(a.) Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies.
(a.) Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing.
(n.) That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Osteoporosis and its treatment have attracted much attention in recent years, especially since the widespread recognition of its association with the menopause.
(2) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(3) In view of many ethical and legal problems, connected in some countries with obtaining human fetal tissue for transplantation, cross-species transplants would be an attractive alternative.
(4) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
(5) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
(6) Synthetic N-formylmethionyl peptides are chemotactic attractants for human polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
(7) The Chinese model of development, which combines political repression and economic liberalism, has attracted numerous admirers in the developing world.
(8) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
(9) A viral aetiology for this group of diseases remains an attractive but unsubstantiated hypothesis.
(10) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
(11) Bar manager Joe Mattheisen, 66, who has worked at the hole-in-the-wall bar since 1997, said the bar has attracted younger, straighter crowds in recent years.
(12) As for fish attractiveness, motion, freshness, size, color and species were found as important parameters in the food-preference mechanism.
(13) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
(14) His coding talent attracted attention early: a music-recommendation program he wrote as a teenager brought approaches from both Microsoft and AOL.
(15) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
(16) But it has already attracted attention for paying some deferred bonuses early in the US to avoid a hike in tax rates.
(17) Cuadrilla's admission comes after more than a fortnight's protests at the Balcombe site, which have attracted international attention.
(18) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(19) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
(20) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
Peng
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Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Rouse, 54, from Penge, south-east London, who was visiting his father at the Tower Bridge care centre in Bermondsey, said he had not been told anything about the company's difficulties.
(2) Skin tests including immediate patch test (IPT), skin prick test (SPT), or intradermal test (IT) with penicillin G(PenG) and SPT with benzylpenicilloyl human serum albumin (BPO) were done in 54 patients with history of anaphylactic reaction to penicillin or shock of unknown cause.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan arrive at London’s Heathrow airport.
(4) "We heard an explosion in the mountains first, like an eruption from a volcano," said 40-year-old Peng Guiwu, wearing a neighbour's clothes because she had not dressed when the shock hit.
(5) Like former premier Li Peng's 3m yuan (£300,000) donation to a scholarship fund, and the attendance of another elder, Li Ruihuan, at the tennis match, such forays into the public eye are intended to signal that retired leaders are still around and active, say analysts.
(6) However, a recent study by Peng et al.17 using conventionally stained material, revealed no decrease in overall SCN cell number of senescent rats.
(7) CTAB and L14 but not TCP or Tw80 potentiated the activity of PenG but not Met on strains of staphylococci.
(8) Xi’s wife, the People’s Liberation Army soprano Peng Liyuan, will reportedly serve as its artistic director.
(9) The monoclonal antibody 217c, raised by Peng et al.
(10) At examination of normal persons, the ENG registration method was compared with that of PENG.
(11) The human lipoprotein lipase gene has been recently reported to have an identical exon-intron organization containing the analogous structural domains [Deeb & Peng (1989) Biochemistry 28, 4131-4135].
(12) He boasts a ready smile and a glamorous second wife – the renowned People's Liberation Army singer Peng Liyuan.
(13) Xi, who some describe as China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao, will stay at Buckingham Palace with his wife, the singer Peng Liyuan.
(14) But Liu Peng, the president of the Chinese Olympic Committee, batted away Kazakhstan’s provocations.
(15) In this study, electro-oculographic (EOG) and photo-electronystagmographic (PENG) techniques showed that up-directed saccades were faster than down-directed ones.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge welcome the Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, at the creative collaborations event.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michael Priddis, former founder and chief executive of strategic design firm S&C and partner and managing director of BCG Digital Ventures in Asia, at 2015 Singapore Business Design Summit Photograph: Wai Peng PK: What will the jobs of the future be?
(18) We also look forward to welcoming his excellency the president of the People’s Republic of China and Madame Peng on a state visit in October.” Xi is married to Peng Liyuan, a famous contemporary folk singer in China whose profile was higher than that of her husband’s for many years.
(19) Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), Tween 80 (Tw80), a mixture of n-alkyldimethyl betaines (L14), and alpha-(2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy) propionic acid (TCP) were tested in combination with pencillin G (PenG), methicillin (Met), streptomycin (Sm), polymyxin B (PmB), and chlortetracycline (CTC).
(20) Tim Hughes is chef director at Caprice Holdings; caprice-holdings.co.uk Yong Shuang Peng’s dry-fried prawns Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer Dry-fried prawns are highly addictive – these are hot, spicy, aromatic and crispy.