Sentence examples for backdrop of clashes from inspiring English sources

In predominantly Kurdish South-eastern Turkey, soccer pitches have moreover become venues for the assertion of Kurdish identity against the backdrop of clashes between security forces, fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), and Kurdish youth with Amedspor SK.

In these mysterious places, people mingle in a caldron of exuberance and suffering, against a backdrop of clashing architecture and sensuous detail.

Ministers point to the backdrop of street clashes between Catholics and Protestants, and the loyalist paramilitary violence which has continued through the summer.As published, the proposals offered less to unionists than to nationalists and republicans.

Against a backdrop of violent clashes in a number of provinces and several weeks of deadly attacks on the capital, military leaders lowered the flag of a mission conceived in 2001, and hoisted the colours of a new one under which Nato's role will largely be restricted to training, advising and assisting the local army and police.

Against the backdrop of military clashes, between 9 January and 20 February 1978, Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Phan Hien made several trips to Beijing to hold discussions with representatives of the Kampuchean Government, which ultimately proved to be fruitless.

Cliff's book, "Holy War," claims that da Gama's arrival in the East marked a turning point from Muslim to Christian ascendancy in global trade against the backdrop of an ongoing "clash of civilizations".

It is against the backdrop of this episode that disparate lives clash and merge and find solace in one another.

Koch suddenly saw the concrete against the backdrop of lower Manhattan, its rough edges clashing with the crystalline towers.

The political clashes come against the backdrop of increasing economic uncertainty for most Venezuelans.

Library footage of clashes from 18 February.

The clashes took place against a backdrop of multiple human rights abuses by the authorities which have driven a wedge between army generals and revolutionaries in recent months.