Sentence examples for backdrop of crises from inspiring English sources

The phenomenal rise of China's economic might against the backdrop of crises in the US and Europe since 2008 has given Beijing the confidence to shed Deng Xiaoping's advice to lie low and bide its time.

This debate takes place against a backdrop of crisis in the news industry.

Trusts need the freedom to grasp the nettle sooner if they are to avoid being forced to act against a backdrop of crisis.

The 68th Venice film festival opened to a backdrop of crisis in the Eurozone, swingeing government cuts to the city's maintenance grant and the inevitable, ongoing soap-operatics of Silvio Berlusconi.

Properly described, it's the story of a writer's early work and greatest triumphs, against the backdrop of some crises between his birth in 1915 and his third marriage in the early 1960s.

Given informality's normalcy and a backdrop of economic crisis, what does driving for Uber mean in Brazil?

Against this backdrop of permanent crisis, of ineluctable compromises and trade-offs, the moral responsibilities of liberal democracies seem arduous.

Of course, many Iraqis fear what comes next, and the withdrawal came against the backdrop of political crisis in Baghdad.

As with previous series, Sveistrup wove in a political dimension, setting the story against a backdrop of financial crisis.

But against a backdrop of economic crisis, the purpose of the more recent consolidation was simply to cut costs — and it has gone too far.

In the midst of all that they were knocked out of the Champions League, as the season lurched towards disaster against a backdrop of institutional crisis.