Sentence examples for act luring from inspiring English sources

In her presentation — "Dr. Pierre Bernard (Oom the Omnipotent) and the Clarkstown Country Club" — Ms. Gordon will follow the self-invented doctor as he tones down his act, luring Vanderbilts and Goodriches to Nyack to foot much of the bill for the country club, and eventually becoming a well-regarded bank president and philanthropist.

The commission did not use the phrase "pyramid scheme" in the document, but it did accuse the company of engaging in "deceptive and unlawful acts," by luring people with misleading promises of how much money they could make.

The assumption that classic acts will lure senior fans has proved correct; Goldenvoice is smartly acknowledging the opportunity to tap into golden-years experience seekers with disposable income.

Janelli says that wireless names can act as welcome mats, luring their beholder into a store or a discussion, or as gargoyles, patrolling a patch of virtual turf.

Both her success and her failure acted like pipe songs, luring the snakes of contempt and woman-hating from their baskets.

Asking for more money is the sort of daredevil act that sometimes lures one or two legislators but not enough of them to actually make a change.

As the alt/indie descendant of Natasha Henstridge in Species, Scarlett Johansson is initially predatory, her clipped English vowels and thousand-yard stare effectively suggesting an imitation of life, an act refined to lure male prey like the finely wound fly-fishing ties about which Stellan Skarsgård waxes lyrical in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac.

But some Jewish leaders argue that it is spiritually unhealthy to act, for the sake of luring unaffiliated Jews, as if large communal events carry no costs.

In Canada, the offence of luring criminalises the act of communicating with children via a computer system for the purpose of facilitating or committing certain sexual offences, such as sexual exploitation or abduction.

So he brought acts to his living room, luring his friends with the promise of an open bar and a friendly atmosphere.

But were these cases the planned final acts of people intent on luring police officers into shooting them, a phenomenon known in law enforcement circles and criminal justice academia as "suicide by cop"?