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"The charity work is at the crux of being a musician, " Leehom said. "Being a public figure, you've got to sway the spotlight. "

It is hard not to feel a twinge of pity; few would envy such a life in the spotlight as teenage hormones start to kick in.

The Portuguese tactician has never been out of the spotlight at Stamford Bridge since arriving at the club in the summer of 2004.

He said one purpose of the Armitage mission will be to keep the heat, and the spotlight, on the Damascus government.

"We spent the last four years trying to stay out of the spotlight, " Jenna Bush said to laughter from the delegates.

But I had a childhood, and I was allowed to make mistakes and find my own way in the world without the glare of the spotlight.

Having growing up in the spotlight as a child star of Harry Potter, Emma Watson often had to fight to convince people she's all grown up.

HRN: You mentioned silver as a way to preserve wealth but gold seems to be in the spotlight.

In an era when machinery was the driver of industrial success, Owen switched the spotlight on to the human machines behind the machines.

The spotlight starts to dim during the second week as you focus on your finances, which should be in fine standing.

Sam passed a hand across his head, shining under the spotlight; it was an unconscious habit when he was thinking a problem through.

the heart beating under the spotlight as if it were an actor that knew that this could be its last chance to perform.

Monday night, the spotlight will turn to the finals of the men's 110m hurdles, and it's shaping up to be a great one.

Man behind the WikiLeaks: Julian Assange dropped secret dispatches from wars, but those diplomatic cables really put him in the spotlight.

At this point, the porcelain in its own unique temperament, back in the spotlight.

It would have been natural for her to desire, and even deserve, the spotlight.

Although other techniques are coming into the spotlight (noticeably Neural Networks), the minimax tree is at the heart of the best programs.

Private deals are becoming even more popular in London as well-known millionaires seek to avoid the spotlight of an open market transaction.

Will: Probably right. But, um, in hindsight. . . you were right to shine the spotlight on the fact that those kids are minorities.

While we mull this, Beijing officials might be wishing for 2012 to come soon, so London's outlays can turn the spotlight away from its own.

The spotlight for better or worse will be on Mr. Cook and his willingness to take a risk on what could be the company's next big thing.

The spotlight is only so wide, though, so when someone tries to snag some of it, you won't hesitate to show your disapproval.

Davis also insisted that Houston, whose last album of original material was 2002's Just Whitney, is ready to return to the spotlight.

As Cerberus has learned to its cost, it is hard to stay out of the spotlight with buy-outs of iconic companies.

Mourinho's future has been under the spotlight this season following media reports of a fall-out with owner Roman Abramovich.

They're in the spotlight and feel as if they always need to have the right answer to protect their image.

Look! Jordan is flying and dunking the ball! Attaboy! He is always a superstar in the spotlight.

Now Artangel has decided that it's the turn of lesbian asylum seekers to take their place in the spotlight.

I wanted to be up there in the spotlight, hear people cheering as I told my stories in dance, see people standing as they clapped for me.

For Zeng, this was just the start of her life in the spotlight.

As a result, they decided to send Nicholas, and his sister, Jennifer, away from the spotlight to be schooled in Vancouver.

But his wife, Li Ling, is powerful too and will find herself in the spotlight more as trade disputes rise amid the sour global economy.

you were right to shine the spotlight on the fact that those kids are minorities.

With so much focus on Europe, earnings -- even with most companies beating expectations -- have been given less of the spotlight.

The pop star's "Confessions" world tour and her adoption of a baby boy in the African country of Malawi put her back in the spotlight.

Now that they were so much in the spotlight, and in the money, they fell into bickering, demoralized, warring factions.

But the spotlight has begun to shine on the practices of police interrogation as well as on the court's presumption of guilt.

There was plenty of evidence that Greece is no longer in the spotlight for financial markets.

The Spanish teenager finds himself in the spotlight now the Frenchman has left Highbury for Juventus.

Just like anyone else I went through my growing pains except that the only difference was that I was in the spotlight.

To date, his secondary status to Blair has meant a limit to the number of private moments he has had to act out in the spotlight.

Madonna has all the brass of her Leo Sun sign, but it's not just her boldness that keeps her in the spotlight.

Come on out . It's time to leave the dim lights behind and step right out into the spotlight -- and isn't it about time?

We don't need China or any other country to be put into the spotlight.

