Sentence examples for a background of mounting from inspiring English sources

The discovery in April 2008 came against a background of mounting tensions between the Beirut government and the Iranian-backed Shia organisation, which escalated into street fighting in the capital just weeks later.

The commission, the European Union's executive, made the proposals in Strasbourg against a background of mounting concerns in the Union on how to balance protecting privacy with combating terrorism.

With its sinuous, billowing shape and its 15,000 aluminum discs mounted on a background of Yves Klein blue, the department store is intended to evoke the cry "What in the world is that?" The creators of the new $20 bill, on the other hand, hoped to reassure, not bewilder or astonish.

A background of anguish that prevailed.

Draw a background of this Ladybug.

The meeting took place against the background of the mounting tensions in the Middle East, the concentration of a massive Egyptian force in the Sinai Peninsula, the closing of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and the threats by President Gamal Abdel Nasser to destroy the State of Israel.

In the mid-1990's, when my mother first became a subject of the Women's Health Initiative study, of which the low-fat study was a part, she complained after her first orientation session, "They make no distinction between lard and olive oil!" A slim, healthy senior citizen with no medical background, she was already aware, a decade ago, of mounting evidence that all fats are not equal.

"Digging deep into the defendant's background is at the core of mounting a defence: you have to persuade the jurors the defendant is not a monster, but a fellow human being," said Professor O'Brien.

In response to this challenge, and on the basis of mounting evidence that a rural background leads to more students opting for a career in rural practice [ 1, 2], the University of Western Australia (UWA) began a Rural Student Recruitment program [ 3].

Figure 1 Schematic illustration of mounting a MINUSHEET® tissue carrier.

It accused the U.S. of mounting an unprovoked attack.