Sentence examples for drew a spotlight from inspiring English sources

The Leggett decision drew a spotlight, though, said Gerald Treece, a professor at the South Texas College of Law in Houston and a friend of Mr. Harmon's.

In their deaths, the couple, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his wife Rivka, 28, drew a spotlight on the Chabad faith (the terms Chabad and Lubavitch are used interchangeably) — and to the emissaries' growing presence around the world.

Roger Stevens, Jr., the founding chairman of the Kennedy Center, expressed hope that the Honors would "help build more enthusiasm for the performing arts," and it seemed that he had found a canny strategy for doing so; the big shots drew a spotlight toward artists like Rudolf Serkin or Merce Cunningham, who had no profile on the talk-show circuit.

This drew a spotlight not just on the use of deadly force, but on the enduring calamity that is skid row.

Often, the best we can hope for is that our efforts draw a spotlight.

The program was never fully funded, and no one involved was accustomed to their technical daily work drawing a spotlight.

But now an eruption of low-tech troubles is drawing a spotlight to what lies behind the computer screen.

The three jailed female members of the punk group Pussy Riot have not only captured the world's attention, but have also drawn a spotlight on the Russian government's broader crackdown on political dissent.

The Orlando Massacre has drawn a spotlight on the bigotry that propelled the passage of those bills, and that contributes to the toxic atmosphere that so gravely imperils our lives as LGBT Americans.

Anthony M. Tola, above, drew a media spotlight when he poured a bottle of merlot into a toilet at his New Brunswick, N.J., restaurant and said he had earlier done the same with six bottles of Dom Pérignon -- flushing away $1,000 in sales.

In the N.B.A., Kobe Bryant drew a momentary spotlight by passing Shaquille O'Neal for fifth on the league's all-time scoring list, for which he even got Twitter congratulations from his longtime nemesis/teammate, but as Ken Berger writes on CBSSports.com, statistics mean little to Bryant.