Sentence examples for backdrop gained from inspiring English sources

Though hardly a hotbed of crime and drugs, Woodberry's brutalist backdrop gained a degree of notoriety as the set for the Warsaw ghetto in "Schindler's List", a film about the second world war.

This paper is set against a backdrop of gaining planning approval and funding for the Hamma Water Desalination Plant.

Her song Ain't There Anyone Here for Love?, performed in a gymnasium against a backdrop of dancing athletes, gained her a large gay following.

Stocks have gained against a backdrop of low borrowing costs and a slow but steady economic recovery.

John Donnolly, head of Marketing Edinburgh, said: "Edinburgh is a magnificent city and has gained enormously by being the backdrop for the international media covering the referendum.

Against the backdrop of increasing hateful rhetoric in the U.S. media, we gained additional strength and skills to confront the growing hate.

Yet against this bleak backdrop, United States stocks have returned 15 percent, on average, this year, while those in Europe have gained 18 percent and Asian stocks are up more than 12 percent.

The trial is widely seen as a means of discrediting an opposition leader who has gained increasing support since Vladimir Putin returned to the Russian presidency against a backdrop of unprecedented protests last year.

Against the backdrop of Phoenix's reinvigorated housing market, Obama will also tout refinancing proposals that gained little traction on Capitol Hill when he first unveiled them last year.

The mountain lion, known as P-22, gained widespread attention earlier this year when a trail-camera photo shot against the backdrop of the Hollywood sign revealed a 4-year-old, 125-pound cougar that had made the urban park its home.

Oil-rich Azerbaijan gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 amid political turmoil and against a backdrop of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh.