Sentence examples for backdrop for debate from inspiring English sources

The legislature commissioned the $1.4 million study to provide a thorough and unbiased backdrop for debate over whether to lift the moratorium.

Second, the depiction reflects a widely shared assumption, one which forms part of the backdrop for debates about the nature of moral motivation, namely, that moral motivation is a strikingly regular and reliable phenomenon.

The grounds of the hotel in Mongla where the debate was staged formed a dramatic backdrop for the debate.

"The backdrop for that debate is shifting," he said.

The ACMG report has since been the backdrop for considerable debate about the presumptive benefits of newborn screening.

The immediate backdrop for the debate is Israel's unilateral withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000.

Judeo-Christian teachings, interpreted as condemning homosexuality, provided the backdrop for political debate in a nation more religious than others in the industrialized world.

As suggested by the question to Mr. Ferrer, the attack on the World Trade Center set the backdrop for the debate between these two candidates.

The review board has provided a backdrop for the debate in recent years over whether the Police Department adequately investigates and disciplines officers accused of brutality.

The bipartisanship exhibited in the passage of two other ambitious domestic programs that offer one historical backdrop for this debate — Social Security in 1935 and Medicare and Medicaid 30 years later — seems increasingly improbable in today's Washington.

Democrats have heavily criticized Snyder, and used the beleaguered city of 100,000 as a backdrop for their debate on Sunday.