Thrust into the spotlight during Toyota's acceleration-pedal recall in late 2009, his initial public comments seemed awkward.
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Members items were thrust into the spotlight last week after Council Member Daniel Halloran was arrested on bribery charges.
The meat industry was first thrust into the spotlight last month when Irish investigators found horse and pig DNA in hamburger products.
The issue was thrust into the spotlight in 2011 after a soldier who was executed for murdering a child was subsequently proved innocent.
The two families could be thrust into the spotlight once again if Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush runs for president in three years.
Miss Slade has been thrust into the spotlight after the surprise inclusion of Arsenal player Walcott, also 17, in England's World Cup squad.
It lacked the excitement and emotion that Obama has come to rely on since he was thrust into the spotlight at the 2004 DNC convention.
Columbine was thrust into the spotlight on April 20 when two of its seniors shot their way through the school, killing 12 fellow students and a teacher.
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Their marriage was thrust into the spotlight when the desk clerk at a Vail-area resort hotel told police that Kobe Bryant had sexually assaulted her in 2003.
Since he was thrust into the spotlight, Hayward has made a number of high-profile gaffes that critics say illustrated his lack of sensitivity for those hurt by the spill.
Mr Mitchell - whose job was to maintain discipline on the Conservative benches - was thrust into the spotlight when The Sun accused him in a front page story of calling police "plebs".
When the pope died, Cardinal Ratzinger was thrust into the spotlight as the most senior member of the College of Cardinals, delivering a tense address to his fellow cardinals in the run-up to the conclave that elected him pope.
Istanbul was visited by Bond in From Russia With Love, The World is Not Enough, and will be thrust into the spotlight when it hosts perhaps the most famous moment in any Bond film, the opening action sequence, for Skyfall.
The case was thrust into the national spotlight after attention by bloggers and the hacker activist group Anonymous.
The case, which has fiercely divided the town, was thrust into the national spotlight amid interest by bloggers and the hacker activist group Anonymous.
The Philadelphia-born actress was thrust into the international spotlight when she married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and became known throughout the world as Princess Grace.
Mr Nagin was thrust into the national spotlight during Hurricane Katrina and was re-elected to a second term as mayor in 2006.
Earlier this month Massey was thrust into the national spotlight after an explosion at its Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia that left 29 dead.
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Parks, 87, was thrust into the national spotlight in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
The school was thrust into the national spotlight with accusations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who was convicted last month on 45 of 48 counts related to sexual abuse of boys.
The toy was thrust into the political spotlight during last year during a highly publicized gaffe by Mitt Romney's senior campaign adviser, who compared his candidate's positions to an Etch A Sketch.
"As chairman of the Press Complaints Commission for the past seven years, I am only too aware of the damage that can be done to individuals and institutions that are thrust into the public spotlight, " his statement said.
The legislation thrust Colorado into the national spotlight as a potential test of how far the country might be willing to go with new gun restrictions after the horror of mass killings at an Aurora movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school.
Quick and thoughtful action can help quell a growing problem, unless of course, new facts emerge to thrust the issue back into the public spotlight.
Yesterday massive crowds flooded downtown Montreal, marking the 100th day of the Montreal Uprising which has thrust Montreal into the global movement spotlight.
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But it has thrust him into the media spotlight and heightened concerns about the way in which activist investors can determine the fate of the world's largest corporations.
It refused an earlier opportunity to serve as chair in 2005, before the watershed political and economic reforms that have thrust the former pariah state into the global spotlight.
The chance whims of pop culture can unexpectedly thrust a heretofore obscure place into the spotlight.
The programme thrust contestants including Jade Goody, "Nasty" Nick Bateman and Kate Lawler into the spotlight.
The tragedy two years ago thrust her and her husband into a new kind of spotlight.
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