Sentence examples for general backdrop of 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.

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".

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.

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.

How global health and development practitioners can have fruitful discussion on how priorities are defined and policies are set against a backdrop of general low capacity, lacking data and plethora of public health ailments is another important final question.

But this election is taking place against the backdrop of a general election victory last year, not a general election defeat, and it is hard to detect an appetite for radical change in the party.

The initial staging of Posh was held against the backdrop of the general election, and Harrop said the advent of Theresa May, who also went to Oxford, meant an all-female production was fitting for these times.

The discovery of the reports, written in English in the period before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, came against a backdrop of more general, current intelligence pointing to a plot now under way.