Yet, against the backdrop of this boom is a notable gap in the knowledge on how to quantify the environmental, socioeconomic, and geopolitical impacts of dams.
Against [Jamie xx]'s booming backdrop of sub bass breakdowns, obscure samples and two-step rhythms, Scott-Heron's scarred poetic missives take on a more sinister edge".
Her new novel, Good Faith, is set against the backdrop of the 80s property boom, but her broadside against unregulated markets easily segues into an attack on what she sees as the linked themes of the Bush administration's motivation for the Iraq war and its associations with big business as typified by the disgraced Enron.
Against the backdrop of the Internet boom this strikes the newer sparks of the ad and marketing business as terribly retro.
Cain simply says, "Amidst a backdrop of the economic boom created by the Phase 1 Enhanced Plan, I will begin the process of educating the American people on the benefits of continuing the next step to the Fair Tax.
The claims and counter-claims about the state of the nation are especially confusing against the backdrop of a mining boom that is coming to an end, and the need to transition to new sources of jobs and growth.
In the end, Mr. Barbera acknowledges that "there is simply no elixir to be had that will ensure a Goldilocks backdrop" completely free of boom-and-bust economic cycles.
Against the backdrop of a nationwide construction boom, buildings all over the city are under construction or renovation.
(Holden) ★ 'THERE WILL BE BLOOD' (R, 2 38) Paul Thomas Anderson's epic American nightmare tells a story of greed and envy of biblical proportions set against the backdrop of the Southern California oil boom of the late-19th- and early-20th centuries.
Howey's enterprises prospered against the backdrop of the Florida land boom, says Peggy Beucher Clark, who has written a book about Howey-in-the-Hills, the community named after Howey.
