Sentence examples for backdrop of the first from inspiring English sources

The hearings were held against a backdrop of the first energy emergency here since last July.

Then, against the backdrop of the first assault on Paris – the murders at the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo – a terrorist plot was exposed and dismantled in the southern Belgian city of Verviers.

The Fed is trying to slow the U.S. economy to what is still a healthy growth rate against the backdrop of the first synchronized global expansion that we have seen in a dozen years.

An adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's story of a boy and his horse set against the backdrop of the first world war, it was directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris and played two seasons at the NT before its West End opening in 2009.

I've just finished a feature film, Ali & Nino, directed by Asif Kapadia [Amy], based on the 1930s Azerbaijan novel, about a Muslim boy who is in love with a Georgian Christian girl, set against the backdrop of the first world war.

Throughout the 1990s and in the aftermath of the Anfal campaign, despite huge losses the Peshmerga continued to battle Iraqi forces against the backdrop of the First Gulf War and Operation Desert Storm.

This play is a welcome interlude for Weeks in between filming Foyle's War – a detective series set against the backdrop of the Second World War – the last series of which finished last month.

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff Puffin £6.99, pp211 Meg Rosoff's impressive debut blurs the boundary between youth and adult fiction, the result being a compelling exploration of the teenage psyche, in which the backdrop of the Third World War offers a poignant setting for the chronicle of protagonist Daisy's coming of age.

Against this backdrop, on the second day of its 2010 Annual Session, the UNICEF Executive Board focused on relief efforts in humanitarian crises worldwide.

The club provided the backdrop for the first of his three majors victories: the P.G.A. Championship, 30 years ago.

But it made for a delightful backdrop to the first whacks of the bat and the first splats of the glove.