Today's study material: Take into Account and Kickstart

Today's phrasal is take someone or something into account and take into account someone or something. It means:
To remember to consider someone or something when you are making a decision or a judgement.

I hope you'll take Bill and Bob into account when you plan the party.

I'll try to take into account all the things that are important in a situation like this.

I hope they'll take her age into account when they're judging her work. (often + that )

They took into account that he'd never been in trouble before.

Her book takes no account of (= does not consider) recent research carried out in America.

A variation of this is:
Take something into account and take something into consideration, which is similar in meaning but precisely means:
To consider something to be an important factor in some decision.

We will take your long years of service into account when we make our final decision.

You can be certain that we will take it into consideration.

Kickstart
This is a recent word, at least in its metaphorical sense, which is the second defintion, and would have to be considered slang. However, it's original meaning is:

1. to start (a motorcycle engine) by means of a pedal that is kicked downwards
2. Informal to make (something) active, functional, or productive again
n. an action or event resulting in the reactivation of something
n. kick-starter

My girlfriend helped me to kickstart this blog. It had been inactive for months before she suggested that I continue working on it.

The last example is actually a true statement about this blog.  Ha!