Operating against the backdrop of the mess in Iraq, the continuing war in Afghanistan and the expanding federal deficits and a slow economic recovery, and as he tries to shift U.S. geo-strategic focus to East Asia and respond to the economic and military rise of China, President Obama has wisely resisted the pressure to open new military fronts in the Middle East.
The set of ten monochromatic paintings, inspired by Color Field masterworks, will operate as a backdrop to three enormous fiberglass structures -- one of which, "Squirtz", made it's public debut outside The Standard, High Line two weeks prior to his exhibition opening.
Managing director Paul Warwick said: "Our industry is operating in a mature environment, against a backdrop of a declining oil price and ever-increasing operating costs alongside falling production levels, reduction in exploration and asset integrity and maintenance issues.
Talisman Sinopec managing director Paul Warwick said: "Our industry is operating in a mature environment, against a backdrop of a declining oil price and ever-increasing operating costs alongside falling production levels, reduction in exploration and asset integrity and maintenance issues.
"Against this backdrop, we do not believe the executive branch is operating pursuant to 'secret law' or 'secret opinions of the Department of Justice,' " Mr. Weich wrote.
This, he argues, is the backdrop to the appointment of the Bank's first chief operating officer last month, Charlotte Hogg - the first senior female appointment in the Bank's history.
For the past decade the art market has operated against the dismal backdrop of so-called Holocaust art -- art seized by the Nazis from Jews in the late 1930's or during World War II.
Context does not operate as a passive backdrop to action but dynamically affects causation, as favourable or unfavourable conditions may determine whether or not a particular mechanism is triggered.
It is clear that any meaningful evaluation will need to take account of the context in which the CAB is operating and in which the research is to be carried out and the fact that against this backdrop an effective CAB will inevitably be an exercise characterized by flexibility and pragmatic judgement.
The crisis, he insisted, was merely meant to be the backdrop for a story about a handful of "complex" people — an older, wiser Gordon Gekko among them — who just happened to be operating on Wall Street around September 2008.
Microsoft's weak reception, against the backdrop of a steep decline in the overall market, came despite the company's statement that it has sold 60 million copies of its Windows Vista operating systems.
