Sentence examples for limelight making from inspiring English sources

Now, conflict is bringing polio back into the limelight, making it a significant international issue again.

The 2008 financial crisis thrust the Fed into the limelight, making it impossible for Mr. Bernanke to sustain such stonewalling.

In the past few years, the delicate issue of race has thrust New Jersey into the limelight, making the practice of racial profiling -- singling out minorities for traffic stops and searches -- one of the nation's premier civil rights issues.

She took a break from acting in 2003, during which time she got deeply involved with several African Aids charities, and promptly found herself back in the limelight, making speeches at conferences and doing press to raise awareness.

(Apropros of stars and visibility, the Bagger is pretty sure he saw Mr. Seymour Hoffman – a guy who is not exactly addicted to the limelight, making a light-hearted, winning appearance on Jay Leno. That ploy doesn't always work though. Remember Martin Scorsese going on Leno to flog "Gangs of New York"? That was the longest 12 minutes in the history of television).

After being sidelined at home in recent weeks by a broken elbow, Mrs. Clinton thrust herself back into the limelight, making headlines with unexpected statements about Iran, North Korea and Myanmar — at least one of which her aides felt obliged to clarify.

The lamps themselves were gradually improved, and footlights remained a major source of stage light until the first half of the 19th century, when high-intensity lights such as the limelight made it possible to illuminate the stage from the front.

Cap, never afraid of the limelight, matterfact, always in lust of the limelight, makes a production of getting upright and shambling into view.

However he commented that with partaking modelling, he wished to "bring the game [boxing] in the limelight, make it as popular as possible and catapult it to its deserving place at the top".

He was given another shot by Warrington in 2014 and has become a key member of Tony Smith's side this year but Penny said those years out of the limelight have made him appreciate life at the top more than ever before.

Yet he has always shunned the limelight, rarely making speeches or granting interviews.