Sentence examples for given the spotlight from inspiring English sources

Given the spotlight that the Jerusalem bureau chief is bound to attract, and Ms. Rudoren's self-acknowledged missteps, this was a necessary step.

Was there pressure to pass the bill, especially given the spotlight thrown on the issue of child sexual abuse by the actor Aamir Khan?

At the Party Convention, in Cleveland, last week, the most radical opponents of immigration reform in Congress were given the spotlight.

Putting Mr. Clinton to good use, while containing his less helpful impulses, would be a major test for Mrs. Clinton as president, given the spotlight and pressure they would be under and her limited ability in the past to rein in his excesses.

Hammer is given the spotlight at Olympic trials.

It is one of those moments when the little thoughts we have in our own lives are given the spotlight of significance and the weight of divine possibility.

But "Madea Goes to Jail" differs from its immediate predecessors in giving the spotlight back to its title character.

Donald J. Trump announced on Monday that he would not seek the presidency, a development less important for the Republican field or his national political future — if he ever had one — than for what it said about a media culture that increasingly seems to give the spotlight to the loudest, most outrageous voices.

Once during the show he gave the spotlight to his horn players, who performed some 1930s-'40s weswing swing in the style of the pioneering troupe Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, and then played the theme from "Family Guy" — a little bit of what they wanted, and a little bit of what they imagined everyone else might want.

Mr. Estevez is both writer and director of this film, and also turns up in a small role, but he gives the spotlight to his father, who makes quite a lot out of a low-key story that could easily have degenerated into mush.

The two older men, natty and understated, offered precision soft-shoe with some winging and spins thrown in, before stepping back to give the spotlight to the prodigal man-boy whose energy and autonomy made you wonder why the others were there at all.