Sentences with phrase «act as a magnet»

Something must change, because the current law is acting as magnet, drawing thousands of children who take the dangerous journey from their home countries through Mexico and on to the United States.

The vinegar acts as a magnet to help pull the vitamins and minerals from the bones and into the broth.

And, perhaps most importantly, there is that powerful act of Sitting that acts as a magnet drawing those I love close by for a snuggle, or a book read, or a check - in and a chat.

Assemblyman Billy Jones (D - Chateaugay) said he hoped the initiative will act as magnet for the area.

Science and technology is booming in Asia, and acting as a magnet for Asian scientists wishing to return home after training in the West — especially to China — attracted to full - or part - time positions in both academia and industry.

These animals act as a magnet for settling juvenile scallops which seek out these habitats for shelter, and to mature to adulthood.

Many of these candidates are completely hypothetical, but engineers are already beginning to shortlist those that are worth synthesizing and testing for specific applications by searching through their predicted properties — for example, how well they will work as a conductor or an insulator, whether they will act as a magnet, and how much heat and pressure they can withstand.

Metaphorically speaking, the lattice acts as a magnet for photons, extracting them (white arrow) from the light - emitting region before they can be reabsorbed.

The electron acts as a magnet during the measurement.

This controls how iron acts as a magnet, for instance.

In London, the World Rainforest Movement claimed that, far from conserving the forest, the project would act as a magnet for foreign timber and mining companies to move into the remote interior of Guyana.

Their skin is also coarse in texture, making it impossible for any animals, bacteria, or algae to latch on — unlike, say, a whale, whose skin acts as a magnet for a variety of hitchhikers.

Moreover, the undigested food acts as a magnet to fluids from our body and water is retracted into the guts.

Bentonite clay consists of negatively charged electrons, and because most heavy metals and toxins consist of positive electrons when ingested the clay acts as a magnet and binds to the toxins in the body and carries them out of the body through natural elimination pathways.

It also works wonders for the skin when applied topically: it keeps skin clear by acting as a magnet to draw dirt out of pores.

Using coconut oil as the fuel for the cleanse may add additional benefits as the oil acts as a magnet for bacteria and toxins, potentially aiding in their removal.

Bentonite clay also acts as a magnet to draw dirt from the pores.

Recent experience underscores that investing in better school leadership could make economic sense, too - not only because of what principals can do to boost instruction and student achievement, but because of how leadership can act as a magnet for drawing talented teachers to high - needs schools.

When you invest money it will act as a magnet to attract more money since your money can give more services to other people by using it.

Our attractive merchandise and graphics display act as a magnet for cat lovers at the shows!

The extra fur on their body acts as a magnet to anything they come into contact with.

Pets are masters at socializing and often act as magnets — or bridges — to other people.

Toys act as magnets.

However a short distance from the Nosara coastline sits a deep shelf which acts as a magnet to all marine species from tiny angelfish to the mighty humpback whales which can often be seen breaching.

The wrecks act as magnets and home for sea life and are usually the best dive sites for spotting Hawaiian Stingray, Eagle rays, White tip Reef Sharks and pelagic fish.

«It will also increase tourism to a city renowned throughout Turkey for its incredible local cuisine which acts as a magnet for food - lovers.

The wrecks act as magnets, becoming home to all kinds of sea life and are usually the best dive sites for spotting Hawaiian Stingray, Eagle Rays, White Tip Reef Sharks, and Pelagic fish.

There is so much to explore in Bali and its heritage, white - sand beaches and culture acts as a magnet for the tourists belonging to different parts of the world.

The game also adds a twist with the use of switches that have the ability to make the totems act as magnets.

These forms act as a magnet to which the male character, Die Man, gravitates towards, and eventually engages with, all adding to the experience of a familiar domestic world shifting towards a space that is fictional and unfamiliar.

Is content useful, for the sake of acting as a magnet for backlinks?

Plug it into your cigarette lighter, and it generates billions of negative ions that act as magnets to draw microscopic pollutants out of the air.

«When it comes to the University of Miami's presence in general, the goal is to have that act as a magnet for other companies and research teams that are looking to collaborate with the university faculty and feed off the resources that a major research institution brings to the table,» says Aaron Gordon, vice president at Schwartz Media Strategies, a spokesman for the project.

The city is hoping that the larger redevelopment projects will act as a magnet for drawing new customers, and in turn draw new retailers to the area.

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Wood explained that the lack of detention «would act as a significant magnet and pull to families from abroad».

«The end - game is for the NHS to be working hand - in - glove with industry as the fastest adopter of new ideas in the world, acting as a huge magnet to pull new innovations through, right along the food - chain — from the labs to the boardrooms to the hospital bed.»

In a magnetic material, such as iron, each atom acts like a tiny bar magnet with its own north and south poles.

If imbued with a quantum - mechanical property known as spin, individual atoms act as tiny bar magnets with north and south poles.

Small electric vehicles, guided in part by magnets embedded in the road, will act as driverless taxicabs serving 83 stations situated throughout the roughly 2.5 - square - mile city.

This chain acts as a permanent dipole magnet and is able to passively reorient the whole bacteria along the Earth's magnetic field lines.

In a magnetic substance, such as iron, each atom acts as a small, individual magnet.

Due to their spins, the electrons act as tiny magnets where their magnetic poles align with their spins.

«But a fridge magnet is able to order so as to act as a fridge magnet and stick to metals, while this one is not able to achieve this level of ordering in spite of having this magnetic structure inside, because of this frustration.»

Skyrmions, for example, are a kind of nanomagnet, composed of a spin - correlated ensemble of electrons acting as a topological magnet on certain microscopic surfaces.

This shake contains herbs that draw out old toxins, acting as a gentle scrub brush, a sponge, and a magnet to really clean out old toxic residue from the entire colon.

It is a powerful detoxifying agent considering it is very negatively charged, acting as the perfect magnet for attracting toxins, sebum plugs, blackheads, bacteria and other impurities to be escorted out of the skin.

The charcoal acts like a magnet to clean pores by drawing out and capturing deep impurities such as dirt, oil and pollution to transform your dull, tired skin into an even, radiant complexion.

In 1981 they were folded into the Chapter 2 block - grant program, but explicit federal support for magnet schools as desegregation tools resumed in 1985 with the authorization of the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic Security Act.

In another legislative victory for magnet schools, MSA worked with the National Coalition on School Diversity to also ensure that an outdated anti-busing provision from the 1970s did not prevent current MSAP grantees from using their funding for school transportation as authorized under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

This legislation will reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act also known as the No Child Left Behind Act and expand federal support for magnet programs.