He stole the spotlight, one reporter wrote, "with the studied nonchalance of an old vaudeville trouper. "

The latter are coming under the spotlight as regulators crack down on an estimated $340bn worth of "informal securitisation" .

And though the rows were fierce, they were far more bearable than being out of the spotlight and unseen by others.

This week we publish a set of articles intended to put higher education's role in achieving development goals under the spotlight.

But this year, the flare of the microblog trend, known as "weibo, " catapulted Sina. com back into the spotlight.

As a once and future politician, Mr Emanuel was used to being in the spotlight and brought his dramatic ways to the West Wing.

His fear of public speaking made him an incredibly private president who tried to avoid the spotlight.

He's left a big gap, because he was the only one who could take the spotlight from Sir Alex Ferguson.

The problem of ratio of finical -supporting population is always the spotlight of our county.

Kobe Bryant lost the spotlight for a while when Lebron James came in to the league.

But there are also advantages to not being in the spotlight, including taking pressure off the U. S. from a political standpoint.

will accompany someone who does. Or in another case, a performer will not always have a solo and the chance to be in the spotlight.

Maybe it was because we both understood what it was like to be in the spotlight from a very, very young age.

The Olympics and Paralympics are also a time when the best ideas and technologies in the sports industry take the spotlight.

The steamy belly dance by one Hu You became the spotlight of the whole show, and the comical interaction brought it to a climax.

Similarly, Carrie Fisher, whose film career had long since cooled off, regained the spotlight with her novels and memoir.

Sure. His $8, 888, 888 donation to his school at Yale University has put him in the spotlight.

Exercise of the rumbling guns once again to put the spotlight on the Korean peninsula.

Degenerative diseases are always in the spotlight due to developments in contemporary medicine and improving longevity.

The spotlight being shone on the excesses of the corporate world will bring with it tougher regulation.

Swaying in nib dancing, is the most robust of the spotlight and with a red.

Some of Beijing's political dissidents will take advantage of the spotlight on China to highlight their grievances.

You know you love the spotlight. You always have.

Two days after the great win against AC Milan, Hasan Salihamidzic is still in the spotlight at Juventus.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Thursday used what is called a privileged resolution to keep the Iraq controversy in the spotlight.

Winona Ryder is making a grand return to the spotlight, and she's sharing some tricks of the trade she's learned along the way.

The solar energy collector can trace the sun in clear day uninterruptedly, and keeps the spotlight flat and sunlight perpendicular.

Known as the "science cop, " Fang came under the spotlight in recent years for helping expose academic misconduct.

Stunned by Henry's flying start and maybe their week in the spotlight, too, Reading were a shadow of their Championship-winning selves.

While Apple Inc. 's iPhone seems always to be in the spotlight, HTC Corp. has been getting some attention in the smartphone market.

The United States will continue to shine the spotlight of international attention on all those who abuse this basic human right.

How many actresses do you know have actually bowed out of the spotlight due to being fulfilled?

The lighting is not exact; otherwise, the cone cast by the spotlight would be round.

But off the campaign trail, he shies from the spotlight and is rarely photographed at parties.

The Warriors, Timberwolves, Clippers and Kings all will be interesting to see, even if they won't get much time in the spotlight.

Despite its abhorrence of his comments, the festival courts the spotlight as much as any celebrity.

"These really put the brand into the spotlight in the United States, " said Wallis-Jones.

But this will not enhance their rationale, and the glare of the spotlight will just point out the flaws in their logic.

Just knowing that the spotlight effect is real and ubiquitous can begin to liberate us from its inhibiting clutches.

The debate has thrown the spotlight on Zurich , which had 224 animal abuse cases in 2008 -- a third of all those recorded nationwide .

The Spotlight GPS pet locator is a tracking system that lets owners know the moment their dogs make a great escape.

Lack simply cannot hold up in the spotlight of love.

Mr. Kim also appointed his sister Kim Kyong Hui, who long shunned the spotlight, as a four-star general and to political posts in the party.

But Mr. Perry was little in evidence as the spotlight shifted to his battling rivals.

In this context, the tourism enterprise business mode is in the spotlight by the tourist industry and academy.

The hardware store has a daily Do-it-Yourselfer feature that gives the spotlight to one of their customers.

The spotlight has now fallen on China, which has one of the biggest nuclear-power-plant building plans in the world.

Judy Garland: I'm only *really* at home in the light of the spotlight.

