Sentence examples for a backdrop of efforts from inspiring English sources

Questions about this match are being raised against a backdrop of efforts to clean up boxing.

But against a backdrop of urgent efforts to get children off the couch, improve schools' nutritional offerings and drive down soda consumption, something happened between 2005 and 2010 that's scarcely been seen for more than 30 years among the nation's young teens: Obesity rates held steady at 12.7% for this age group nationally.

The alliance between PalmSource, a soon-to-be-spun-out subsidiary of Palm, and Good Technology GTT) is taking place against a backdrop of aggressive legal efforts being taken by Research In Motion against GT.

The federal government's treatment of gay and lesbian relationships has been a matter of sharp dispute against the backdrop of efforts to legalize same-sex marriage.

It also comes against the backdrop of efforts by conservative activists and media outlets to throw back at the Obama administration the charges of politicizing the Justice Department that were made against the Bush administration.

All the buying and selling occurred against the backdrop of efforts by the United States and Britain to gain support in the United Nations Security Council for a new resolution that would set a firm deadline for the disarmament of Iraq, with a war to follow if it did not comply.

Amid a febrile atmosphere before the Fifa Congress at which president Sepp Blatter is next week expected to seek support to stand for another four years, despite the disapproval of Uefa and a backdrop of corruption allegations, Platini said "every effort had been made" to discredit the Frenchman over the past year.

Considerable effort has gone into instilling a backdrop of choice and consequence.

Royce would not accept their notion that human efforts are finally absurd, unfolding against a backdrop of a meaningless and indifferent universe.

The timing of the announcement came against a backdrop of Afghan suspicions that Pakistan has been conspiring to undermine Mr. Karzai's efforts to reach a political solution to the Afghanistan war.

The lack of marked improvement in CDP capacity between 2004 and 2010 against a backdrop of initiatives favourable to strengthening the preventive health system in Canada suggests that efforts may have fallen short.