Sentence examples for backdrop of greater from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, the two big questions investors want answered will be: are emerging markets cheap?; and if the decline continues, will the developed markets be badly affected?The sell-off is already reasonably significant given the backdrop of greater optimism about global growth (normally a bullish sign for EM).

But Ofsted warned that sustaining this level of improvement would be challenging against the "backdrop of greater expectations following last summer's London Games".

The recent publication of a memoir by Malvina Shanklin Harlan (1839-1916), the wife of the Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, introduced the public to a keen chronicler of a rich family life lived against the backdrop of great public events.

They played against a backdrop of great change and anxiety in the newspaper business, as increasing corporate ownership has led to an era of cost-cutting and an obsession with stock prices.

That has changed over the past six months, and as fans prepare for the 140th Preakness on Saturday, they'll do so against a backdrop of great optimism — and some uncertainty — for the state's 272-year-old racing industry.

They did so against a backdrop of great uncertainty.

Although the stability of these markets has yet to be established, when seen against the backdrop of the greater international market, the art world offers more than record gains on investment--deep-rooted proof that the postcolonial rankings of "First," "Second," and "Third" Worlds are being vigorously challenged and discarded.

When he was nine, the family moved to the Humboldt Park neighbourhood of Chicago, the city that would form the backdrop of his greatest novels.

The first act is dominated by Orlando's swooning courtship of the mysterious Russian princess (Ms. Boras smolders effectively), which takes place against the backdrop of a great frost that turns the Thames into a giant ice-skating rink.

Against the breathtaking backdrop of the Great Rift Valley, with hawks circling above, Dave Bedford, the joint race director of the Virgin London Marathon, yesterday unveiled the six Kenyans who will feature in the elite men's field on 23 April.

The first, Hard Times and Hard Travellin', set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and the New Deal, covers Guthrie's dustbowl songs and his championing of poor white migrants.