Sentence examples for obscurity last from inspiring English sources

Golden Dawn catapulted from obscurity last June to win seats in Parliament for the first time after campaigning on a heavily anti-immigrant platform.

LG Chem, the country's biggest chemical maker, was catapulted from relative obscurity last year when a unit of the company was selected to provide lithium-ion batteries for General Motors Chevrolet Voltt plug-in hybrid car, which will soon be delivered to customers in the United States.

Tonight, Mr. Putin met with former President Boris N. Yeltsin and received warm praise from the patron who plucked Mr. Putin from political obscurity last fall as the head of the country's intelligence agency, appointed him prime minister, and then announced that the 47-year-old ex-K.G.B. officer would make a good successor.

Their very obscurity today suggests not.

COAL-MINING stocks are paying a price for their emergence from obscurity a year ago.

Yet it may be Zweig's insightfulness that invited his tragic obscurity today.

But also present are more than a few whose obscurity today is not surprising.

He sensed that Big Bird was unlikely to fade into obscurity this month, with two more presidential debates to go, not to mention Halloween.

The spearfishing enthusiast who compared the sport's popularity in the 1940's and 1950's with its relative obscurity today was Chris Miller, not Jason Behan.

Contemporary "artists" hawking this sort of this garbage would have been relegated to obscurity 50 years ago because nobody would have bought their recordings.

Despite his relative obscurity today, Sant'Angelo was widely considered a visionary in his time, known for his expressive, avant-garde designs and stretchy fabrics that revealed the natural form.