"with this backdrop" is a perfectly valid phrase in written English.
It is used to indicate that a particular set of conditions or facts form the context for whatever is coming next. For example, "With this backdrop, it is clear that the economy is facing some serious challenges."
With this backdrop, he tells an impossible love story in vivid colours.
With this backdrop, it was difficult, over the years until his death in 2005, to hold on to the residual affection I had for him as just my dad.
"With this backdrop, the question of whether Mr. Kishk intended to learn to fly went directly to the question of whether Kishk intended to gain access to the cockpit and then assume control of that jetliner".
With this backdrop, it is impossible to have strong consumer confidence.
With this backdrop, in our previous work [35], we made an initial attempt towards the sparse representation of BSIF.
With this backdrop, this study evaluates the likely impacts of the CPTPP on the regional trade flows and other macroeconomic aggregates of Pakistan using a global computable general equilibrium model.
The plan may be unworkable, but it is likely to prove popular with the mass of retail investors and therefore with politicians too.Against this backdrop, you would have thought that Mr Pitt would tread carefully in choosing a chairman for the accounting oversight board.
It was against this backdrop – with people buckling under the strain of fitness-for-work WCA tests and escalating benefit sanctions – that activists sought help beyond the UK.
Against this backdrop, with companies openly conceding that they are failing to protect users, the idea that it's really bullies such as Yiannopoulos who are being persecuted is laughable.
Against this backdrop, with just one month until election day and one day until the second presidential debate, a growing chorus of senior Republicans – if not party leadership – called for Trump to let his running mate take over.
And while demonstrators thronged Cairo last week, Mike Huckabee, who may seek the Republican presidential nomination again, was declaring from Israel that it was "racist" to stop Jews settling in the West Bank.Against this backdrop, with a Republican House and a presidential election less than two years away, Israeli fears of abandonment look unwarranted.
