But there are limits to his government's willingness to face up to and name the crimes of the past.Dig deeper: Genocide overshadows other crimes against humanity (April 2015) Should the Armenian massacres be considered a genocide?
Mr Immelt is frustrated at how it overshadows GE's industrial business, which he believes he has remade into something special through years of unappreciated toil.Even with its previous thirst for risk it took GE two decades to create its giant financial business.
Both sides have been made unmistakably aware, moreover, of Washington's urgent interest in ending or at least reducing the violence, so that it no longer overshadows the broader regional diplomacy directed against Iraq.This is the backdrop to the apparent change of course in the past few days by Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister.
An unresolved longing to recapture that moment permeates both their lives, and the will-they-won't-they question overshadows the whole book.Herein lies the conundrum of "1Q84".
That overshadows not just the fate of the 73m-odd people in the EU-8, and the 30m in Romania and Bulgaria who will join the EU at the year's end.
But political weakness still overshadows Latvia's chances.
She has tried to drum up interest in the Holocaust with an essay competition offering a cash prize.In some places, the Holocaust now overshadows the conflict that fuelled it.
The comical character plays a vital part in the celebration of the feast day of St Nicholas, known as Sinterklaas, which overshadows Christmas as the most important children's holiday.
Similarly, the merger of Mittal Steel and Arcelor created a giant that easily overshadows Japan's top four steelmakers.Another factor likely to prompt consolidation in Japan is a new corporate law, due to come into effect in May 2007, which will allow foreign companies to use stock swaps to acquire Japanese firms, so facilitating takeovers.
Normally, says Ms Narain, "the scale of the disaster overshadows the scale of the intervention".
Whereas many Americans have in recent years seen the "war on terror" as an existential fight that overshadows all else, the Europeans and Chinese talk about terrorism as just one item in their leaders' in-trays.
