Sentence examples for thrust this issue from inspiring English sources

The project amounts to a revival of its previous "arrest-related deaths" count, which was quietly shuttered in March 2014, before the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, thrust this issue into the national spotlight.

A financial debacle at the parent of Swissair thrust the issue into public view.

Earlier this year, a series of work stoppages at factories thrust the issue of wages for migrant workers into the national spotlight.

In 1988, James Hansen, a NASA climate scientist, spoke at a Senate hearing and famously thrust the issue of global warming on the national stage.

The suicide of Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old technology wizard thrust the issue of access to information back into the limelight, Noam Cohen writes in The New York Times.

An aide involved in the talks said external events could thrust the issue back into the spotlight well ahead of the November election.

But a spate of recent headlines about Chinese cyberattacks on The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and others have thrust the issue on the diplomatic stage.

It was this mass killing, born out of Roof's alleged desire to "start a race war", that thrust the issue of the Confederate flag still flying on the South Carolina statehouse grounds back into the spotlight.

The unexpected intervention from Romney thrust the issue into the centre of the crowded Republican nomination contest and was supported by Barack Obama.

Mr. Lazio left it to the governor to elaborate, and Mr. Pataki sought to thrust the issue onto Mrs. Clinton, who, he asserted, had kept the controversy alive.

Fairly simple questions, but ones that could help to thrust the issue of plastic waste and pollution onto the radars of corporations, investors and the public in a much bigger way.