When a director is the first to emerge from his country into the world spotlight, his films are often thought to embody a peculiar national spirit.
U.S. corporate earnings reports are presently in the world spotlight.
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Given the time it would take to clear up any disaster, he says, Brazil may block BP or delay the offshore drilling as they are eager to avoid any catastrophe in 2014 and 2016 when the nation will be in the world spotlight for the FIFA World Cup and the summer Olympics.
With the world's spotlight on South Africa throughout the tournament and with some 450, 000 tourists expected to pile into the country, there is money to be made.
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The case puts the world of web addresses under the spotlight at a time when several new domain names are coming online.
Fordyce told BBC Spotlight they duo entered the World Games with little expectation of success.
Today the House of Winston competes with the world's toniest jewelers for the red carpet spotlight.
The case drew widespread attention in India and world-wide for its brutality and for the spotlight it shone on India's failure to protect women.
Boone Pickens stole the spotlight with his plans to build the world's largest wind farm slightly north of Amarillo in the Texas panhandle, the state's most powerful wind energy resources remain untapped.
If he was initially a well-kept secret outside of the spotlight that surrounds Real in Madrid, the world at large sat up and took notice when he scored a stunning volley to round off Spain's 4-0 win over Ukraine in last summer's World Cup.
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.
Frankly without consumer numbers the defense mission was not only weak, but feels like Ballmer squandered air time in a preeminent spotlight that he could have used to tell the world what Microsoft, the consumer company, was going to become.
China, now the world's biggest emitter, and so the country in the spotlight, has committed itself to cut the carbon-intensity of its economy by 40-45% by 2020.
Mr. ARTHUR BLANK (Owner and CEO, Atlanta Falcons): Regardless of the outcome of this case, this issue has put a spotlight in one of those things that remains wrong in this world, the notion that anyone would participate in dog fighting is incomprehensible to me.
Focus on "real-world heroes who have faced down cancer while loving a sport more than the spotlight, " Martin said.
But in hundreds of hours of coverage, there should be room in the spotlight, time in the schedule, for the rest of the world.
The deadly fire is sure to shine a spotlight on safety in Brazil, which is set to host the World Cup next year and the Olympics in 2016.
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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.
Vice President Dick Cheney, who has largely kept a low profile since the September 11 terrorist attacks, returned to the spotlight with a trip to New York Thursday and a look at the wreckage of the World Trade Center.
Miss Slade has been thrust into the spotlight after the surprise inclusion of Arsenal player Walcott, also 17, in England's World Cup squad.
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.
Despite being on a small scale so far, the problems have turned the spotlight towards 2018 -- when Russia will host the planet's biggest soccer spectacle, the World Cup.
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More importantly, while the World Cup boasts famous and well-paid footballers, the bulk of Olympic athletes toil for years beyond the media spotlight at sports of even greater obscurity.
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