Sentence examples for alarming backdrop from inspiring English sources

With this alarming backdrop, what can the Durban conference achieve?

Against this alarming backdrop, the Obama Administration is surprisingly cutting funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria -- the single largest external contributor to global efforts to fight tuberculosis (TB) and MDR-TB.

Against this backdrop of malnutrition levels accepted as "normal" or "structural", i.e. considered as customary for the country, alarming signs came up in increasing numbers in 2004-2005 and converged in the agricultural areas of Zinder and Maradi, along the Nigerian border.

How alarming.

Not alarming.

Intelligent Alarming.

Turkey's western allies are alarmed, but against a complex geopolitical backdrop, they have chosen discretion rather than valour.

While the case reports now believed to have been prepared by Mr. Hindi and others are more than three years old, American officials continue to describe their existence as providing ample reason for current alarm against the backdrop of separate but more general intelligence suggesting that Al Qaeda may be preparing to carry out a major attack soon in the United States.