Sentence examples for gloomy backdrop from inspiring English sources

All of this busy marketing comes against a gloomy backdrop.

But that gloomy backdrop means we cannot rest or become complacent".

Rarely have politicians and business leaders met at Davos against such a gloomy backdrop.

Against this gloomy backdrop, what will 2012 have in store for Europe?

It was amid the gloomy backdrop that Edmund faced the American Stefan Kozlov in Thursday's quarterfinals of the boys' singles.

It was amid the gloomy backdrop that Britain's Andy Murray, who is used to steamier conditions when he trains in Miami, began his grass court campaign.

Mr Cameron will enter the fray against an increasingly gloomy economic backdrop.

Against so gloomy a backdrop, the writers' union, at least, understands the problem -- and is growing.

This gloomy cosmic backdrop has led Reynolds to be described as a dystopian writer.

This was in contrast to the recession of the early 1990s when pay increased against a gloomy economic backdrop.

The Bank of England's interest rate setters meet against a gloomy economic backdrop this week that could prompt at least one policymaker to push for a cut in borrowing costs to shore up stalling growth.