It was on that particular evening that I found myself at central stage, in the spotlight.

With the death of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, the spotlight at Apple shifts to a successor years in the making: Tim Cook.

Now, however, it has shot into the spotlight for another reason - property derivatives.

Less than six years later, however, Ms Huffington has never seemed more comfortable in the spotlight.

Needless to say, the incident has raised tensions and has put Pakistan in the spotlight once again.

FINANCIAL hearings can be dull, but they spring to life when shadowy money men are dragged into the spotlight.

The movie star likes to be in the spotlight, surrounded by her faithful fans.

Previously a little-known British politician and briefly the EU's trade commissioner, she has not had an easy time in the spotlight.

With a much remembered final "au revoir, " Giscard stood, made an exit and left an empty chair in the spotlight.

Several high-profile cases in recent years have put the spotlight on Taiwan's prosecution of mainland investments it considers illegal.

Elsewhere, research into corneal flap creation has seen a number of new procedures taking their turn in the spotlight.

MOST hedge-fund managers like to stay out of the spotlight.

Earlier this month, a Delhi High Court ruling overturning a British colonial era law banning homosexual sex put the spotlight on the issue.

Encouragingly, thanks to the universiade and the great foresight of the government, green ideas have been put in the spotlight.

By his side, but why? Political spouses in the spotlight.

Some of China's best competitive dance duos took the spotlight at one of the capital's iconic sports venues Saturday night.

But forests are now being propelled into the spotlight for another value: their ability to store carbon and mitigate climate change.

In the spotlight was a group of motor infantry formed by a total number of 160 motorcycles.

With the movie set in full swing, it gave Airmen a peek into Hollywood life and a moment in the spotlight.

Away from the spotlight, though, another industry is facing its own crisis of confidence in laissez-faire liberalism.

Never before has an individual been so scrutinised during a match, but to Cantona it was just another chance to shine in the spotlight.

He stepped into the spotlight again in 1988, issuing one of the first climate warnings to Congress.

However, the spotlight was not directed solely on Ronaldinho. The Portuguese talked of Andrea Pirlo's excellent ball work.

By turning the spotlight away from cutting people, companies can get back to building their knowledge and skills base.

But the traditional method for analyzing the azimuth ambiguity in strip-map mode SARs does not match the situation in the spotlight mode.

Meanwhile, more practical, mainstream expressions of Islamist politics have stolen the spotlight.

The spotlight will be all the more intense amid stubborn speculation that GE may try to unload NBC Universal after the games.

Its restrictive distribution system is under the spotlight thanks to an ongoing bid-rigging scandal at the state-run alcohol monopoly.

The chancellor was thrust into the spotlight as the financial crisis escalated this year.

With the global energy scarcity, the exploration of underground resource is pushed into the spotlight.

Our willpower is so weak that the only way we can resist anything is by finding a way to forget about it, directing the spotlight elsewhere.

Since her moment in the spotlight, though, she has redefined the word slump.

Then, in the spotlight on stage and many viewers watched how the personality, grades will be irrelevant!

Neither of these sun-signs feels the need to hog the spotlight and so they make a great couple that shine brilliantly together.

Its political development is lagging far behind , though , and Liu's Nobel put the issue in the spotlight as rarely before .

For the past seven years, Winona Ryder has lived mostly out of the spotlight.

There's supposed to be only one celebrity in North Korea, after all, and they keep the spotlight on him.

Your professional reputation will be in the spotlight as this coming Friday's full moon will light up your honors and recognition .

That brought me closer to my friends and family and I started to really think about things because I wasn't in the spotlight.

You may choose to stand in the spotlight, but there is less of a craving for it.

But the Harbin scandal also focused the spotlight on an unenviable safety record.

Now the spotlight moves away from here to Tripoli in the west, where the new government will now sit.

Summary: Some news in recent weeks has brought China's grave environmental situation back into the spotlight.

Journalistic ethics are under the spotlight following fresh allegations of phone hacking by a Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid.

Did the supervisors at Mentor ever invited to attend any honorable awarding ceremonies ? Did the spotlight ever shine on them ?

As in life, everyone eventually has their moment to shine and their chance to be in the spotlight.

History has encouraged Shanghai's people to feel a certain entitlement to the spotlight.

'We've met before but never with the glare of the spotlight quite like it is today and the expectations being as high as they are. '

But Jackman, who plays Charlie, says he gladly let the 10 year old take the spotlight because he did it so well.

