If you throw the spotlight on something, you make it draw publicattention.
例句
Hamas' objective was to throw the spotlight on the government's inabilityto control the situation while at the same time portraying itself as the truepower in Palestinian.
GRE
The lionization of Vladimir Nabokov as one of North America's literarygiants has thrown the spotlight on his peripheral activities and has thus servedto foreground his efforts as an amateur entomologist.