We are encouraged to leave our cars at home, but many passengers feel trains are becoming an increasingly unattractive alternative.

A 1966 plan described the area as one of "small businesses in older buildings, declining employment and an increasingly unattractive environment."

But Mr. Perot's style of fighting proved ineffective and, to many, increasingly unattractive.

A couple of hours and a few beers later, the prospect of waking up at 5am and queuing for two hours looked increasingly unattractive.

Such stern dealing with known addicts, combined with the drug's greatly increasing scarcity (and accompanying soaring prices) made experimentation increasingly unattractive.

Those changes made further investments in the mill look increasingly unattractive.

An ageing bus fleet, some of which had been in service since the 1940s, made the service increasingly unattractive.

As fossil fuel generation becomes less attractive it will be increasingly unattractive to exceed a carbon cap because the financial disincentive will grow via market forces.

As a result, working families began to find public housing increasingly unattractive.

Thus, with each page, she becomes increasingly unattractive and vainglorious - brains and spirit corrupted by driving ambition.