Newspapers had very limited funds to offer attractive working conditions or pay decent salaries to journalists.

It was evident that the prevailing working conditions were not sufficiently attractive for staff to speedily take up their assignments.

But the first step is to start to create conditions in the region that make living and working there attractive to Russians.

Of course, imposing the same investment conditions in all countries could take away the incentive to invest in the least attractive of them.

It has done this by trying to improve the policy context in affected developing countries to create conditions that would be more attractive to prospective donors.

Those are attractive odds.

It is an attractive solution at first glance, but a closer look suggests cause for serious concern.

The teacher is so attractive.

This idea is attractive at first sight. But here, too, the reference to the US experience is misleading.

Lusty beast desires attractive sincere mate.

You are very attractive in blue.

I think she is very attractive.

Elements of this vision sound attractive.

That renders it an attractive option.

The Indian economy has been growing at more than 8 annually, making it increasingly attractive for trade and investment.

Last but not least, she is attractive.

Is that person dangerous? Are they attractive?

But such apparently attractive strategies aimed at making better people turn out to be exclusionary and based on rather arbitrary testing.

At the same time, on the job training would make the program attractive to workers and to society as a whole.

This capacity remains attractive whenever a crisis strikes.

Short run stability certainly seems attractive right now.

One idea that has been mooted repeatedly in Europe is to create some European, or at least eurozone, unemployment insurance fund. This idea is attractive at first sight.

But military options are less attractive when carefully analyzed.

It s now even less attractive to watch movies there.

Of course, imposing the same investment conditions in all countries could take away the incentive to invest in the least attractive of them. But an agreement could be reached to establish categories of countries, the most important aim being to prevent dumping between countries that are at the same stage of development.

Europe didn t meet those conditions at the time it still doesn t.

Because German exports are attractive to foreign buyers at the existing exchange rate, Germany in 2009 was the world s second largest exporter (after China).

Indeed, Italy boasted the lowest deficit to GDP ratio in the eurozone, and the Italian government had no problem refinancing at attractive interest rates.

Trade in one electron microscope, at a cost of 400,000, was not sufficiently attractive for the company to attempt to change its trade policy.

The peacekeeping personnel lacked a professional career structure, and the civilians involved did not benefit either from attractive conditions of service, mobility across the United Nations system and career opportunities, or from basic services such as security provision and training.

At the end of 2012, conditions in Latin America are very different.

Deteriorating economic conditions at home implied stricter limits on American intervention abroad.

Despite these efforts, however, the living conditions at the camp remain poor.

Overtly, Russian stock valuations look attractive, but by heaping abuse on foreigners, Putin has scared them away, while Russian investors have no money at hand.

Similarly, the observation that the collection of artefacts at the Nairobi complex was too small to make the site attractive to visitors must be examined.

The bishop, then, does not strike one as an attractive man.

Hostile devices, more attractive than simple memory, can also be used.

The seeds are attractive to small finches such as American goldfinch.

The IMF would be using real resources to subsidize the market until private market makers saw it as attractive to provide those services at comparable cost.

The market for GDP linked bonds would arrive at a price that makes them attractive to investors, reflecting expectations and uncertainties about the issuing country s future.

One can t get a manicure in Amsterdam without booking an appointment two weeks in advance, but men can buy sex anytime and at an attractive price.

They struck at symbols of the prosperity that have made the Indian model so attractive to the globalizing world, a magnet for investors and tourists alike.

Ethanol prices were manipulated to make it an attractive alternative to gasoline.

Banks issue securities with attractive nominal interest rates but unknown repayment probability.

The result was a dramatic decline in America s soft or attractive power.