Sentence examples for backdrop of tragedy from inspiring English sources

We have made important commitments here today against a backdrop of tragedy and crisis.

Against a backdrop of tragedy, the story centers on hope that the sisters can escape to freedom.

"We have made important commitments here today against the backdrop of tragedy and crisis," Mr. Clinton said.

The 100th-anniversary Paris Air Show takes place this year against a backdrop of tragedy and economic stress.

The McKinley story is just out-and-out sad, especially considering the backdrop of tragedy surrounding the Broncos, writes Don Banks on SI.com.

But behind the erratic behaviour and touchline antics is a very human story, with Di Canio having achieved all he has despite having to work against a backdrop of tragedy.

It is against this backdrop of tragedies that some reproductive rights activists have argued for making the same abortion drugs used routinely in clinics available to women in their homes.

But the blurring backdrop of personal tragedy against which he runs cannot easily be forgotten.

And Dawn Kurtagich's soon-to-be-published The Dead House explores the mysterious, often misunderstood territory of Dissociative Identity Disorder against a backdrop of unsolved tragedy.

Once the two begin an affair justified, even over-justified, by much sordid behaviour by both their spouses Corrine must choose between family stability for her children and true love.There is nothing implicitly discomfiting about small personal stories told against the backdrop of grand tragedy.

What would it mean to take a hard look at the structural racism that is the backdrop of this tragedy and actually address it?