Sentence examples for daunting backdrop from inspiring English sources

Against that daunting backdrop, other factors — pre-existing monolithic contracts, a fallow farm system, freakish injuries — combined to stack the deck against Collins and his team.

Against this daunting backdrop, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and her administration created bold new policies with the goal of transforming Liberia into "an international model of post-conflict recovery".

Against this daunting general election backdrop, the nominating contest is as unsettled as any Democratic presidential competition in 20 years, with candidates who have struggled for months to win attention from a nation that seems to have things on its mind other than an election that is 15 months away.

Congress is utterly unable to accomplish anything and some political scientists say there are signs that democracy itself is eroding all against the backdrop of incredibly daunting global challenges like climate change and inequality.

And daunting?

It seems daunting.

"It can be daunting.

"It was pretty daunting.

It's daunting".

The logistics were daunting.

It looked fairly daunting.