Sentence examples for a bleak backdrop from inspiring English sources

But it all but closed in 2007 when the economy soured, pitching dozens of workers into the ranks of the unemployed, and the plant now functions mainly as a bleak backdrop to Ms. Flaherty's restaurant, the Southside Cafe, where diners gaze out at its red brick walls.

Like all of Mr. To's films, it's a celebration of motion, as cars weave through crowds, and cops and drug mules engage in a balletic chase across a crowded expressway, all against a bleak backdrop of toll stations and dark roadside encampments.

While negative global economic conditions present a bleak backdrop, analysts and businessmen say that some of the immediate loan problems can be traced to a paralyzed central government, corruption-related losses, sector blowups and misguided policies that have left even decently performing companies at the mercy of the whims of various government agencies.

Yet the grim forecasts presented to Hammond by the Office for Budget Responsibility amount to a bleak backdrop for the EU negotiations: growth down by 2.4%; borrowing up by £122bn (according to the Resolution Foundation's instant sums); and national debt climbing to 90.2% of GDP in 2017-18.

The vote, the first by a rent board made up mainly of appointees of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, came against a bleak backdrop of budget cuts, pending tax increases, a subway fare increase, the city's struggling economy and the lingering effects of the 9/11 terrorist attack.

The impeachment proceedings in Washington draw a bleak backdrop to trading, although the President's struggle for survival hasn't moved markets much yet.

No electricity… It's a bleaker backdrop than usual against which Icelandic cop Andri and his colleagues work through their emotional issues.

He does something that Spencer Tracey used to do - make you believe that against a very bleak backdrop something good can come out of terrible circumstances.

Nationalisation would probably also lead to the removal of both institutions' managements, and undermine the cosy ties the agencies have long had with Congress.This comes against an increasingly bleak backdrop.

The decision comes against a bleak background.

Against that bleak backdrop, a crisis struck at the end of 2007.