Sentence examples for background of a collapse from inspiring English sources

A modest residential-property tax has been introduced against the background of a collapse in house prices.

The author ably tracks Lenin's career as conspirator and exile in the decades before 1917, but his story hits its stride in the years of revolutionary upheaval; it captures all the drama of Lenin's leadership against a background of imperial collapse, the ravages of war and the building of a dictatorship.

Jazz composer Alan Barnes scores a story that is set against the background of the collapse of Northern Rock and villainous London property developers who are trying to pull the heart out of a northern town.

Strangely, these two historic events came together in Moscow in 1989 at the unprecedented, first face-to-face meeting of the key living veterans of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which unfolded in real time against the background of the collapse of the Soviet empire.

Spanning 20 years, his play charts the disintegration of the east end Kahn family, dominated by the feisty Sarah, against a background of collapsing faith in communism.

At that point, the story, while set against the background of the economic collapse, became more the personal story of this woman and her husband and son.

Coexpression of either RGS2 or RGS4 with EYFP does not affect background levels of collapse, nor does it interfere with sema3A induced collapse (Fig. 2D).

Based on the engineering background of the sand-layer collapse disaster in Qingdao Metro Line 2, detailed analysis of the process and mechanism of sand-layer collapse in tunnels was done.

Here he describes the background of the real estate collapse, exposing the venality involved in mortgage foreclosures.

Their organization has a background of raffish inconsistency and abject collapse.

This unprecedented collapse of food supply will lead to a collapse of the economic system of many countries.