Sentences with phrase «oil prospector in»

The 2007 period drama about a driven, single - minded oil prospector in the southern California oil boom was chosen by critics from Total Film magazine.

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Biographie, he comes across like the demonic oil prospector Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood when he writes, «The struggle for victory is fun, but I can't celebrate something once it's been won.»

It is rather regrettable that when the military had prepared for a massive onslaught with a declared 40 days ultimatum for a major arrest, Nigerian troops escorting oil prospectors and geologists were ambushed by the terrorists in the state.

Scientists and oil prospectors have drilled the crater in the past, but the International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 364 was the first to explore Chicxulub's central peak ring.

This is bad news for oil prospectors drilling in permafrost: if they encounter a pocket of hydrates, the released methane could rupture their drilling equipment.

Set at the turn of the previous century in the early days of oil exploration, the film shows grimy prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) climbing from dark shafts into the blinding desert sunlight.

It was the 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair set in California at the turn of the century among oil prospectors scrambling to buy up the fields.

Among the multiple lines of critical and cultural discourse surrounding the film, however, one particularly stands out: the notion of There Will Be Blood — with its central conflict between cutthroat oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) and zealous small - town preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) in 1911 California — as a kind of demonic origin tale for the state of contemporary American political culture, with narrow - minded religious fervor and bald - faced capitalistic excesses forming two sides of the same tarnished coin.

Loggers on the Ottawa River or in the British Columbia wilderness, western settlers living off of and clearing prairie land to prepare it for farming, gold prospectors in the Klondike, oil sands pioneers punching holes in the boreal forest — all of them became intimate with Canadian nature even as they transformed it from ecology to commodity.

The Guardian article, «Palm oil risk to Africa as prospectors eye swaths of land,» describes how plantations not only fail to deliver on the promise of jobs, but also hamper food security in the long run:

Once inside the Utah offices of the federal Bureau of Land Management, DeChristopher joined oil and gas prospectors in the bidding, raising a white laminated card with the number 70 in big black letters.