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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a backdrop of how" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a context or setting that explains the manner or method of something.
Example: "The documentary provided a backdrop of how the community came together during the crisis."
Alternatives: "a context of how" or "a framework of how".
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"The whole debate over the last couple of weeks is playing against a backdrop of how much to increase austerity, not to invest in the economy," Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress, said last week.
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The rulemaking process comes against a backdrop of growing criticism of how well the bank has enforced its current rules.
Chief executive Sebastian James said: This has been a very good half year but there is a lot more of the year to go and a crucial Christmas to come, against a backdrop of big changes in how and when customers do their Christmas shopping.
Placing the story against a backdrop of historical shifts eloquently conveys how wars, court cases, and racism affect the individual, and how politics and prejudice can shape a family.
The case comes against a backdrop of a political debate over how to handle cases involving international terrorism.
On a mostly bare stage strewn with bottles of water and a backdrop of sound baffling, McBurney describes how McIntyre chances upon the tribe, follows its members deep into the jungle, and receives telepathic messages from the headsman.
Vieira had actually called it "a little bit of weakness" in United, though that is fairly inconsequential against the backdrop of how Ferguson's eyes immediately narrowed as he cast aside a phoney war during which he has been reluctant to impugn Manchester City and at one stage banned almost every national newspaper from this event for what he felt was an exaggeration of his comments about them.
And he sets this against a backdrop of percolating ingenuity, from the story of how Borax cleaning powder came into being (one of the book's major characters is Borax Smith, the tycoon who first discovered the stuff) to the first sounds of advertising on radio waves.
Their labors played out against the backdrop of how some of their predecessors under President George W. Bush had become defined by their once-secret memos asserting a nearly unlimited view of executive authority, like that a president's wartime powers allowed him to defy Congressional statutes limiting torture and surveillance.
The question was triggered by concern over stalemate in current heat grid projects, against the backdrop of how, potentially, these types of projects could be helpful in respect of the energy transition.
Today we report exclusively on how against a backdrop of outsourcing, the Home Office may have wrongly deported hundreds of Somalis.
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