counter-attraction

Sometimes the dry season was the hindrance; more frequently residence in a town or village not close to virgin forest, and surrounded by other houses whose lights were a counter-attraction; still more frequently residence in a dark palm-thatched house, with a lofty roof, in whose recesses every moth was lost the instant it entered.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

This is unfortunate in that it could have the unintended consequence of acting as a counter-attraction to the Banyana game, which every South African should be anxious to attend, and give unqualified support to our national heroines of soccer.

ANC WISHES BANYANA BANYANA BEST OF LUCK IN THEIR FINAL 2000

A counter-attraction to the public-house, an entertainment provider of a delightful order, a club, a home, and a Bethel all rolled into one is the Soldiers 'Home, -- the greatest boon that the Christian Church has ever given to the soldier, and one which he estimates at its full value.

From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa W. E. Sellers

Even if your name was well down the list, or not yet even on it at all, a new species of keen counter-attraction was provided to the demands of war.

The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 John W. [Editor] Arthur

We silently follow the hesitating and charming movements of his little rosy-nailed hand on the silk, and we find in this so deep a charm that it needs a considerable counter-attraction to tear us away.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

What attraction and counter-attraction they must exert upon each other!

Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

Puritans, must have proved a powerful counter-attraction, and possibly it is to this rather than religious opposition that the extinction of the Miracle Play was actually due.

The Customs of Old England

He believed in providing a counter-attraction to the public house, and each Monday night, in the Bevington Hall, he provided a concert or some other kind of entertainment; giving, in the interval between the first and second part a stirring address and the temperance pledge.

The Life Story of an Old Rebel John Denvir

They laid stress on the fact that this counter-attraction was bound to hit first-class cricket hard.

The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion 1928

When one considers that a quite ordinary street-fight will attract hundreds of spectators, it will be plainly seen that no theatrical entertainment could hope to compete against so strong a counter-attraction as a battle between the German and Russian armies.

The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion 1928