Sentence examples for backdrop representative from inspiring English sources

With the words of Dr. Bob Jones, the university's president, calling the papacy "the religion of Antichrist and a satanic system" as a backdrop, Representative Joseph Crowley, Democrat of New York, said the visits were a silent endorsement of the college's principles, an endorsement Americans should not tolerate.

Against this backdrop, representatives from 195 countries will descend on Paris at the end of the month for a two-week summit that is being billed as the most important environmental meeting in decades.

Against this backdrop, representatives from resource-rich developing countries, the OECD, the IMF, the EITI and the World Bank Group gathered earlier this month during the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, to debate measures to reduce tax avoidance in the extractive industries.

It was against this bleak backdrop that representatives from 178 countries around the world gathered in Bangkok this week to hammer out a solution.

WASHINGTON — Aides to Sarah Palin angrily rejected suggestions that she had some responsibility for the angry political climate that served as a backdrop to the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords.

The spread of these restoration laws is especially striking against the backdrop of the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and others in Tucson early this year by a suspect who has been declared mentally incompetent to stand trial — a case that spotlighted anew the link between mental illness and violence.

"Violent attacks and subsequent arrests of most of the presidential candidates, as well as hundreds of activists, journalists and civil society representatives is the backdrop against which these elections will now be judged," said Tony Lloyd, the leader of one of the O.S.C.E.

Against this backdrop, and drawing on interviews with airport representatives and the deliberations of industry forums, this paper explores the attitudes of airport planning and property managers to the revised regulatory regime announced in the Government's White Paper in December 2009.

It was against this backdrop that leading government, community and corporate representatives agreed to work together to change how development occurs in the province -- under the umbrella of a "green growth compact" that builds on plans begun in 2010.

The Friars Club in Midtown Manhattan, known for its provocative celebrity roasts, was the unlikely, if fitting, backdrop for the latest development in the tragicomedy that has become Representative Anthony D. Weiner's political life.

Against that backdrop, he said that "for a major player not to send an elected representative is a pretty puzzling decision".