The song, the first tune to be played on Radio 1 when it was launched in 1967, catapulted the group to stardom. |
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It is not unusual for places to be catapulted to stardom thanks to the medium of TV or cinema. |
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It is this no-nonsense approach that has catapulted her to the top slot in the premier industrial forum. |
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The pint-sized pugilist carved a niche in the local professional fight game, a victory which catapulted him into the record books. |
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Fierce winds, a bit of stinging rain, a bit of slushy snow, the sun bursting through the gaps in the clouds as they catapulted across the sky. |
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Or maybe the people buying this atrocity are the same humourless sad sacks who catapulted Mr. Blobby to the top of the charts a decade ago. |
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Rob Hayles catapulted across our Olympic consciousness at the end of a harum-scarum event called the Madison. |
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Two of the victims were killed instantly when the force of the collision catapulted them through the rear window of the car. |
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The young artist found himself catapulted onto the small screen interviewing painters, dancers and rock stars. |
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As leader of the successful boycott, King found himself catapulted to national prominence. |
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Then he sped off as they were catapulted out of their car and it crashed into two trees, York Crown Court heard. |
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Like other developing countries, Bangladesh catapulted into the global economy on the back of its cheap, plentiful labour force. |
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If that is done as a joint venture, they could well find themselves catapulted into the limelight on more than one front. |
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The man ran well for his size, and just before the guards could reach out to him, catapulted around a lamppost and went off on a tangent. |
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He's catapulted into old age to experience the last days of his life, and the teenage hellion he once was turns up in the here and now. |
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A missile catapulted from the Columbia's missile tube and fired its rocket motor. |
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The car was catapulted into the air and the mangled wreckage came down in long grass at the side of the track. |
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His sultry looks and sinuous movements were his passport to Hollywood, where his first leading roles in 1921 catapulted him to fame. |
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The planes were catapulted to search and attack the German U-boat wolf packs that were sinking droves of ships in convoys. |
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In 1346, Caffa was under siege by the Tartars who catapulted plague-ridden corpses over the city walls in an effort to flush out the inhabitants. |
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This incident catapulted the opposition into more open and defiant resistance. |
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These numbers catapulted them to the very top of the hit parade and made them household names. |
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After this first in-your-face scene, we are catapulted wide-eyed and open-mouthed into a post-apocalyptic London, 28 days after the outbreak. |
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The sharp vocals and beat alone could have catapulted this song into some level of stardom. |
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When he is forced into battle, he hides inside a cannon, and is catapulted into the tent of the enemy's general staff. |
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My breath was stuck in my stomach, my limbs benumbed, my senses catapulted into a no-go area where terror meets exhilaration. |
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The growing spending power of the UK's Premiership stars has catapulted 21 new players onto the list. |
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Their work catapulted them to the world centrestage, where they were surrounded by adulation and enmity at the same time. |
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One car even catapulted a telegraph pole into her house in the latest collision at the weekend. |
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That victory also catapulted India's cricketers from mere stars to major celebrities. |
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Foreign policy issues following 11 September catapulted two women office-holders in particular into the public eye. |
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His entire being had been drained by the immense blast he'd unleashed on the assaulting legions, but Rakael's desperate cry for help had catapulted him out of his repose. |
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Accidents over recent months have shown that many people have died because they were catapulted out of coaches that had been overturned. |
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Flames, which boiled in the crowns of Douglas fir and ponderosa pines, catapulted forward on heavy winds partly of the fire's own making-a classic crown fire. |
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His recent success has catapulted him into the running for a coveted spot on the International Race Of Champions circuit, an honor never before bestowed on a drag racer. |
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This monumental work, whose turbulent rhythms and harmonies catapulted it into a whole new musical sphere, is one of Beethoven's masterpieces. |
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Covered by Elvis Presley, Tutti Frutti catapulted Richard into the front rank of the new movement. |
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In an instant, you are catapulted elsewhere, kept at a distance, in a mental ambulation. |
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Truffaut's film soon proved a box office smash in the States, and Aznavour was suddenly catapulted to fame in America. |
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Both had eccentric personalities and meteoric careers that catapulted them briefly and dazzlingly into the limelight, then fizzled. |
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During a sandstorm, he finds himself catapulted into a beautiful garden and facing the destruction of the tree of life. |
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So Bull has been catapulted into the big league of HPC, with a technological potential recognized worldwide. |
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In the 14th century during a siege of Kaffa, which is now the Ukraine, the Tartars catapulted bodies infected with the plague over the town walls. |
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Carlyle was already famous through Trainspotting and the TV series Hamish Macbeth, but The Full Monty has catapulted him into a media madhouse. |
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Fishing close to the margins with meat, Dallton was bagging the odd nice carp until the intervention of a beast of 15-10 catapulted him to the top of the prize list. |
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Had I suddenly found myself catapulted forward in time to Christmas? |
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The song catapulted Ms. Jepsen, apple-cheeked and giggly at 26, from obscurity to worldwide fame. |
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Now a fast food chain, of all places, has dusted off the idea and catapulted it into the information age. |
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Ian was amazed at the speed at which he had catapulted back to reality. |
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Although most fleet Kingfishers were catapulted from the fantails of battleships and cruisers, the Navy also tried mounting them on the stern of destroyers. |
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What is the significance of the ten years since Russia was suddenly catapulted into the free market and into contact with western values? |
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Another hour of freezing rain would have catapulted the province into total disaster. |
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The collapse of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s catapulted the United States to the position of being the only super-power. |
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His work also catapulted him into a media frenzy, something he was initially reluctant to be part of. |
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But it was the deregulation of the market in 1997 that catapulted Tango to the head of the ranks. |
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Images of starving children, dead livestock and desolate land quickly grabbed the world's attention and catapulted desertification centre stage. |
