I was writing a condition-of-England novel set against a backdrop of the collapse of the steel industry and the miners' strike.
"We have certainly never had a recession against a backdrop of a collapse in oil prices, while those from 1973 onwards were all preceded by a surge," Magnus pointed out in a post for the British magazine Prospect.
All year there have been doubts, played out against a backdrop of institutional collapse; there has been bad luck but the planning has been appalling and the price being paid is a high one.
PAGE A13 Zimbabwe Arrests Peddlers Against a backdrop of mounting economic collapse, the police in Zimbabwe say they have arrested nearly 15,000 street merchants.
A1 Zimbabwe Arrests Vendors The police in Zimbabwe, against a backdrop of mounting economic collapse, say they have arrested nearly 15,000 street merchants since late September in a reprise of a campaign in May that cleared destitute squatters and vendors from urban areas.
The current crisis is taking place against a backdrop of near-economic collapse.
And truth to tell, the operas' structural similarities (collapsing emotional triangles, a backdrop of courtiers hanging around for fatal decisions being made offstage) make them less than optimal companion pieces.
The introduction in 2016 of the national living wage, against a backdrop of the existing underfunding, threatened to bring about a collapse in the sector.
His interviews, and warnings of the EU's imminent collapse, are often conducted against a backdrop of footage of police suppressing anti-austerity riots.
After a few weeks of fighting, Saddam Hussein's regime collapsed, leaving American forces to declare victory against a backdrop of disorder and uncertainty about the country's future.
