Sentence examples for foreign backdrop from inspiring English sources

The prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, an early champion of the idea of a tech hub, acknowledged last week that they were facing "a fairly difficult foreign backdrop," but stuck to his guns.

Nevertheless, it remains one of the mysteries of popular culture how the kind of Dondi-esque, determinedly adorable visage that has made "greeting card art" a term of sophisticated opprobrium in this country can become so intriguing when viewed against a foreign backdrop.

Its founder, Kunio Suzuki, says he has never seen such anti-foreign sentiment.The backdrop to a sharp rise in hate-filled rallies is Japan's strained relations with South Korea (over the wartime issue of Korean women forced to work as sex slaves for the Japanese army) and North Korea (which abducted Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s).

Against this backdrop, U.S. foreign policy continues to be reactive rather than proactive, highlighting how ambiguous our foreign policy toward the region is.

Candidates and presidents alike have long used the Citadel as a backdrop for foreign policy speeches.

You either get the kind of head-shaking, world-gone-crazy stories that accompany the high prices commanded by top Bordeaux producers in good vintages; or sensational tales of desperate southern winemakers blowing up tankers of foreign wines to a backdrop of plummeting sales.

Yet amid a backdrop of foreign influence in the top division, with many believing it is having an adverse effect on England teams, he stated: "The two targets I have for the England team are - one, to at least reach the semi-finals of Euro 2020 and two, win the World Cup in 2022".

There, it was a post-9/11 revenge fantasy set against a backdrop of unpopular foreign wars.

Mr. Verrilli urged the court to consider the Arizona law against the backdrop of the foreign policy considerations that arise from taking actions against citizens of other nations.

Iran's latest military pronouncements come against a backdrop of continued foreign skepticism about its claims of peaceful nuclear energy development.

They were all grinning, and one of them might have her eyes crossed or be sticking her tongue out; sometimes they were wearing funny hats, or set against the backdrop of a foreign city.