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Suicide terrorism has catapulted this hostility against the West to new heights. |
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Danger from parts of foreign particles being catapulted out of the machine. |
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Satellites, the Internet, television, faxes and telephones have catapulted Aboriginal society into the global village. |
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A number of passengers had been catapulted through the windows, in one instance with tragic results. |
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At the age of 9, Daniel Radcliffe was catapulted towards Harry Potter and Hollywood immortality by a single, instinctive wink. |
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It was an amazing acting feat that catapulted him from gifted character actor to A-list leading man. |
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His daredevil talent catapulted him to global fame as one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time. |
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The rise of the Zulu Kingdom under Shaka in the 1790s and early 1800s catapulted the minor Zulu chiefdom into the dominant regional power among hundreds of others. |
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According to conventional accounts, the city's radicalized population catapulted the Guomindang northward in 1926 on a political and military mission to reunify the nation. |
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Their car was catapulted into a tree after being shunted from behind by a van driven by a man so drunk he could not walk in a straight line, a court heard yesterday. |
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Importantly, the tight money had always created pent-up demand in these three categories, which promptly catapulted the economy upward when monetary policy eased. |
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The force sliced the roof off the car and catapulted Gail into the road. |
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He will be catapulted closer to his second crack at the lucrative belt. |
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The single, written as a crowd-pleaser, was the band's first hit and it catapulted them into mags, on to TV and got them two gigs with the Beatles. |
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Some of the logs were catapulted over the train and parts of the truck came to rest protruding underneath and beyond the rail car to the west side of the crossing. |
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Three generations of transport experience, an ardent passion for the business and a continuous quest for innovation have catapulted Marcotran to a leading position in Spain's transport and logistics market. |
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Stepping up the fight again poverty and inequity through child sensitive programs to prevent adolescents from being prematurely catapulted into adulthood. |
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The film which catapulted him to international fame, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, used a colourful and exuberant filming style making Pedro Almodovar something of a reference in the filmmaking industry. |
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It's unlikely Gers will be catapulted back into the SPL bearing in mind some of the dingbats involved. |
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When the chattering individual mind stops, as it does in deep Meditation, one's perception can be catapulted, so to say, through the fissure of the mind into Reality. |
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Shoring up Bahrain's attacking line alongside Belgium-based Jaycee John is the dynamic Ismail Abdullatif, scorer of the dramatic injury-time equaliser against Saudi Arabia which catapulted the Bahrainis into the play-off. |
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The candidate selection for running mate has catapulted her to the national scene. |
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It's why vast multiuser online games like World of Warcraft have flourished and why the anonymous video-chatting site Chatroulette catapulted in popularity. |
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She has enchanted the world with a combination of exquisite grace, strong personality and spell-binding acting, ever since she catapulted to international fame with her first lead role in Red Sorghum. |
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In the wink of an eye, your company is catapulted back to the middle ages. |
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After being catapulted into the limelight in the wake of the Sudamericano, he received a phone call from his coach at Colo Colo, Claudio Borghi, on the subject of his new hair cut. |
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Made up of turkey, cornbread dressing with gravy, buttered peas and sweet potatoes, this meal catapulted Swanson into the leading brand that it is today. |
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At the last moment, the pair are catapulted forwards over a hundred years to modern London, and into the crosshairs of the FBI's youngest and mouthiest agent, Chevron Savano. |
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At independence in 1961, the drive for indigenization meant that nationals with little more than secondary level qualifications were catapulted to top positions. |
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Adeola Fayehun's ambush of ageing Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has catapulted the queen of Nigerian satire, already a star in many countries in Africa, into the international spotlight. |
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Tempted to England for a trial at Sheffield Wednesday, he was signed by Leeds United in February 1992 and in little more than a dozen games catapulted them to league champions – and himself to star status. |
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From running a successful scuba-diving business on Cyprus, the mother-of-two found herself catapulted into a world of grief, unable to even visit the ornate, two-storey villa the couple had bought on the island. |
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The mid-January performance on Red Square, brazen in its choice of location and lyrics, catapulted the all-female punk band into the pantheon of Russia's increasingly creative protest movement. |
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We've also optioned the English comedy novel This is Your Life by John O' Farrell, about an unknown, wannabe comedian catapulted into stardom without having really accomplished anything. |
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And Astonvilla's fanbase, who had turned out in force to see them in concert over the years were, after all, the ones who had catapulted them to media attention. |
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Higher education has catapulted me through class and income categories. |
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The impact of these corporate meltdowns has been immense and the risks associated with corporate governance have been catapulted into the consciousness of business leaders everywhere. |
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Korea has catapulted itself back into the consumer era, especially for electronic, audiovisual and computer products, which are constantly changing markets. |
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So that's how we got to where we are today: a lot of organic growth, and then we were catapulted to a larger global position through this merger with Loral. |
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She catapulted to the national scene following her selection by the candidate. |
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In response to the global terrorist onslaught that beset the turn of the 21st century, the intelligence services of democracies, including Canada, have been catapulted to the forefront of public attention. |
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of communism had catapulted these countries into a new era of rapid political, economic and social change. |
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Their business model of the 1920s and 1930s, which had catapulted the business to undreamt-of heights, had then turned into something of a ball and chain. |
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Albert didn't notice the switch, the subliminal flash and hiccup in time as the man he had been talking to only seconds before was catapulted backwards half an hour. |
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Nimoy was catapulted to fame for his portrayal of the pointy-eared science officer Mr Spock in the cult TV series, first launched in the 60s and followed by a string of films. |
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When that round hit the building, it looked like God himself came down and pimp-slapped him off the building. He just flew sideways like he was catapulted into orbit. |
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The novel catapulted him from unknown to best-selling author. |
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