Sentence examples for backdrop of poverty from inspiring English sources
The coppers of H Division, played by Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg, are called upon to investigate every kind of crime imaginable against a convincing backdrop of poverty, industrialisation and social change.
We see an impoverished neighbourhood in a poor city where the mothers are desperate for money and the kids are left to fend for themselves against a backdrop of poverty.
Their pictures and those of other undesirable families, like the so-called Bunglers, whose story appeared in a 1930 issue of Eugenics: A Journal of Race Betterment, used the backdrop of poverty and broken-down architecture to reinforce arguments about natural inferiority, just as "fitter" families posed in better settings.
Bonnie and Clyde and their partners in crime are comically bad bank robbers, and the backdrop of poverty makes their holdups seem pathetically tacky, yet they rob banks and kill people; Clyde and his good-natured brother are so shallow they never think much about anything, yet they suffer and die.
Instead, Choe juxtaposes this sad, trotting cowboy figure against the grimy backdrop of poverty, the projects, and the once-thriving Coney Island.
This suggests that the combination of man-made or natural disasters against a backdrop of poverty, poor healthcare, and other structural violence factors is associated with widespread prevalence of depression symptomatology.
It was predictable that ancient Gaelic hero-cults would flourish against a backdrop of social poverty and colonial torpor.
The violence comes against a backdrop of grinding poverty: 80% of Haitians live on less than $2 a day, and in 2002 the UN estimated that half the population was undernourished.
These complex and interconnected health problems are set against a backdrop of entrenched poverty and relative social disadvantage (Baldry et al. 2003; Social Exclusion Unit 2002; Travis and Petersilia 2001).
Against a backdrop of chronic poverty, households affected by HIV suffer multiple crises.
The legacy of war Five months after the signing of the peace accords, the slow, arduous work of reconstruction is taking place against a backdrop of massive poverty.
