Example collocations logo

Attract in sentence

940 examples of Attract in a sentence

A group like ISIS relies on its ability to attract young people to join its ranks, by offering frustrated individuals an ideologically charged sense of purpose.
How much space exists for populism’s further growth, and which variety – socialist or fascist – will attract the available votes?
Furthermore, in a bid to attract foreign investment, the government has announced the establishment of 14 new special economic zones.
Of course, high-profile issues that affect people’s daily lives – for example, health, education, food security, clean water and sanitation, and the environment – attract the most attention.
Similarly, Argentina's export industries were unlikely to attract investors, regardless of the fiscal deficit, given the overvalued exchange rate, low export prices, and the many foreign markets that remain closed to Argentine goods.
But, while the Arab world’s governments have reached the limits of their ability to employ more people, raise public debt, and attract outside grants, members of these countries’ political and economic elite, whom the current rentier system privileges, will likely resist efforts at substantive reform.
Just as “trending” topics in the media can come to dominate public attention, trending research areas attract the vast majority of funding.
During a crisis, these markets attract public attention and scorn, but, as the economy steadies, ordinary people lose interest, leaving the financial industry to control its own destiny with legislatures.
Likewise, the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – which the US views as a Chinese tool for challenging the existing international order – continues to attract such faraway prospective members as Canada, which applied to join in August.
As the Shanghai free-trade zone becomes a global financial hub, it will have to determine how to attract high-level factors of production.
In an effort to attract much-needed foreign capital, Najib has introduced the Goods and Service Tax (GST) and cut back on subsidies; but this has not been accompanied by fiscal prudence or effective measures to stanch the leakages from corruption and cronyism.
So companies can attract like-minded shareholders by espousing distinctive values, missions, and cultures.
The reason for this concentration at the top is obvious: the richest clubs are now able to attract the best players in the world.
The evidence suggests that other factors such as the quality of economic and political institutions are at least as important in determining how much capital a country will attract.
Also, given that 18-year olds are less skilled than average Russian workers, the military would attract better-trained and more productive soldiers, resulting in further savings.
But raising interest rates unilaterally carries serious risks, because in a demand-constrained environment, higher interest rates attract capital inflows, thereby driving up the exchange rate and undermining growth in the tradable part of the economy.
Singapore also pays its government employees well, which allows it to attract and retain top talent – and gives those whom it hires a powerful incentive to stay honest.
These parties’ economic programs are by and large pro-market, emphasizing the private sector’s role in driving growth and the need to attract foreign capital.
While the three low-cost water and sanitation interventions discussed here may not always pass a cost-benefit test, they are likely to attract investment in many circumstances, while simultaneously responding to communities’ preferences.
But so will countries’ efficiency at learning regulatory lessons, including how to design rules that attract investors, capture important segments of value chains, and secure a sufficiently large share of the gains from innovation.
To close the gap, African governments must attract more money.
In democracies, such public events involving popular religious figures are common, and politicians often enjoy the attention they attract by attending them.
Because they attract followers, governments must take them into account both as allies and adversaries.
And a comprehensive framework to establish the terms and conditions of trade and investment in specific sectors, and to attract investment, should follow.
The answer is that fiscal policy is the key tool politicians use to attract and maintain the support of a winning coalition of voters, say retirees, public employees, and middle-class homeowners, while imposing the costs on the losers.
A more robust intra-African food trade would promote economic growth, attract new investors, create jobs, and help prevent food insecurity.
And they created a special tax and migration regime to attract regional headquarters of multinational companies.
Fashionable projects such as providing laptops to pupils attract a lot of financial support, but it is not always money well spent.
Large new housing developments should naturally attract those who already have ample social connections, making it easier to kick-start more integrated communities.
And the only way to attract that foreign capital is by running massive current-account and trade deficits.
BackNext