The phrase "attract away" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you want to describe the action of drawing someone or something away from a particular place or situation, but it is not commonly used.
Example: "The bright lights of the city tend to attract people away from the quiet countryside."
Alternatives: "draw away" or "pull away".
Sodium citrate is an acid that will attract away those calcium molecules, leaving the proteins free to do their thing.
The former may be hard to attract away from the holy SoMo trinity of Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp, so that leaves the latter group.
But while the needs of the real campesinos living along the railway are going ignored, hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on a high-speed train network for the notional people whom the government hopes one day to attract away from Venezuela's urban, industrial heartlands.
One, William Baumol, a professor at New York University, argued that the "availability of lucrative positions in the governmental bureaucracy serves to attract away many individuals with entrepreneurial talent from roles that could contribute to the economy's production".He has a point.
If China Telecom has an exclusive head start on iPhone 5, it could attract away some subscribers hungry for the device.
"The real intangible assets are the chefs and the good ones get attracted away very quickly.
She's the daughter of a soldier who they attracted away from the western lifestyle.
From below, low-cost makers from China, such as Xiaomi, and new European brands, such as Wiko, are attacking Samsung's market, attracting away price-conscious customers.
Leahy reported what nobody else dared to: that the younger guys widely resented Jordan, for reasons that went beyond the attention and praise he attracted away from them.
They also are more mo bile, can be attracted away from another company and can be more independent in their job, which means many of them are more outspoken and courageous, Mr. Williams said.
When this gig was scheduled, how could anyone have been expected to know that an exclusively student audience might have their attention attracted away from matters comedic in the summer term?
