another boost to Putin's popularity came from Russia's invasion of the tiny republic of Georgia in 2008 and, especially, its invasion and subsequent annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. While the latter provoked Western sanctions and protests, it succeeded in propping up Putin's power in Russia itself.