1.   An array of Navajo rugs recently held center stage in the Showcase Gallery.

2.   In hard cases, on the other hand, the negative part holds the stage.

3.   But while the famine there has held centre stage, Oxfam say many other African nations are in desperate need of help.

4.   And yet, the Americans wanted to make a statement while holding the stage.

5.   Andrew Wyeth holds center stage at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Pierre Bonnard at the Museum of Modern Art.

6.   ATLANTA - With a nation in crisis, most major media companies, including AOL Time Warner, are losing advertising revenue as nonstop news coverage holds center stage.

7.   Bill Clinton still does hold center stage in American politics.

8.   A Marxist revolutionary movement that most had thought broken resurfaced and held center stage in a Peru whose leaders were dedicated to eradicating terrorism.

9.   Cook, hardly the lithe ingenue of half a century ago, may be physically rotund, but she holds the stage with decisive, stolid grace.

10.   Every fired coach deserves to hold center stage in his final hours.