Sentences with phrase «national limelight»

Dalung said Keshi played the game from the grassroots, where he featured prominently at the prestigious Lagos Principal's Cup that launched his playing career into national limelight.

Chief Audu Ogbeh who hails from Otukpa in Ogbadibo Local Government Council of Benue State came to national limelight in the 1980s when he emerged as Minister of Communications under the Shagari regime in the Second Republic.

Strikingly, for all the media attention on the case (propagated by Shkreli's troll - y Twitter antics and relish for stirring the pot), the trial verdict had nothing to do with the drug price hike that thrust him into the national limelight.

After his brief foray into the national limelight Cox continued what had always been to him his primary responsibility, the spiritual and material well being of his parish.

Talking about sustainable farming On Monday evening, Linderman got a chance to bring farming briefly to the national limelight, when CNN used her question about support for new farmers during the town hall.

Directed by Jeff Nichols (Mud), Loving carefully chronicles the life and times of an unassuming couple reluctantly thrust into the national limelight by a landmark legal case.

But it has been thrust into the national limelight recently, thanks to a high - profile booster:...

And while it was respected in its field long before the baseline assessment was even a twinkle in the schools minister's eye, it was thrown into the national limelight in 2015 when, after primary schools were given the choice between six assessments selected as capable of reliably measuring the abilities of children entering the reception year, 75 per cent opted for EExBA, the assessment tool designed by Early Excellence and scored through teacher observation.

A terrific underground - music scene that occasionally bursts into the national limelight.

Darlington Raceway — the fifty - eight - year - old, 1.37 - mile NASCAR oval just down the road — usually steals all the national limelight, but the Dragway still gets its fair share of local love, especially since it's busy five or six days a week.

On September 28, 1953, Life magazine published an article on Tobey, Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, and Morris Graves entitled «Mystic Painters of the Northwest» which placed them in the national limelight.