Sentence examples for election backdrop from inspiring English sources

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.

Republicans find their House divided over the payroll tax issue, with the election year backdrop fanning the flames of their disagreements.

Why did you want to use the election as the backdrop to a story?

Carlisle Lib Dem leader, councillor Trevor Allison, said: "At the end of the day we fought this election against a backdrop of polls which were pretty dismal for us.

The madness only ended when the party's visibly agitated president, Rebecca Blaikie, kiboshed the whole affair and showed the room a demoralizing video of defeated MPs lamenting the election against a backdrop of melodramatic synthesizers.

Mahama fought the election against the backdrop of an economy that has slowed since he took power in 2013, in part because of lower global prices for the West African country's exports of gold, oil and cocoa.

The author, identified on the book jacket simply as Anonymous, was later unmasked as Joe Klein, a former Newsweek columnist.Fifteen years on, Barack Obama's re-election is the backdrop for a new novel, "O".

But this election comes against the backdrop of an economic crisis and a presidential election.

And the backdrop of election meant it all worked together really well.

Against this grim backdrop, the election unfolded in a climate of Nordic tranquillity.

Hong Kong's weekend "election" comes against a backdrop of growing cultural antagonism with mainlanders to the north who increasingly hold political, and financial, sway over the territory.