Sentence examples for a familiar backdrop from inspiring English sources

The turban ban has played out against a familiar backdrop.

GOOD VISUALS The story has crowds, people in uniforms, conflict and a familiar backdrop, so TV loved it.

In the 20 years since New York State began requiring a five-cent deposit on cans and bottles, a ragged work force of thousands of collectors has become a familiar backdrop in the city, scuffling along the streets with shopping carts and plastic bags.

Speaking to a television interviewer in the kitchen of the Shalit family home, a familiar backdrop for the Israeli public from the family's five-year campaign for their son's release, Shalit was subject to repeated questioning attempting to pin him down on his political policies.

Not the harsh social landscape of modern Britain -- which functions as a convenient, familiar backdrop rather than a fully imagined environment -- so much as Mr. Considine's wearying reliance on the link between misery and authenticity.

For a while, at least, it hardly matters that his romantic story from the past is framed by a bleakly familiar backdrop of cycling controversy.

The votes played out against a now-familiar backdrop: a state government under fiscal stress, pushback against public-employee unions, and an economy struggling to create jobs.

This was not the familiar backdrop for a Girl Scout meeting.

We're saying, 'if you want to work with us, form a queue here.'" The now familiar backdrop to this move is uncertainty and pessimism about future government funding for public bodies and a London population zooming towards 10 million over the next 15 years.

"Heart of Gold" preceded "Old Man," and both found Mr. Young singing beautifully, against a familiar, rustic backdrop distinguished by Ben Keith's steel guitar playing.

Sale yards were the hub of country towns and the din of a moleskin-clad auctioneer shouting over the bleating and mooing of fattened livestock has long been a familiar rural backdrop.