| But mandarins take center stage, with a mandarin-themed recipe contest, mandarin shakes, even mandarin trees for sale. |
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| In early spring, fragile perennials, such as foxgloves and delphiniums, take center stage. |
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| At last, the curtain is raised, and Jackson takes center stage and immediately owns the crowd. |
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| Charlie was quick to recognize Adam's signature nine-foot Steinway concert grand piano on center stage. |
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| Gauze and chiffon, decorated with skin-baring crochet or big organza bows, in shades of rose and mint took center stage. |
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| This political party will take center stage when the curtain rises on their convention one week from today in Boston. |
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| Imaginative stage lighting provided dim illumination and served to showcase dancers in center stage. |
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| Although facing left, Paula directs her bold, limpid eyes back to center stage. |
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| While Monica and Ken take center stage again in Washington, Bill and his trusty sidekick Al have skedaddled to Asia. |
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| The history tells us that once political mobilisations take center stage, wanton crime, ill-discipline and slothfulness suddenly disappear. |
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| It certainly doesn't help that, at a time like this, political infighting has begun to compete for center stage. |
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| The biggest wave of mergers since the late 1800s has pushed economic concentration in all sectors onto center stage. |
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| The book fails to portray the bawdy and contentious woman who wanted always to be on center stage. |
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| But Stockholder's own creations easily held center stage, blazing away in the brightly lit gallery with plastic agleam and fake fur flying. |
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| Despite the controversy over the vote recount in Florida, the next US president will soon be on the center stage. |
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| The wine offerings are still solid, but craft spirits are center stage, with Nielsen reconstructing vintage cocktails such as the Moscow Mule. |
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| As Nariman gradually fades away into the passive state of the bedridden invalid, the novel places Yezad on center stage. |
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| He does not take center stage and overpower the content, yet modestly hovers in the background. |
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| In the living room, a large multipaned window swagged in natural linen takes center stage. |
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| In the absence of leading seeds with first-round byes, lesser contenders took center stage on opening day. |
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| The attention felt odd as if I were an actress on center stage of an award winning play. |
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| Supply chain management has moved center stage largely because of globalization. |
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| A large sunburst with Elizabeth's rose hung over center stage and was raised and lowered with the change of scene. |
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| Best of them all was the slow pan of 59 former Oscar winning performers, who were seated in rows of chairs on the center stage. |
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| If you want to keep the pot center stage, remove the mum and replace it with a spring bloomer such as Iceland poppy or primrose. |
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| The self-absorbed men take center stage via a series of furtive crouches, runs, hops, and boxing feints. |
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| Putin, after all, is not the only cynic on center stage in the Ukraine crisis. |
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| But there she was, center stage, for the finale of the three-hour opening ceremony. |
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| The four become cytosine, guanine, adenine, and thymine, and the quantum forces that maintained the rest of universe sit on the sidelines while life take center stage. |
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| After each film snippet, the darkened stage lit up to reveal that person in the flesh, dressed in street clothes and performing one phrase, center stage, before exiting. |
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| Her entrance is made toward the strobe lights of center stage. |
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| Taking center stage in The Hague was the recreation of the G7 as a unified western bloc. |
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| When the fools have gone home, the politicians take over center stage, although some sharp-tongued critics say there is scarcely any difference between the two. |
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| Combine it with other pigments to achieve glittering effects across the color spectrum or let it take center stage. |
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| For years I missed no opportunity to serve as their voice and bring it to center stage as if I had been appointed to be their roving ambassador. |
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| The flight from risky assets was a positive for the yen as risk aversion took center stage. |
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| The Yen seems to be trading on unsteady ground as uncertainty in the financial world reappears on center stage. |
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| I was also happy to learn that these games were held in Halifax this year, allowing other Atlantic Francophone communities to take center stage. |
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| Both venues are open to the general public and both Coast Guard Auxiliaries will have center stage. |
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| As those synths slide out of range, a cranky whiplash beat briefly takes center stage before relenting to blue-lit micro-beats and gurgling plinks. |
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| On Wednesday night in Rennes, for a time, Royal was once again center stage. |
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| At center stage an acoustic guitar lay face down with careful incisions evenly spaced along the back of its neck, so that it arched up and backward, swanlike. |
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| Today, the issue of energy is more than ever the focus of many discussions is the ideal opportunity for geothermal power back on center stage. |
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| Other songs recall Joy Division and Depeche Mode, as his brittle voice tiptoes to center stage with only a spare backing of guitars and drum loops. |
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| He struts with imperial stride to the wharf and down center stage. |
