Sentence examples for geared to attract from inspiring English sources

The airport bombing — at a glittering showcase facility on the eve of President Dmitri A. Medvedev's speech at the World Economic Forum — appears specifically geared to attract global attention.

Many expected the family-movie streak to cool with the arrival in force of films geared to attract Oscar nominations in the first months of the year and with children back in school.

Under the Hartz-Forest Ratner plan, called Expo Park, the arena would become a 500,000-square-foot convention center geared to attract visitors from across the country, said Emanuel Stern, the president of Hartz.

In addition Postmasters' roof has been turned into a kind of open-air urban laboratory where birds can alight and sample different kinds of human fare, from vegan to fast food, amid plant life both native and exotic and in an environment geared to attract many different species.

She has also tried hiring a fetching woman to stroll along the sidewalk in front of the restaurant and give away cups of cold borscht, a gesture geared to attract walk-in business to a restaurant where it was once impossible to get a reservation.

It is not a country yet geared to attracting the global tourist dollar.

Almost overnight, the post-fees universities have become mega-businesses, geared to attracting ever-greater numbers of paying "customers" and competing against one another.

A selection of such objects will be at the China Institute Gallery in Manhattan beginning April 19 to kick off "The Year of Dunhuang," a series of events geared to attracting Western attention, and dollars.

How about issuing an HS2 railway bond offering a yield marginally above inflation-linked gilts, and geared specifically to attract pension funds starved of returns?

But it is noteworthy that a company so highly geared to fine dining can attract more than a glimpse from investors during a recession.

While such alternatives have been viewed in the past as more geared to retail investors, Mr. Hansen said in New York, their capabilities are rapidly expanding, attracting institutional investors, too.