Sentence examples for external backdrop from inspiring English sources

In the absence of an activist position involving Syria's Arab neighbors, the situation's external backdrop involves three leaders contemplating the ongoing massacres and calculating how (don't look shocked) their actions will play out in presidential elections next year.

"Spain is selling its debt at punitive rates against a rapidly deteriorating domestic and external backdrop," said Nicholas Spiro, managing director of Spiro Sovereign Strategy, a London consulting firm that assesses sovereign debt risk.

Moody's said in its note that "while Sino-Forest reported cash of $899 million as of June 2011, Moody's expects the company's balance sheet liquidity to continue deteriorating, given the significant slowdown of its business operations and its limited access to external funding against the backdrop of current developments and ongoing investigations".

This paradox of increasing aspiration and stagnating external financing sets the backdrop for the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington DC this month.

A sense of external underappreciation has formed a backdrop to Celtic's European run.

All this is taking place against a backdrop of mounting external pressure on the oil group that makes the confrontation at this year's gathering in Dallas, Texas, especially significant.

Contemporary rural social movements bring diverse interest groups and stakeholders together at the local scale in the pursuit of common visions and goals, often against the backdrop of an external threat.

It should be recognised that you secured both the Scotland Act and the Edinburgh Agreement in the context of a majority SNP government at Holyrood, and against a backdrop of an external political narrative that often suggested the legislation would fail and a referendum agreement could not be secured.

The social crises of the early twentieth century, together with developing doubts about human nature and progress, form the backdrop for an evaluation of external and internal criticisms of liberal thought.

Furthermore, rather than using an abstract subject/topic or presenting the cited information as authorless, the integration of external voice within a text somewhat opens up the dialogic backdrop in which the argument takes place.

RCTs are conducted against the backdrop of difficult methodological choices related to the balance between internal validity (reliability of the results) and external validity (generalisability) [ 1].