Sentence examples for attract official from inspiring English sources

And no wonder, considering how widespread tax evasion and dubious dealings are here: few people want their lifestyles to attract official attention.

On the Nepalese side of the border, the track was hardly fit, even for an S.U.V. Besides, the party had no permit to drive their vehicle in Nepal, and they did not want to attract official curiosity.

With the area struggling to attract officials to govern, there is no reason for the insurgents to abandon the strategy.

Any body receiving western funding attracts official displeasure.

Vietnam's human rights and religious practices also attracted official criticism.

It shows how plotters can construct powerful bombs without attracting official attention.

Non-Muslim worshipers who engage in overt religious activity that attracts official attention risk arrest, lashing and deportation.

"The pictures of those meetings dragged Wang Lin into the limelight, and then the publicity became fatal when it attracted official attention," said Sima Nan, a media commentator in Beijing who has denounced Mr. Wang.

Ag-ho-ho-ho-ry!: And Richard's Bohemian Rhapsody tribute in this week's paper has now attracted official approval.

Transport historian Christian Wolmar considers it "almost impossible to exaggerate the high regard in which LT was held during its all too brief heyday, attracting official visitors from around the world eager to learn the lessons of its success and apply them in their own countries".

Already hailed by government specialists as a pioneering innovation in across-the-board, eye-on-the-sparrow management, CitiStat is attracting officials from other cities and counties to the sessions here in which municipal managers, harried or not, must return every two weeks for a fresh round of accountability.