"despite this backdrop" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that despite a certain situation or background, something else still occurs or happens. Here is an example: Despite the economic downturn, the company managed to increase its profits by 10% this quarter. This success is remarkable, especially given the challenging backdrop of the pandemic.
Despite this backdrop, the sector has outperformed the EuroSTOXX in each of the past 3 years (71% since January 2012).
Mendes saw, though, that despite this backdrop, the story was centrally about the relationship between Frank and April Wheeler, two people pinned to their time but not unique to it, a couple looking to preserve, or at least identify, some kind of truth in a landscape of heart-breaking conformity.
"Despite this backdrop, Q2 estimates were implying a slowing rate of earnings deterioration, raising the prospect of disappointments," writes analyst Mike Urban.
The museum's curator, Pieter Van der Merwe, thinks it is significant that Cockburn chose this backdrop, despite a career including more obvious highlights, such as taking Napoleon into his last exile on Saint Helena and becoming governor there for some months.
Yet despite this gloomy backdrop, many Haitians, like Daphne, have started to find some equilibrium — to heal, to rebuild or simply to readjust their sights.
Yet despite this unpromising backdrop, the manufacturing PMI has posted one of its strongest monthly increases in a run of data going back the best part of a quarter of a century.
Despite this grim backdrop, Laszlo Birinyi, president of Birinyi Associates, a stock market research firm in Westport, Conn., believes that we are in the early stages of a classic bull market that has plenty of room to run.
Despite this productive backdrop, we argue that variation at the task level seemed to dramatically influence opportunities for productive disciplinary engagement.
Despite, or perhaps because of, this backdrop, an unusual event recently took place in Amman, Jordan.
It is against this backdrop that, despite Witty's comments, there is renewed talk of big mergers and acquisitions.
Ms. Scheinman, improvising over this backdrop, was tersely effective: her solo assumed a coltish vigor despite some mournful undertones.
