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How to use the word attract in a Sentence? Page #11

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Global financial investors are staying away from commodities given the fall in prices. So, Coal India and ONGC will find it difficult to attract quality investors, in the case of IOC, it is mainly a domestic retailer and has a lot to do with the domestic economy. The fall in crude prices and government decision not to charge (an) oil subsidy will make it (IOC) a better choice in the current environment.

Deven Choksey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

One, you need to see if a large retailer like Wal-Mart will come in and take up the space. Or you need to break up the space to attract tenants, it will have a dramatic impact on shopping centers. There are going to be some victims, where the space just stays empty.

One Canadian mall owner

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The reform clearly damaged France's reputation and competitiveness, it clearly has become harder to attract international senior managers to come to France than it was.

Jorg Stegemann

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They have filed 26 lawsuits, they have lost 26 lawsuits. These have really been obstructionist lawsuits by people that don’t want their views impeded on Nantucket Sound, opposite of what the wealthy folks on Cape Cod think, this will actually attract tourists.

George Bachrach

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I think the UK elections will deter people buying into UK-based businesses, they will have to be very sensitive on issues like jobs which will attract a lot of political attention in an election year.

Simon Mackenzie-Smith

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Fast food is created to attract, but everybody knows the food they order will -- in the end -- never look like the food in the advertisement's photo.

Photographer Rebecca Ruetten

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I'd imagine those kinds of businesses wouldn't attract a huge (price) multiple in today's environment, you can use carbonated soft drink volumes as a proxy for sucralose volumes and they've been falling by low single-digits for the last 12 to 24 months. So you've got a top-line volume component that's struggling and then pricing that's off 20 to 30 percent.

Declan Morrissey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Violence and segregation have hit the economy hard, muslims are stuck in camps, unable to work, and the instability has made it harder to attract vital foreign investment.

Richard Horsey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We want to attract a teenage audience. That's what we want to do. So people grow up like the guy who's 30 years old now.

Yas Marina

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Drawn To When we rest back and view the people in our lives...Those we've just met and those we've known awhile it becomes apparent that a similarity exists. It seems that as we grow thru life the names, faces, bodies change but inner substance continues. Could be that the choices we make determine whose in our lives. What we attract seems to be brought unto us via waves of thought then into physical manifestation. Adjusting our magnet could be a good thing to do. Choosing to do so gives aid to do so. Know Yer Loved, CWD

Carl DeHaven

added by Carl DeHaven618
9 years ago

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

Robert Collier

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

F. H. Bradley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If you're cheap in your dealings, you only attract a cheapskates reward.

Mike Gegelman

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The challenge is that CEOs now think like global investors, while the political leadership thinks like local civil servants. Getting the right policies to attract and develop talented labor, capital and diversify the income sources will determine the prosperity and wealth of the people of each nation.

Med Jones

added by seattle29
13 years ago

Politicians should shift their thinking from how I can balance the budget to how I can attract top global talents, businesses and investments to compete in a global economy.

Med Jones

added by seattle29
13 years ago

To attract men, I wear a perfume called ``New Car Interior.'

Rita Rudner

added by anonymous
13 years ago

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Charles M. Schwab

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We do not attract what we want, But what we are.

James Allen

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

Chinese Proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.

Shakti Gawain

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause.

Jeff Herman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract.

Robin Green

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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    living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
    A indiscernible
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