Sentence examples for a background of falling from inspiring English sources

The pilot of tablet devices comes against a background of falling IT spending at the department.

Archant follows Trinity Mirror in announcing improved profits against a background of falling revenue.

And her well-known 1920 portrait of Barney, titled "The Amazon," is done mostly in soft gray-lavenders and furlike textures against a background of falling snow.

The results will be welcomed by the Games organisers who adopted "Inspire a generation" as their motto, against a background of falling numbers of women taking up sport.

It comes against a background of falling official crime figures but also of more cuts to police funding in the next parliament with 34,000 more jobs under threat and police chiefs privately fearing the service may not be able to cope.

Against a background of falling TV and live audience figures, and with sponsorship increasingly difficult to negotiate for cash-strapped teams, F1's strategy group – consisting of the biggest teams, the sport's chief executive, Bernie Ecclestone, and the FIA president, Jean Todt – met at Biggin Hill on Thursday and came up with a few ideas to reinvigorate the sport.

The dramatic rise came against a background of falls in bonuses over the last year, suggesting recipients had been delaying collecting until the Government's cut in the top rate of income tax came into effect in April.

The steps taken since 2010 to rein in police budgets have been a necessary reaction to unsustainable budget growth, against the background of falling crime and austerity economics.

He said they would be "especially concerned about local authorities running primary care which deals with over 19 million consultations" against the background of falling investment and concerns "that local authorities would not have the necessary resources and infrastructure to deliver primary and community care".

Against a background of marching jackboots and falling bombs, the film's women look to one another for emotional sustenance, and Ms. Albou creates a marvelously fleshy, female world in the casual nakedness of the bathhouse and the ribald humor of Nour's engagement party.

Vascular disease mortality has declined rapidly in most Western countries, against a background of improved treatments and falling prevalence of smoking, but rising obesity.