Determined to spotlight the serious writer, the two curators spent months pleading with Mr. Elias, the president of the Anne Frank-Fords, or foundation, in Basel, Switzerland, which holds the copyright on Frank's works, and with officials at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam, which holds the original manuscripts.
Neither Mr. Putin nor Mr. Medvedev offered any immediate reaction to the sentencing, and it appeared that the Kremlin was determined not to spotlight it.
Unfortunately for Mourinho, actor and comedian Will Ferrell was determined to put the spotlight back onto the pitch.
A new mad scientist is camping up musical theater, and he's determined to steal the spotlight at any cost.
But Li Wei, a counterterrorism expert at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, said he thought the attack bore the hallmarks of Uighur separatists determined to grab the spotlight when the world was focusing on China.
Mr. Hardi and his colleagues as well as some of the most prominent Kurdish writers and intellectuals inside the region and abroad are determined to keep the spotlight on Mr. Osman's case.
León Gieco, the well-known Argentine folk singer, is so determined to put the spotlight on others in "Mundo Alas" ("World Wings"), an admirable documentary about an unusual concert tour he led, that you end up wanting to wrestle him into a chair and make him talk.
The World Trade Centre, of course, was not destroyed during an election campaign, let alone in a political environment like today's, in which Republicans are determined to keep the spotlight on national security, an issue where the party fares well and on which, they contend, the President, Barack Obama, and the Democrats have been dangerously weak.
With a vast knowledge of media, Werblin was determined to put the spotlight on the team.
But now, Mr. Tagliabue, 61, appears to be running toward the spotlight, determined to use his presence, all 6 feet 5 inches of it, to pitch a rebounding post-9/11 New York, his and the league's adopted hometown, to America.
His speech, however, suggested that he is determined to harness the news media spotlight and influence the political discourse in the run-up to that election.
