Instead of attracting customers, it can put them off.
"Maybe that's supposed to scare away all the pigeons, instead of attracting them?" she said.
Instead of attracting tourists, officials said, it has become a prime location for trash dumping.
Yet instead of attracting a younger, more open-minded demographic with these changes, the Episcopal Church's dying has proceeded apace.
Instead of attracting investment and talent to the northern regions, he said, HS2 may simply funnel more people and prosperity into London.
But instead of attracting the stakeholders interested in negotiating multipollutant legislation, the Bush administration has alienated many by handing out gifts of deregulation to utilities and their friends.
But if MedSanChast has a capitalist mindset, its heart and mission remain thoroughly Russian: instead of attracting more paying patients, the hospital plans to raise prices.
The Forum has evolved over time, discarding the subscription approach to simplify scheduling and lessen the temptation to appeal to established audiences instead of attracting new ones.
Instead of attracting dipolar water molecules around them, anions tend to break up the hydrogen-bonded structure of liquid water, with the result that the bigger they are, the more difficult it is for them to enter the water.
Perhaps this was because the two most frequent compliments he received from both his critics and his peers — that he was a "writer's writer" and a "Southern writer" — deterred readers instead of attracting them.
