Sentence examples for turbulent background from inspiring English sources

Then we will have development".Against this turbulent background, President Obasanjo is determined to increase Nigeria's oil production from 2m to 4m barrels a day by 2010, and proven reserves from about 25 billion to 40 billion barrels.

The 20th anniversary of his death has seen a torrent of comment against an unusually turbulent background: high tension over the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif site in East Jerusalem and the deaths of 50 Palestinians and 10 Israelis in the last month.

The dispersion of the secondary-phase particles, due to the velocity fluctuation of the turbulent background phase, is computed by using the DRW model.

This purely hydrodynamic instability, which rapidly emerges above the turbulent background, has a wavelength that is much longer than the hole diameter of the perforated plate.

Her turbulent background has kept her levelheaded and in the right mindset to work with high and ultra-high net worth clientele, a trait that was molded in a bomb shelter when she was a kid.

His career has been marked by his turbulent family background and volatile personality: his father, Ronald O'Sullivan Sr, served 17 years for murder, while O'Sullivan himself acknowledged severe addictions to drink and drugs, and "retired" for a year from professional snooker in 2012.

Carl Zimmer's illuminating book charts a fascinating chapter in the soul's journey; it is distilled from the writings of Oxford's 17th-century "virtuosi," depicted against the turbulent, sometimes tormented, background of the English Civil War, the plague and the Great Fire of London.

The development of the action on two planes, one political and historical, the other psychological, is masterly and is set against a background of turbulent events and ruthless ambitions.

In works from the 1880s like "Eight Bells" (1886), in which one sailor in rain gear takes readings with a sextant while another makes notes in the log against a background of turbulent sea and sky, men are heroic explorers of the uncharted wild.

"Against a turbulent market and economic background, Man's funds under management have declined in the period principally as a result of continued net outflows and the deleveraging of our guaranteed products," Man Group's chief executive, Peter Clarke, said in a statement.

In the same year he married the beautiful Clementine Hozier; it was a marriage of unbroken affection that provided a secure and happy background for his turbulent career.