It agreed with almost all of Sir Rod's recommendations, as well as with those of Sir Nicholas Stern, another luminary enjoined by Mr Brown to think great thoughts, this time about the likely economic effects of climate change.
A luminary from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy was "saddened" by all the former president's historical errors.Since some of these critics are what some would call the usual (pro-Israeli) suspects, pro-Palestinian readers may hope that Mr Carter takes on the fabled power of America's Jewish lobby.
Nowadays, the Islamic intelligentsia seems less preoccupied with the veil than with whether it is appropriate for pious female Muslims to wear G-string knickers because, as one luminary has opined, "they keep women in a permanent state of sexual arousal .None of this is likely to impress the generals, who say their views on the presidency remain unchanged.
Some fans may thrill in seeing a star player turning up for a short stint, as Ricky Ponting, an Australian luminary, is set to do for Surrey this year.
Not every Congress luminary, much less the Left Front parties that he must rely on for a parliamentary majority, is willing to champion Mr Singh's reforms.
He would invariably conduct, during the teatime interval, a rooftop interview with an aged luminary of the game.
The Broken Spoke has hosted almost every single luminary of country music and features a sawdust dance floor over which Texans of all ages swirl.
In a book published in 1983, Norman Augustine, a luminary of the aerospace industry, drafted a series of lighthearted "laws".
Past trustees have included Donald Rumsfeld, an ex-defence secretary, and Paul Wolfowitz, another Republican luminary who held high office at the Pentagon.
Morris, the first dance luminary to direct the event, collaborated with the jazz trio the Bad Plus on his joyous work for 15 dancers.
The renaissance was centred in Kolkata (Calcutta) and led by Ram Mohun Roy (1772 1833); its luminary poet, Rabindranath Tagore (1861 1941), composed the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
