"We have certainly never had a recession against a backdrop of a collapse in oil prices, while those from 1973 onwards were all preceded by a surge," Magnus pointed out in a post for the British magazine Prospect.
Lord Wolfson, the chief executive of Next and a prominent Vote Leave supporter, spoke against the backdrop of a collapse in the value of the pound that will increase sourcing costs for retailers who import goods in dollars.
The designer, Wolfgang Joop, was inspired by Portuguese gardens and created an abstract version of a collapsing greenhouse as a backdrop to his mad mix of vivid prints and candy cane stripes.
Advertisers, trying to sell their wares against a backdrop of collapsing 401(k) plans, lost jobs and foreclosed houses, have adopted a tone that is a jangle of mournful compassion and forced good cheer.
After a big Democratic field narrowed to just two, he defeated Senator Clinton of New York in a pitched presidential primary battle and then beat Senator John McCain of Arizona in a general election conducted against the backdrop of a national economic collapse.
I was writing a condition-of-England novel set against a backdrop of the collapse of the steel industry and the miners' strike.
All year there have been doubts, played out against a backdrop of institutional collapse; there has been bad luck but the planning has been appalling and the price being paid is a high one.
Events on track are taking place against the backdrop of a row over F1 finances in the wake of the collapse of the Marussia and Caterham teams in the last two weeks.
PAGE A13 Zimbabwe Arrests Peddlers Against a backdrop of mounting economic collapse, the police in Zimbabwe say they have arrested nearly 15,000 street merchants.
A1 Zimbabwe Arrests Vendors The police in Zimbabwe, against a backdrop of mounting economic collapse, say they have arrested nearly 15,000 street merchants since late September in a reprise of a campaign in May that cleared destitute squatters and vendors from urban areas.