So it's my distinct pleasure to first turn the spotlight on the NBA's most diligent man-to-man defenders.

The Saturday-night drama represents Judge Ramos's latest appearance in the spotlight during a major financial court battle.

For one evening, the attention focused on this year's presidential election was put on pause, as Mr. Bush stood in the spotlight.

The search warrant intensifies the spotlight on Gizmodo and opens new questions about the limits of journalists' legal protections.

These achievements come at a time when cities are under the spotlight.

French artists are once again in the spotlight, with the annual China-France Cultural Spring beginning on Thursday.

The agile movement brought into the spotlight the need for teams to communicate continuously and well.

The issue is in the spotlight as Prince William prepares to marry Kate Middleton this month.

Right from the start, four years ago, it seemed Obama enjoyed having the first lady steal some of the spotlight.

The Livorno-born defender will be remembering his 24th birthday for a long time, coming in a summer when he's always under the spotlight.

While the stunts are grabbing the spotlight, they are also raising questions as to whether the pint-sized athlete's safety is at risk.

could be even more in the spotlight next year as people seek uplifting stories amid the financial crisis.

Together, they turned heads at starry events, and attracted the spotlight to issues of their choosing.

With the Beijing Olympics just three months away, China is in the spotlight.

To stand in the spotlight of life, one must have experience in the shadows of setbacks.

The stage, they own four years, page by page opened, in the spotlight like a book.

Her career peaked during a 2001 concert tour, after which she chose to step out of the spotlight.

As the most important competitive resources of the enterprise, marketing channels increasingly has been put into the spotlight.

We might feel invulnerable in the spotlight, but we don't want to be caught sitting in someone else's audience.

It's the spotlight on the artist that helps you to focus.

Early in his disease, Muhammad shied away from the spotlight.

The food crisis has put agriculture and its role in development in the spotlight.

After many years away from the spotlight, the European anarchist group this winter to re-enter the European public view.

The United Nations aimed the spotlight on human trafficking Tuesday.

Malaria is in the spotlight of the music world for the second time this year.

That's what all footballers want to do, be in the spotlight and try to improve and do their best.

For Andre Agassi, maturing in the spotlight of international tennis competition was even harder.

That is because the heavy snows that have been accumulating in central China were falling on places far out of the spotlight.

Dancers are driven by many passions, love of movement, love of music, love of the spotlight.

But retailers will be in the spotlight as we see what effect rising fuel prices and falling home prices are having on consumers.

Clubs and managers in other sports have learned, often to their cost, that young players in the spotlight need support and protection.

Do-it-yourself biologists emerged into the spotlight after the first meeting, in a Cambridge pub, in 2008.

Now another new source of lighting, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), is starting to take the spotlight.

Chen Min, Vice President of China International Intellectech Corporation (CIIC) HR Management Consulting, joins us on the Spotlight.

It's your turn to be on stage. 2. You're going to be in the spotlight.

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But many of the new approaches, designed to empower individuals, have managed to evade the spotlight.

If you work tirelessly behind the scenes but shy away from the spotlight, it's time to take center stage.

The spotlight on Mr Strauss-Kahn has made criticism of Mr Sarkozy's own behaviour appear almost irrelevant.

Our hardworking staff that stick working behind the spotlight, come on, let's show our faces.

The announcement comes two weeks before Sino-American relations come under the spotlight with US president Barack Obama's visit.

When your confidence grows, your heart will too, and you'll be less fearful of sharing the spotlight with those around you.

But when the spotlight was turned on only the more methodologically rigorous studies, a potentially harmful association was found.

"Outside the Law" is a respectable action film, which turns the spotlight on a disturbing episode of history.

The unfortunate outcome of media coverage is the spotlight falls on the whistleblower.

However, Nikon is stealing the spotlight today with the announcement of its new D7000 D-SLR.

He played defense, deferred rightfully so to the Big Man, and allowed Shaq to get all the spotlight.

She was in the spotlight after she won the marathon.

Meanwhile Greece will be in the spotlight especially its bond syndication.

You got a chance to shine here, John. Stand in the spotlight. Show them all you're an ace.

Part-timer Anne Abreu, a San Mateo, Calif. , insurance specialist, knows her schedule puts her 'under the spotlight, ' she says.

However, the issue of native memory has been creeping back into the spotlight (see Resources).

