Sentence examples for a backdrop of intensifying from inspiring English sources

The talks come against a backdrop of intensifying consolidation in Ireland's financial services industry, which faces increased competition from foreign banks.

His hurt was all the more acute because his older brother, James, the Stormont prime minister between 1969 and 1971, later made a life peer as Lord Moyola, was struggling to advance cautious reform against the stridency of his uncompromising party hardliners and a backdrop of intensifying civil disorder.

Against this backdrop of intensifying engagement, Washington's attitude has begun easing in recent weeks.

The sobriety of the scene is intensified by a backdrop of what appear to be classical Roman buildings.

What all this means is that one way or the other, you will probably hear a lot more historical comparisons as the campaign intensifies against a backdrop of lingering recession and stubborn unemployment.

The intensified diplomacy took place against a backdrop of new fighting in Syria, with conflicting reports that a sheik who is the top leader of the Nusra Front, a jihadist insurgent group that officially aligned itself with Al Qaeda last month, and which has been blacklisted by the United States, may have been wounded in a bombing by Syrian forces.

This new tactic has the potential to turn any interaction with the criminal justice system into a months-long nightmare, played out against the backdrop of an intensifying national debate on immigration.

The day seems almost perfectly still, but it is a stillness against the backdrop of steady, intensifying change.

Grinding poverty set against a backdrop of soaring office towers.

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

They nuzzle against a backdrop of autumn leaves.