Sentence examples for encouraging backdrop from inspiring English sources

But the cricket does at least provide an encouraging backdrop to eight sets of planned talks between senior officials on bilateral disputes.

The good news from Intel and JPMorgan provided an encouraging backdrop to the first few days of earnings season, just days after Alcoa reported first-quarter results that were comfortably ahead of year-ago levels but missed expectations on the revenue side.

There he snapped his subjects against a white backdrop, encouraging them to flaunt their outrageous brand of chic.

However, as Hull had lost all seven previous top-flight encounters against their opponents, and former Red Devils captain Bruce had mustered the sum total of four draws from 21 games as a manager against his old club, the backdrop was hardly encouraging.

"The robots will be going around the space, while behind them the kids are doing some kind of activity," said Ms. Allen, who has encouraged costumes and backdrops as well as music.

Against that backdrop, the latest unemployment figures are encouraging news for Gordon Brown after an utterly dismal summer.

Burning Man, a heavily branded, drug-friendly, clothing-optional convention of 50,000 men and women, organized around tribal theme camps and encouraging "radical self-expression," presented itself as the ideal backdrop.

The upbeat reports follow encouraging economic data in recent months, and provide a positive backdrop to Chancellor George Osborne's Budget announcement on 19 March.

Set against this backdrop, Arianna is waxing longingly about FDR and encouraging Obama to get tough.

"But," Mr. Leonard writes, "behind that backdrop of speculative froth" the real numbers "aren't encouraging".

"Against the tragic backdrop of American history, the flowering of multiracial intimacy is a profoundly moving and encouraging development," he writes.