The phrase "against a context" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used when discussing actions or statements that are contrary to or in opposition to a specific context or situation.
Example: "His comments were made against a context of rising tensions in the community."
Alternatives: "in contrast to the context" or "opposed to the context".
In the UK this is set against a context of women losing jobs at a higher rate than men, and over 2 million low- to middle-income families facing tax credit cuts in this week's budget.
Quatro is interesting because she plays this world of adventure and appetite against a context of theological prohibition: her female narrators and characters tend to have discernible Christian backgrounds, and their references are Bible-saturated.
These numbers are set against a context of more than 800,000 classroom staff, plus hundreds of thousands of other employees and volunteers who work for schools or with school children.
This paper explores decision-making about physiotherapy service provision in eleven rural and regional communities against a context of health care rationing.
Second, are parental monitoring, religiosity, and self-esteem protective against delinquency in a context of high adversity?
Maps allowed discussion of strategies to reduce violence against women in a context of political sensitivity about quoting summary indicator figures.
Her discussion of the victories and setbacks in the fight against TB provide a context for what she considers to be the story's main plot: how is it possible that TB remains a leading cause of death from infectious disease globally?
Newspapers will condemn his barmy outbursts against Mexicans, and then whip up the same hatred against British Muslims, safe in a context of global suffocating bigotry, but all the more comfortable for knowing that they're not quite as bad as he is.
It should serve as inspiration for a more thoroughgoing survey, one that would examine the Providence scene and aesthetic in greater detail and against a broader context of developments across the country.
In contrast to the standard theory of rational choice, where options are evaluated in isolation, we therefore provide an analysis of situations in which the options presented to an agent are evaluated against a background context provided by the agent's current plans commitments to future activities, which may themselves be only partially specified.
By accounting for the way in which South Park has moved to a shorter production schedule that allows it to consistently engage with public discourses surrounding [End Page 5] current events, we demonstrate that the program's offensive ethnic humor needs to be set against a broad context that has been previously unexamined.
