(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.
Lustre
Definition:
(n.) Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter.
(n.) Renown; splendor; distinction; glory.
(n.) A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character.
(n.) The appearance of the surface of a mineral as affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its reflecting qualities.
(n.) A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.
(n.) A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, -- used for women's dresses.
(v. t.) To make lustrous.
(n.) Same as Luster.
Example Sentences:
(1) Disney's new chief executive, Bob Iger, has wasted no time restoring some lustre to the Magic Kingdom.
(2) When that lustre goes, however, we're just left with a large, unpleasant shop.
(3) The once pristine Boulevard Mobutu has lost its lustre.
(4) The macular changes consisted of an orange-like ophthalmoscopic appearance and a decreased macular lustre.
(5) The prime minister's officials played down the significance of the decision, which has taken some of the lustre off his coup of becoming the first European leader invited to Washington for talks with Obama since his inauguration in January.
(6) But has Frances botched her chances with lack-lustre flavour?
(7) For Max Hastings, as for Gove, the looming threat of a German Europe justified Britain's cause in the first world war and gives undying lustre to our boys' sacrifice in the trenches.
(8) Natalie Maines and the sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison have the lustre of women raised on healthy diets and quality grooming products.
(9) He may lack broadcasting experience, but his successful transformation of a much-loved British brand that had lost its lustre is seen by some as providing the perfect template for an ITV renaissance.
(10) During the long period when Caravaggio’s name had lost its lustre, many of his paintings found themselves reattributed to these Utrecht painters and vice versa: at some point 70% of the paintings in the National Gallery exhibition were said to be by Caravaggio.
(11) As a direct ingredient it would be easy to identify, but unfortunately mica remains as part of a complex mix of materials that are used to make colour pigments and lustres.” Boyd says the company has not knowingly purchased any materials containing natural mica since 2014.
(12) While the theory runs that the No 7's disquiet is due more to pay-rise jockeying than a love deficit of the Bernabéu, his performances have not lost lustre despite Madrid's poor start to La Liga.
(13) With 3D tickets costing on average 30% more at Odeon and Vue cinemas than other films, and with the added cost of glasses, which small children and those who wear contact lenses and spectacles often find uncomfortable, the format is losing its lustre.
(14) A method for tooth surface lustre measurements with a scanning reflectance sensor system is described.
(15) However, the Gujarat model begins to lose its lustre if you look at other development indicators.
(16) There are policies aplenty but the issue is how they hang together and whether Miliband possesses the strategic skills and has sufficient supporters, including among the Blairites and trade unions, as well as the personal lustre to deliver at a price the electorate is willing to pay.
(17) Pyne said on Wednesday the changes would add “lustre” to the parliament.
(18) Equally, his distinctive voice added lustre to the TV version of Animal Farm (1999), as Boxer.
(19) (5) Clinically the non-gamma2 amalgams are remarkable for superior marginal integrity and, seemingly, also for improved persistence of surface lustre.
(20) Erdoğan is regarded as having lost much of his international lustre.