111.   After operating in relative obscurity for years, the board finds itself in the middle of several controversial issues that have thrust it into the spotlight.

112.   Also encouraging was the maturity of flanker Joe van Niekerk, who was plucked from relative obscurity by the previous Springbok coach Harry Viljoen into international ranks last season.

113.   But he soon slipped into relative political obscurity, partly because the office does not have many responsibilities and partly because Thompson did not share the limelight very often.

114.   Despite its relative obscurity, Khon Kaen officials are convinced they can compete with the more cosmopolitan capitals of Southeast Asia.

115.   Elchibey, head of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan, spent the past four years in relative obscurity in the village of Keleki, where he was born.

116.   He praised Vigas as an energetic man whose relative obscurity would enable him to put his stamp on policy and make the party more popular.

117.   Later, his broadcasts started in relative obscurity on CNN, where he did a daily Wall Street report after the markets closed.

118.   Sharansky immigrated to Israel, swapped his first name, Anatoly, for the Hebrew first name of Natan, and disappeared into relative obscurity.

119.   The gathering might have passed in relative obscurity, but mass arrests to stop it have caused the junta a public relations disaster.

120.   The South African emerged from relative obscurity to upset the field and win the javelin title at the World Championships in Athens, Greece, this month.