Sentence examples for an essential backdrop from inspiring English sources

But an essential backdrop to many of the reactions to recent terror is France's history, which ties its domestic politics to the turmoil of the Arab world like those of no other European state.

"The Kabul setting is an essential backdrop to our efforts to emphasise Afghan ownership of their destiny; the venue will capture their people's pride, imagination, and sense of national ownership", Eikenberry argued.

It has no tree, but Frank Knox's set design for the Forum revival has a bridge -- and a pawn shop, an essential backdrop for a super song in the first scene, "Mine Till Monday," wherein, after the first number, "Payday Is Saturday," everyone in the neighborhood seems to get a watch out of hock for the weekend.

The role misguided certainty played in the credit bubble and eventual collapse is regularly forgotten but an essential backdrop in I.O.U.

Analyzing the function of song and its evolution as a communication signal provides an essential backdrop for understanding the physiological and neural mechanisms responsible for song learning, perception, and production.

So Los Angeles was an essential backdrop for the film.

The essential backdrop never varies: a lawn, a bridge, a fountain, a pond or water view, an arbor or gazebo, some white pillars.

What's missing, disturbingly, are the figures we think of as the essential backdrop of the Dora story.

This is the essential backdrop to the Court's consideration of the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8.

(That forms the essential backdrop to the Cif debate about China's longer-term future, which seems at the moment to take too little account of economic, social and political realities).

Thus, neither London nor Napoleon are fictional entities, although the first is the quite essential backdrop to what goes on in the Holmes stories while the second plays an important role in the events described in War and Peace.