Sentence examples for backdrop of terror from inspiring English sources

Some say this is all fair game against the backdrop of terror.

Stalin's Russia featured extremes unavailable in modern Britain, in this instance a backdrop of terror to highlight the compromises of creativity.

I'll die!" Despite the backdrop of terror, war, death and loss, Teffi's world becomes somewhere we do not want to leave.

The tournament, which opens with France's first game in Group A at the Stade de France on 10 June and runs until the final at the same venue on 10 July, will be staged across 10 venues to the backdrop of heightened security following last month's terror attacks in Paris, which saw 130 innocent civilians killed.

The backdrop of geopolitical terror helps tie the story to true-life issues.

The home secretary, Amber Rudd, said: "I want to thank Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe for the leadership he has shown as commissioner, and his work to keep the communities of London safe and the United Kingdom secure against the backdrop of a heightened terror threat.

Muslims enter the political stage already set against a backdrop of violence and terror: Al-Qaeda and bin Laden, suppression of women, irrational beliefs and various other imaginations of barbarity and backwardness.

Patchett's portrayal of love and forgiveness against the backdrop of death and terror delivered the lenses I needed to help make decisions that were necessary in her case.

Without the backdrop of the war on terror, a Vietnam War record might not have seemed to be a plus to Democratic primary voters, who are to the left of Democrats overall and the electorate in general.

Against a backdrop of high-profile hacks and terror attacks in western cities, it's conceivable that surveillance powers will be strengthened.

All this occurs against the backdrop of a state-prosecuted "war on terror" – a crackdown ostensibly aimed at neutralising a genuine jihadist insurgency playing out in some parts of the country, but one that has included widespread police torture, mass death sentences and the jailing of large numbers of innocent civilians.