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Against this backdrop of hostility and denial, the stubborn Dr. Gao is waging a lonely campaign to publicize the issue, educating the healthy and treating the sick in villages where many people have only a primary school education.

The trial opened against a backdrop of public hostility to Brooks and Coulson, not only because of the high-profile hacking saga, but also because of their careers.

Sarkozy was swept from office in May by Socialist François Hollande, and against a backdrop of growing hostility toward budget cuts and tax hikes, Hollande changed the conversation from austerity to growth.

This most recent attack happened against a backdrop of increased hostility against Planned Parenthood, the result of a series of undercover videos that purport to show Planned Parenthood employees discussing the sale of fetal tissue.

Their community became increasingly inter-dependent, closed to outsiders, especially in the backdrop of increasing hostility from the host community [ 14].

Iraq produced the template: al-Qaida-linked fighters are driven out against a backdrop of burgeoning local hostility, only to return when the military – and social – climate is more favourable.

Against the unspoken backdrop of post-EU referendum hostility towards "foreigners", Shukla points to "the backwards attitude to immigration and refugees, the systemic racism that runs through this country to this day".

The parade was staged against the backdrop of a perceived rise in hostility towards LGBTI rights under the Law and Justice government.

But it comes against the backdrop of Greek antipathy towards Germany and mounting hostility towards the EU more generally, according to our correspondent Helena Smith in Athens.

Undertones of hostility and resentment".

There's a lot of hostility there.