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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The bar itself has an under-lit agate counter that's flanked by a pair of Casa Pupo porcelain leopards a late 1970s byword in bad taste and a complete triumph in this room.
From Middlesbrough to Torbay on the Devon coast and urban Hackney (once a byword for misrule, with anarchy in the council chamber and rubbish rotting in the streets), elected mayors have done well.
Lowe's secretary will spend Monday preparing Paul Sturrock's P45 - the seventh of his tenure of a club that during the days of Ted Bates and Lawrie McMenemy was a byword in managerial stability.
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The Queen will even go to Bourke, a dusty town which is a byword in Australia for the remote outback - "Back o' Bourke" means the back of beyond or middle of nowhere in Aussie-speak.
Talleyrand's name, to admirers, was a byword for diplomatic prowess: a brilliant political mind, a negotiator of unsurpassed skill and a tireless worker for the interests of France not to overlook a fount of worldly bons mots.
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