Sentence examples for a backdrop of dysfunction from inspiring English sources

"All of this recent progress has happened against a backdrop of dysfunction," says Keith Myers, a Revenue Watch Institute consultant working with the Iraqi parliament on the oil law.Although the country's crude is abundant and cheap to produce, Iraq hardly provides the bonanza that foreign companies like BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Lukoil hoped for when they signed deals to develop its big fields.

As in "A Separation," we sense a backdrop of larger dysfunction, with a system of law and order coming unstitched at the seams.

Eigthteen months after their Oscar win for the script to The Descendants, Jim Rash and Nat Faxon take another dip in the troubled waters of family dysfunction against a backdrop of apparent ambrosia.

Critical illness is marked by organ dysfunction, the need for vital support, and a high risk of death, occurring against a backdrop of systemic immune activation.

They nuzzle against a backdrop of autumn leaves.

Onstage, they had a backdrop of elaborate lighting effects.

Grinding poverty set against a backdrop of soaring office towers.

Against a backdrop of full employment, this may seem acceptable.

The match was played against a backdrop of contentious subplots.

But they take place against a backdrop of distrust.

The elections were held against a backdrop of considerable violence.