EdX President Anant Agarwal is seen silhouetted against a backdrop of the two universities' insignias at the start of a video describing edX.
In the panoramic Two Solitudes (1945) and The Watch That Ends the Night (1959), framed against the backdrop of the two world wars, Hugh MacLennan attempted to capture moral, social, and religious conflicts that rent individuals, families, and the French and English communities in Quebec.
Those atrocities are the horrific backdrop of the six linked story lines in this dry but thoughtful drama.
Gluckel's life, with its joys and reverses, passed against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War, rampant anti-Semitism and the consignment of women to secondary roles.
Tinder is set against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War, beginning with a young man, Otto Hundebiss, apparently escaping death on the battlefield, only to stray into a dangerous love affair.
Writing against the backdrop of the Thirty Years War, the 17th-century Dutch diplomat and philosopher Hugo Grotius saw value in dialogue but recommended against talking to "wicked states". Twentieth-century British writer and diplomat Harold Nicolson qualified that position; he said states should engage other states, but only so long as their diplomats reflected the will of elected officials.
Against the backdrop of the three new World Trade Center towers, the commercial complex at Battery Park City and the growing allure of downtown as a residential neighborhood, it might be difficult now to discern how revolutionary 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza was in its day.
It was of particular interest to consider the wily ways of Jia's social critique in "Useless," his commissioned portrait of the Chinese fashion designer Ma Ke, and the importance of his faux-whimsical digital effects in "Still Life," a drama set against the backdrop of the Three Gorges Dam project.
However, the technical backdrops of the two stocks couldnt be more different.
At Bar Cichetti, the yellow walls, done half in bead board, formed the perfect backdrop for the two bottles of Veuve Clicquot our friends bought to toast our engagement.
Against the backdrop of these two normative approaches, this paper proceeds as follows: Section 1 lays out some of the distinctive challenges of public health ethics.