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| The set designed by Rosas consisted of gauzy drapery of brilliant yellow hung in scallops across the center stage, while a somber gray archway loomed behind it upstage center. |
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| The security questions and blame game will now take center stage in the embassy attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya. |
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| So courtiers, listening to an amazing tale, sit down on the ground across center stage in a row, the talebearer getting down similarly opposite the front man in the lineup. |
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| Assuming center stage like a troupe of cancan dancers, they expose enormous legs beneath vibrant, Pucci-patterned miniskirts that recall Nixon-era fashions. |
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| Few others could garner the national attention that Clint can, and the Republicans were right to put him center stage. |
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| One figure after another comes to center stage, dances a number, and exits. |
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| Harem pants get the center stage as the summer season is sinking in. |
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| Universal's effort to reboot one of its marquee franchises takes center stage this weekend as The Bourne Legacy opens five years after the previous installment. |
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| As usual, Joan Armour was present at center stage or behind the scenes, as necessary, to keep the logistics manageable, the computers humming, and the coffee urns flowing. |
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| At the end he stands center stage to receive the applause, patient and stone-faced, impassive under the weight of all these strangers and their love. |
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| The war of words heats up on the campaign trail as the military records of U.S. presidential candidates takes center stage and both candidates talk tough on national security. |
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| Couric, armed with her blue cards, excels at eliciting information, but not at taking center stage. |
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| Traditional songs about love of God, nation, and family are now being pushed to the wayside in the world of country, as new tunes championing hedonism take center stage. |
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| Information technology is center stage here, playing an essential role in the looming End of Days. |
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| This is possible only because UA has been legalized and regulated, a reflection of the positive outcome of progressive agricultural policy formulation, and one in which innovators take center stage. |
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| Because although spectacular attacks have returned to center stage, this is certainly as much related to a domestic and purely national agenda as it is to any desire to fit into a global strategy. |
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| Place the center stage is a relatively long but easy! |
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| The daily reality of health care has also evolved, the health system is at the heart of debate,and research ethics has known an ever increasing interest, taking center stage. |
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| Today's great difficulty is to define the new rules of a game that has changed but that continues to see the former leading powers occupying center stage. |
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| The economics of culture, long disregarded, is now gaining center stage. |
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| India said reliance on markets is insufficient, and governments will have to take center stage in financing climate change technologies and adaptation. |
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| Let your brand take center stage with Zazzle's minimized header, zBar. |
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| Many years before the subjects of today's debates were center stage, the struggles of the Third World focused on equally agonizing problems like the unequal exchange. |
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| Our denim takes center stage in the form of dip dyed jackets, ombre chambray button ups. |
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| It was an honor to have in our stand Bonnet Maestro, the provider each year of the center stage piano, and who provided us with planchas for our foie gras demonstrations. |
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| By including live video footage of the spectator within an installation, the artist suddenly shines a spotlight on the spectator which places them at center stage. |
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| Above: In addition to displays and exhibits, the Global Church Village also featured a center stage for afternoon performances by choirs, dance troupes, and other groups. |
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| By mid-May, the smallmouths will be on their beds and share center stage, along with big white perch. |
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| Food is at center stage at Pencenzo, décor a mere spear carrier. |
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| The malingerer, Stefan Kollmuss is perfectly suited for center stage attention. He suffers, moans and shouts his way through the evening, and with his tricks successfully leads the couple from one exasperation to the next. |
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| Leading off the album with an instrumental is a smart choice, because it gives the band a chance to shine before vocalist Myra Graverobber takes center stage. |
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| On the first night of Passover, the seder plata takes center stage. |
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| Delightful and colorful trees created from French macarons, lemon Madeleines, and cream puffs will take center stage at any dessert table or reception. |
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| That's when the role of dieting takes center stage, according to Karen Arnold, chief of Nutrition and Food Service at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. |
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| Brief treatments of standpoint theory, liberationism, and feminism introduce the book, but her interlocutors' incisive interpretations of Scripture take center stage. |
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| A ghost writer no more, Cagan recounts her own life stories with disarming honesty and authenticity as she steps out of the shadows and onto center stage. |
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| And maybe Republican nativists will be relegated to the kookier AM frequencies of talk radio, with the party's more sensible voices taking center stage in this debate. |
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| Rehabilitation for older people with acquired dual impairments has recently moved to center stage because of the increasing number of clients who require such services. |
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