In this riveting book, S. C. Gwynne turns the spotlight on his home state, Texas.

But not everyone likes to be in the spotlight on their birthday.

Recent turmoil in the financial markets has thrown the spotlight on business schools.

You might be wealthy, celebrated and live in the spotlight of media today.

He used the spotlight to list action taken on environment on his watch.

Then comes another moment in the spotlight: the 2012 European football championships, shared with Ukraine.

Joint or marital finances also come into the spotlight around this time, as there's a new moon in Aquarius on the 13th.

Reported that it resumed operation in the spotlight.

Kate was back in the spotlight one day to celebrate Prince Philip's 90th birthday on June 12.

We must stay beside them as the spotlight of world attention fades. When day-to-day life once again resumes.

In fact, it puts the spotlight back on some rather old-fashioned ways to cut emissions and electricity bills.

The spotlight shuts off, and Michael moves towards the Psychiatric Ward.

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Find him thousands of times in the world, suddenly look back, he is just in the spotlight.

The views he allegedly published on the Internet have put Europe's far right in the spotlight.

The government-appointed panel to review rail safety has turned the spotlight on a problem that has seldom received attention.

The team's representatives at the hearing squirmed in the spotlight.

Not all authors are pleased about being thrown into the spotlight.

Though the spotlight is on India and China this week, Lewis points out that these two countries are not acting in isolation.

To make their case, the referendum's supporters have thrown the spotlight on Mr.

Then again, tablet-specific apps would enjoy the spotlight for iPad owners.

Now the spotlight is falling on black leaders who have led more than just protest marches.

In the process, it has put the spotlight back on whether multinationals should invest in China through such partnerships.

We find that famous people always rocket into the spotlight for fame.

Chapter 2 introduces the image formation theory of SAR and analyzes the resolution problem under the strip map mode and the spotlight mode.

The immediate focus has been BP's moves in Libya, but the spotlight could turn to Nigeria, Angola or Kazakhstan.

Banks and financial institutions remain in the spotlight.

It's not easy for a low-key couple to maintain their love, especially when they are living under the spotlight.

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Her waitressing job that paid the bills also offered a huge story, launching her into the spotlight.

In 2008, the church was in the spotlight again when two of its young members died.

As always, the spotlight falls on Saudi Arabia, OPEC's dominant member and the world's single largest oil exporter.

To express the feeling is mutual, he heads back out into the spotlight.

Another Swiss bank, Credit Suisse, is also in the spotlight after a bond trader left under a cloud.

What we most expect from William and Kate is another generation of the House of Windsor, so time away from the spotlight is good.

Now that the People's Republic is in the spotlight, there is little in the way of visible evolution toward democracy.

The insider trading trial of Raj Rajaratnam placed more than just hedge fund advisers in the spotlight.

In the process, the spotlight has turned back to Italy and Spain's debt problems.

But to this day, I feel ill at ease in the spotlight. Extrovert, I am not.

Others have also been putting the corn ethanol industry in the spotlight.

They put the nameless faceless actors of history in the spotlight and ask questions about the unknowability of the past.

Everyone involved in a conversation should get their time in the spotlight.

Several African nations, for example, are taking their place in the spotlight.

Zhai Zhigang accomplished the walking in space under the spotlight of national concern.

I just wanted. . . I just wanted. . . Come on guys, I'm not doing the spotlight bit.

Wenzhou folk houses in Shanghai has been in the spotlight. but a little while ago called " disinvestment " hearsay is a seething hot.

He is, along with our medal-winning athletes, alone in the spotlight, representing the best in the world.

Mitchell Waldrop's book introduces readers to complexity by telling a story about the people who brought it into the spotlight.

Liverpool's poor form this season has put Carragher more in the spotlight than if he was 31 in 2005 and we'd just won the Champions League.

But its focus on the emerging economies may soon steal the spotlight.

The change also shines the spotlight more brightly on the man who one day could run this empire, David Sokol.

And look, this will probably never happen. . . but there are dark horses that could steal the spotlight.

The EU was considering the issue before the UBS case put the issue in the spotlight.

At Wanghong's wedding ceremony, John stole the spotlight with his beautiful new car.

What happens when the spotlight shines on the young scientists?

It has been in the spotlight since Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik claimed to have links with the group, which it denies.

The medicinal benefits of green tea have in the spotlight these days.