Sentence examples for alternative interests from inspiring English sources

The only locals with any fondness for Anna are Chloe (Sianoa Smit-McPhee), a young woman with alternative interests and a desire to leave for "the mainland", and Fergus (Henry Nixon), a local cop and childhood friend of Anna's.

Because most faculty members were cloned from their graduate advisers and academic research is all they know, as a group they can offer little help to someone with "alternative" interests.

These orientations at times lead people to refuse or terminate a job when it reduces the leisure time to an unacceptable minimum, or when the job hinders balanced self-realization in terms of hobbies, further education, or alternative interests.

While you don't have to continue participating directly in your partner's interests, displaying an initial interest and making it clear that you respect his or her choice will go a long way to proving that you can handle any differences between the two of you and that you won't turn alternative interests into a guilt-trip.

So, is it fair to say that the rally in junk bonds is over? A. High yield is still an asset class where you can hit a single, especially compared with alternative, interest-bearing investments.

It typically depends positively on a measure of economic activity Y and negatively on the opportunity cost of holding money i − i m, where i m is the interest on money and i is the alternative interest rate, typically government bonds.

Recently with greater focus on motion-preservation alternatives, interest in nonfusion interspinous devices has emerged.

Obama advisers including Mr. Furman, Julius Genachowski and Austan Goolsbee began soliciting input from the high-tech and alternative energy interests, including General Motors, I.B.M., Google, the Information Technology Industry Council and the electric utilities' Edison Institute.

Atlantic and National Journal also have accepted as energy event sponsors the American Lung Association and alternative energy interests.

If alternative medicine interests you at all, make sure that the physician you choose is open to exploring alternative treatments.

Mr. Maskell's Caradoc is broodingly charismatic, and he seems to repel and fascinate Aurora in equal measure, providing an alternative love interest to the rather bland Leo.