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Around 800 A.D., people in Central Asia managed to develop a new kind of carrot—a purple carrot—that attracted more interest from international traders.

It is not likely to attract lots of investors and nerds.

The radio business has changed greatly and now attracts more listeners.

The importance of non-financial firms will accordingly rise, along with their ability to attract the best talent.

: What attracted the man to Nottingham University?

To attract the attention from the media.

But if aging were recognized as a disease, he said, "It would attract funding and change the way we do health care. What matters is understanding that aging is curable."

Somewhat nostalgically, he quotes John Maynard Keynes' justly famous words of praise to the bookstore: "One should enter it vaguely, almost in a dream, and allow what is there freely to attract and influence the eye."

The health secretary said that the government already has plans to attract a more varied workforce into nursing.

The world is dotted with futuristic, high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest international companies.

They are not attracted to the rubbish dumps on their migration routes.

Landfill sites on the Iberian Peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara Desert to the western Sahel.

It also adds the element of artistic creativity to attract a new pool of students who may not see themselves as math people.

Elite high school math competitions are attracting more interest throughout the United States.

Teachers need to be much better paid to attract the best college graduates to the nation's worst schools.

It helps attract investments in the company.

They do not attract the media attention the high-risk group does.

They attracted a lot of smokers.

By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.

One reason any campaign wants a popular celebrity spokesperson is because kids are attracted to them no matter what they are doing.

The power of such simple psychology in fighting climate change is attracting attention across the political establishment.

Migrants to cities are attracted by plentiful jobs, access to hospitals and education, and the ability to escape the boredom of a farmer's agricultural life.

His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes cities into the engines of art, commerce, science and progress.

They competed with one another to attract more customers.

In 2007, 623,805 of the world's brightest students were attracted to American universities.

Campuses willing to adopt convenient schedules along with more focused, less-expensive degrees may find that they have a competitive advantage in attracting bright, motivated students.

It is our responsibility to reach out and attract students to come to our kinds of places," he told a NEWSWEEK reporter.

Attract people to America's national parks.

Parking rates will be attracted about $400 monthly or $25 per day, according to Ari Milstein, the director of planning for Automation Parking Systems, which is the U.S. subsidiary of a German company.

It has attracted a lot of users

It has attracted worldwide attention.

What attracts people most in the Stray during the spring time?

: What attracted the man to Nottingham University?

Lower their prices to attract more customers.

Speak loudly enough to attract attention

By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.

The quite dramatic unemployment figures, which we now see in some of the countries, strongly suggest that there will be greater pressure on wages in the future, as more people will be unemployed, more people will be looking for jobs and the pressure on em

These 18-hour cities are beginning to make waves in real estate rankings and attract more real estate investment.

A railway link to Amsterdam in 1874 attracted rich traders from Amsterdam to Hilversum.

Any smell might attract natural enemies that would try to eat the little comforting pats.

Both the hand movements and the very idea of communicating without speaking attracted me.

California condors attract researchers' interest because they almost died out in the 1980s.

California condors attract researchers' interest because they had to be bred in the wild.

China today attracts a worldwide readership, which shows that more and more people all over the world want to learn about China.

Even the youngest children in the class were attracted by the story.

In ancient Egypt, a shopkeeper discovered that he could attract customers to his shop simply by making changes to its environment.

It attracted a large number of visitors.

It's partly true that Dickens' style of writing attracted audiences from all walks of life.

Once called the garden of Amsterdam, it still attracts travelers to come over to cycle and walk through the surrounding forests.

People believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands, commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain.

Sports team owners spend millions of dollars attracting top talent.

The concert was broadcast live and attracted the largest one night audience in the history of television up to that time.

The happy ending of the story attracted him.

They organized photo trips to attract more youngsters.

They pump out perfumes designed to attract different insects who are natural enemies to the attackers.

This creation attracted a lot of attention thanks to its mixture of modern and traditional Chinese elements.

To select volunteers, you may need to understand the motivations of the people you wish to attract.

You have probably heard that opposites attract but that similarities attract, too.

You may find that your child is attracted by one more than another.

"Young birds are often attracted to the warm road surface and get killed by the traffic." Biology student Hannah tells the broadcaster.

And, unless banks carry toxic assets at prices that attract buyers, reviving the banking system will be difficult.

However， Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind， and while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone， in reality we are continually faced with a question： “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that？ ”Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire， Allen concluded ： “ We do not attract what we want， but what we are.

If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are to succeed, they must first change the relationship between America’s oldest orchestra and the new audience it hops to attract.

Bankers’ fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.

If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are to succeed, they must first change the relationship between America's oldest orchestra and the new audience it hopes to attract.

When women do break through to the summit of corporate power—as, for example, Sheryl Sandberg recently did at Facebook—they attract massive attention precisely because they remain the exception to the rule.