The odd boost from caffeine is nothing to feel bad about, she adds: "It can give a temporary lift to the metabolism or mental focus.

The airlift in late June gave a temporary lift to immigration officials who had been watching with increasing dismay as Soviet Jewish immigration dropped.

Most analysts predicted that the rebuilding effort in Japan, regardless of who pays for it, would give at least a temporary lift to the economy.

Mr. Chen won a temporary lift with his handling of his 120-member economic advisory panel.

Renewed intervention by central banks gave it only a temporary lift.

Although his stay gave the young man a temporary lift, the poems still did not sell, and the young man soon died "of consumption."

The intervention by the central banks gave the dollar only a temporary lift before it fell again.

The hurricane has provided a temporary economic lift for northern Dade County.

Outside economists generally agree that the tax cuts have given the economy at least a temporary lift.

Godliman refused the biscuit and drank the tea It gave him a temporary lift.