Given this growing sense of conviction — of the need to take a "fronting-up, out-there leadership position and stake it all on winning" — it was no surprise that Blair was strongly on the side of going to war in Afghanistan and then, much more controversially, in Iraq.
The backyard orchard makes sense, given the growing popularity of the local-food movement.
Absurdly bright lighting adds to the growing sense of inauthenticity.
The growing sense of profits overruling passions didn't help.
Rather, the lesson is that given the growing value of our data, it makes sense to avoid putting all of your eggs in one basket.
Given the growing chill and a restless crowd, it would have made sense to begin with a song reminding the audience that a Big Deal Rock Star was at work.
People in the health care industry say the giving reflects a growing sense that the Democrats are in a strong position to win the White House next year.
Given Turkey's growing sense of its own importance, Mr. Erdogan might have been difficult to ignore in any event.
When they find themselves together in the cemetery, wandering among the gravestones and comparing their losses, the antagonism gives way to a growing sense of camaraderie in their mutual acceptance of life's sadness, and the long, inescapable shadow of mortality.
While Catherine's policy led some peoples to accept (more or less under duress) changes in their way of life, thus facilitating the extension of Russian agricultural settlements onto the open steppes, it also gave rise to a growing sense of identity based on cultural, linguistic, and religious traditions.
