Sentence examples for general backdrop from inspiring English sources
"It's part of a general backdrop of economic news that does affect decisions by businesses and purchases of big-ticket items".
At the Getty, she is distracted by old "tales of sex among the curators and researchers," arguing, dubiously, that they provide a general "backdrop of personal drama and tensions" that helps explain the problems over stolen antiquities.
"When viewed against the lack of due process afforded to Mr Gaddafi, and the general backdrop of credible reports concerning allegations of torture and mistreatment of detainees, there is no basis for asserting that the ICC should defer the case to Libya," says the report.
The displays of ineptitude and of racism — the bungled response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico; the absurd evenhandedness of comments on Nazis and anti-Fascist protesters in Charlottesville; the "shithole" affair — blur against the general backdrop of abnormalities occurring at a pace faster than we can fully countenance.
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.
Insiders were selling heavily; the business is immature; founder Mark Zuckerberg is keeping voting control even though his economic stake was "only" 28%; the general stock market backdrop is weak; and the almighty sum of $16bn had to be raised.
One of the biggest criticisms of Man of Steel was the film's blitzkrieg denouement, in which Superman battled General Zod against a backdrop of Metropolis's near-destruction by the Kryptonian villain's brutal "world engine".
In one of his cartoons, against a war-torn backdrop, a general dripping in medals and battle ribbons stands by a stew pot and ladles out more medals and ribbons into the bowl of a man in rags.
Cash-strapped producers are more likely to spend their windfalls on imports from rich countries.One more reason not to lose sleep over the surge in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the backdrop of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand.
On such backdrop, a general concern existing among the practicing engineers is that a lower probability may translate a higher seismic design force and eventually higher construction cost.
UBS analyst Annabel Samimy cited a number of recent negative decisions by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration against a backdrop of "general market malaise" as the main reasons for the price revision.
