Sentence examples for difficult backdrop from inspiring English sources

Miliband was making this speech against a difficult backdrop in more ways than one.

It was against that difficult backdrop that Takata embraced the cheaper new compound, ammonium nitrate, in its airbag inflaters, according to former employees.

Jewish-German relations will always be complex and the shaping of new German Jewish identities in the 21st century has a difficult backdrop.

Diamond, who warned of a continued "difficult" backdrop, has embarked on a cost-cutting programme aimed at generating a return on equity of 13% by 2013.

Mrs. Clinton leaves late on Saturday for her first visit to the region, against a difficult backdrop of complaints about humanitarian aid in Gaza and continued negotiations in Israel to form a government.

More recently, it seemed UBS was putting many of its problems behind it as it returned to profitability under Grübel, albeit against the difficult backdrop of the growing crisis in the eurozone.

But the deal fell apart, with the Co-op blaming regulators and the difficult economic backdrop.

The portfolio returned £1.1bn or 6.1% in the year to 30 September 2015, despite a difficult market backdrop.

"Today's figures show that, against a difficult economic backdrop, we're helping people to move off benefits and into work.

"Today, against a difficult global backdrop, I can report higher growth, lower unemployment, falling inflation, and a deficit that is falling too.

"Against a difficult economic backdrop, we are taking the targeted measures we can afford to get Scotland's economy moving," Moore said.