Sentence examples for spotlight while the from inspiring English sources

RMT leader Bob Crow said the strike had kept the case in the spotlight, while the union had complied with the legal obligations under employment law.

After accepting the award on stage, West stood silently for several minutes under a spotlight while the crowd cheered for him.

Then a chamber-music-style duet can seize the spotlight while the rest of the musicians sit in silence.Ms Schneider's daring compositions have helped her to elbow her way onto the list of jazz's finest living composers.

Boy George's recent stab at Broadway stardom has put his former pop group back in the spotlight; while the four-CD Culture Club boxed set (Virgin) is generous with rarities and demos, it has almost no annotation and analysis.

"We chose to keep it quiet as the company was still in stealth mode — we didn't want to put it in the spotlight while the company was still experimenting".

In these scenarios, the perpetrator takes the spotlight while the victim is left in the wings.

Designer Sally Sirkin Lewis writhed uncomfortably under the spotlight, while Saul Bass, the diminutive giant of graphic design, adopted the frozen stance of a garden gnome.

Fair enough, but Kennedy cannot entirely shun the spotlight while amassing the capital he needs to compete in media like newspapers, broadcasting, cable television and the Internet.

Baseball executives reportedly were concerned about putting an N.B.A. player in the spotlight while that league goes through a lockout, canceled games and protracted labor negotiations.

Jeanie O'Hare had the idea to put Margaret in the spotlight while working as the Royal Shakespeare Company's first female literary manager at the time when the company put on the Bard's epic history plays in full a decade ago.

Former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa may come out of retirement to run for Tokyo governor on an anti-nuclear platform, a move that could push Japan's energy debate back into the national spotlight, while shaking up the gubernatorial race.