"Take the matter of food", I suggested, "Certainly the rural districts offer inducements".
Certainly, which guarantees present an inducement to would-be consignors, they also represent a risk for auctioneers in the event that lots do not achieve sufficiently high prices (the consignor is paid the difference), and auction houses have tended to spread that risk around to third parties, such as collectors and art dealers.
"That might be fine in terms of a financial inducement, but that's certainly not the way to get a scientific career launched.
On the other hand, he wrote, "if suddenly every dollar of spending could be coordinated with the candidates, the inducement to circumvent would almost certainly intensify".
The threat that it presents is almost certainly manageable via a combination of diplomacy and economic inducements, a path that South Korea seems determined to pursue, despite discouragement from Washington.
His style lurches between pastiche Austen, burdened with such spry and winsome archaisms as "mightily taken", "pecuniary inducements" and "delicious intimacy", and stern literary criticism.Austen was certainly no plaster saint, and his approach is a useful corrective to the daintification of his subject in the past.
Some company executives admit privately that while they would certainly consider cash offers, they would regard a clear economic development strategy for downtown as a stronger inducement to long-term commitment.
Inducements were offered, too.
But there are other inducements.
But these inducements applied everywhere.
