Sentence examples for attracted notable from inspiring English sources

There's no question that Theranos has generated enthusiasm and attracted notable supporters.

Ms. Rommett attracted notable students from ballet, modern dance and musical theater, including Melissa Hayden and Lar Lubovitch.

Sarojini Naidu also led an active literary life and attracted notable Indian intellectuals to her famous salon in Bombay (now Mumbai).

While the conference's 140-odd participants skewed young, the gathering also attracted notable senior scholars, including some who have carried the torch for intellectual history through decades of eclipse.

Her patronage ushered in what is often referred to as the city's golden age, and resulted in a prosperous jewel box of a town, graced with palaces, which attracted notable musicians.

Her pitch line for the film — " 'The Secret' meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in a dark alley, naked" — has attracted notable figures to be interviewed, including Tom Robbins, the author of "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues".

Qatar is staking its claim to be a hugely powerful cultural capital, one that gains status points by attracting notable foreigners to its blue-chip events.

Under Ms. Whitman's management the shop had been re-organized, and, while retaining its much-vaunted higgledy-piggledy charm, health and safety regulations — including restructuring the ankle-twisting stairway to the first-floor library — were underway, and the now-regular Monday evening readings at the bookstore were increasingly attracting notable authors.

By the 18th century it had become a well-known red-light district, attracting notable prostitutes.

By the 18th century Covent Garden had become a well-known red-light district, attracting notable prostitutes such as Betty Careless and Jane Douglas.

After Badrutt's gambit, however, going to St Moritz caught on among the British upper classes, who flocked to the village of 200 residents, attracting notables including Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II (who was overthrown before he saw the magnificent palace he commissioned overlooking Lake St Moritz), Friedrich Nietzsche, conductor Herbert von Karajan and the Shah of Iran.