Long an international byword for artistic conservatism, the Met was notoriously slow to embrace contemporary stagecraft.
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"Convergence is the byword of the mobile industry, but it doesn't always work, " notes Choong.
What is more, Sunderland for most of this season has been a byword for dullness.
As the community living in the docklands dwindled, Pat's became a byword for nerveless staff.
It is also true that India's food bureaucracy is a byword for inefficiency and corruption.
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Even Wedgwood, a byword for staid conservatism, has just launched two new ceramics ranges by contemporary artists.
The company is now a byword for marketing success, and boasts one of the world's most recognizable brand names.
They are managed by Infraero, an air-force dominated state company that is a Brazilian byword for bureaucratic obstruction and incompetence.
"You and your chancellor are but the byword for self-satisfied, smug complacency and that is the reality, " the Labour leader said.
Action has continued to be Mr. Navarro's byword since becoming Governor - action with a purpose and a distinctly different approach.
True, Japan is not exactly a byword for good corporate governance either, but the legal system there is decidedly more robust.
But in fact he had left West Bengal an economic backwater, largely shunned by foreign investors and a byword for obstreperous unionism.
Back then, Liberia was a byword for uncontrolled and environmentally devastating logging.
Sino-Forest, the forestry company whose stock plunged in June amid fraud allegations, has become a byword for questionable Chinese listings on Western exchanges.
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Quite why a country like Ukraine, hardly a byword for stability, should trade at only three percentage points over Treasuries is a mystery.
The show piece reactor at Olkiluoto-3 in Finland is years behind schedule and has become a byword for engineering incompetence on a grand scale.
The Roman Catholic church has long been a byword for conformism, but bishops complain privately that the degree of centralisation has increased during his reign.
The "I-4 Corridor" has become a byword for the suburban midsection of the state where swing voters and transplants from the Midwest often decide elections.
Suddenly, we hear of somebody from a country whose name is a byword for wealth and excess insulting one of our most beloved religious figures!
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The bank has been a byword for sound lending (see chart).
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That body was a byword for bad management and internal strife.
Iraq's biggest southern city was a byword for pleasure and vice during Saddam Hussein's rule: booze flowed freely, lubricating casinos and brothels as well as restaurants.
Steve Royston, a businessman based in Bahrain who blogs regularly on Gulf matters, believes that, though caution remains the byword, social media is a force for change.
Twenty-seven years after launching her own business, she's a byword for single-minded dedication, still creating looks that embrace the androgynous modernity with which she first made her name.
This cuddlier image has helped to dispel nasty memories of the 1970s and 1980s, when Japan's personal-loan industry was a byword for exorbitant interest rates and aggressive collection methods.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Escobar and his cartel turned Medellin into a byword for violence, and the most conservative estimates hold him responsible for some 4, 000 deaths.
If annual economic growth of over 6% is sustained, a country that not long ago was a byword for poverty can contemplate reaching middle-income levels in barely a decade.
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In recent years she has helped make Topshop a byword for fashion among both celebrities and fashion-conscious teenage girls - exactly the kind of person he needs around the group.
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In 1996, pioneering aviation firm Fokker NV, once a byword for industrial expertise, collapsed, ending 77 years of Dutch aircraft making and triggering the biggest mass redundancy in Dutch history.
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