Before his magnificent innings on a crack-strewn Waca pitch, Stokes had twice sprung to prominence as a young sportsman.
His followers, under the name of Liveable Rotterdam, sprang to prominence by coming first in local elections in that city, his home, in March.
He had sprung to prominence in 1952 when he played the Russian Colonel Alexander Ikonenko in Peter Ustinov's West End play The Love Of Four Colonels.
She sprang to prominence again in Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film, "Jackie Brown," and she popped up in the 21st century in the groundbreaking Showtime television series "The L Word," about the lives of lesbians.
Waitrose first launched its myWaitrose card online in 2009, but it sprung to prominence three years ago when bosses offered all cardholders a free tea or coffee every day, regardless of whether they bought anything.
"His name sprang to prominence when Ike bought a Dawson painting from us that he kept in the Oval Office," said David M. Mason of the London gallery MacConnal-Mason at the Palm Beach Classic.
It was with the publication of her feminist polemic Patriarchal Attitudes in 1970 – the same year Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch and Kate Millett's Sexual Politics came out – that Eva Figes's name sprang to prominence.
Brown Panther sprang to prominence with his success in the King George V Stakes at Royal Ascot in 2011, a win which left Owen visibly moved as he had been present when Brown Panther was foaled from his mare Treble Heights.
And he emphasized the one criticism of Mr. Berlusconi that many Southern Italians do care about -- his links to Mr. Bossi, a politician who first sprang to prominence by advocating Northern secession from the poorer, needy South.
Then, having sprung to prominence by winning the 2012 Irish Open and the 2013 Abu Dhabi Championship following years of toil on a European tour he joined in 2002, he almost missed out on the Ryder Cup.
On Sunday Rose is likely to play for his club against Manchester United, for whom Shaw has yet to secure a regular first-team spot following his £27m summer transfer from Southampton, where he sprung to prominence under the tutelage of Pochettino.
