Sentence examples for spotlight instead on from inspiring English sources

It means not worrying so much about balancing up our stories with equal quotes from the dubious camps that frame our stories and putting the spotlight instead on basic truths.

Producer Brad Wright wanted all of the characters to get a last shot in the spotlight instead of focusing on only one character.

But with the Big Four all faced with seemingly straightforward domestic outings, the spotlight instead falls on those sides struggling at the other end of the table.

In some cases, attention shifts away from the celebration of the end of college, with the spotlight instead landing on figures that some students deem unfit to address them.

Bernanke's absence on the schedule could open up a spot for an heir-apparent to take the spotlight instead.

Instead, the spotlight fell on one of the executive producers, Eva Longoria, better known for her own role as the wealthy Gabrielle Solis on "Desperate Housewives".

His absence allowed the spotlight to be turned, instead, on British actor Paddy Considine, who delivered stand-out performances in two very different films: Shane Meadows's Dead Man's Shoes and Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love.

No, but they might have at least put the spotlight on one of theirs, instead of playing defense against all the Republican issues.

Realizing early that the centralized system of government that Lenin had created vested extraordinary power in the party machine, he avoided the spotlight and instead concentrated on building up cadres loyal to himself.

Hints of a possible sasquatch connection first appeared when the pitcher released a video featuring the creature the day after his Tommy John surgery, steering the spotlight away from his injury, focusing instead on his crowd-pleasing antics.

And meanwhile the spotlight of world attention has been removed from their illegal occupation of Afghanistan and focused instead on the wholly legitimate but hapless American mission to free the hostages.