But the global economic downturn thrust a dagger to the heart of its most ambitious proposals.
The global downturn has thrust fast-growing Asia into the limelight as an engine of world growth, prompting an influx of investment by businesses seeking to capitalize on booming economies and on the rising affluence of Asia's billions of consumers.
Her health was thrust into the global spotlight this year when Meryl Streep starred in a controversial Hollywood film, The Iron Lady, about her.
BUNDANOON, Australia — When the residents here voted this month to stop selling bottled water in town, they never expected to be thrust into the global spotlight.
Mr. Demoner's students have included people from Hollywood studios, NASA, construction companies and small family businesses — all of them thrust into the global economy in one way or another.
He's an unlikely media star, not a pop singer or reality TV contestant, but a grey-haired automotive engineer thrust into the global spotlight after he and his colleagues were credited with helping uncover one of the biggest ever corporate scandals.
But the global turmoil of the past two years has thrust the region firmly into the limelight as a key driver of growth, and a location of rapidly growing spending power.
Her basic argument is that the reforms that liberated India's economy in the early 1990s and thrust it into the global marketplace may have created a vibrant new middle class, but have been devastating for the country's poor.
As Campbell and Burgess have argued, 'the [global mental health] discipline's literature concedes the social and economic determinants of poor mental health, but the thrust is of the global deployment of Western biomedical models of mental disorder' (18).
The country's Olympic debut came at the 1956 Melbourne Games, but it was Abebe Bikila's epic barefooted Olympic marathon victory through the streets of Rome in 1960 that thrust Ethiopian athletes into the global sporting limelight.
