First, the global backdrop: Factors tightening supplies include harsh weather in Europe, a cutback in exports from producers like Syria, Yemen and South Sudan, growing demand from India and China, and, increasingly, international measures imposed on Iran.
Against that daunting backdrop, other factors — pre-existing monolithic contracts, a fallow farm system, freakish injuries — combined to stack the deck against Collins and his team.
Against that backdrop, several factors threw the world out of joint in radical and disturbing ways: the War in Vietnam, the countercultural revolution that engulfed so many young Americans and the Civil Rights Movement.
"Private investment, added to increasing public investment, is the substantive factors, the backdrop against which we can contribute to fighting chronic malnutrition", declared the President.
Against a backdrop of competing risk factors for high prevalence of low birth weight and ALRI, such studies would be enormously useful in India, as few such parallels exist anywhere in the world.
The 20-second clip of a mournful song, teased against a black backdrop during an X Factor advert break at the weekend, suggested that Adele was still raking over past heartbreak.
Given this backdrop, we investigate the various factors that motivate firm managers to make socially responsible investments.
1 Advanced mainly through work in developmental psychopathology, the construct of resilience has been explored in biological, psychosocial, genetic and neurobiological fields. 2 3 Resilience has been studied in the backdrop of protective and risk factors related to positive or negative psychological outcomes, and also on individual, social and ecological levels.
Saira Malik, head of equity research at TIAA-CREF, highlights a related subplot: a gradually improving economic backdrop that is not fully factored into stock valuations.
Moreover, a factor complicating the backdrop of the Hangzhou summit, is the American populist temptation, in the middle of a tough campaign leading to the presidential election on November 8, to depict China as the source of its own inadequacies and, beyond, as a generator of global disorder in a series of variations on the theme of the "China Threat".
While formal data on the country's online transit market is sparse, broader factors offer a compelling backdrop.
