Sentence examples for necessary backdrop from inspiring English sources

But the atrocities aren't there merely for shock value: they form a necessary backdrop to the more recent events that occupy the bulk of the book.

This consensus led many in the next generation of anti-colonialists to turn in a more parliamentary and constitutionalist direction, and was the necessary backdrop to Mahatma Gandhi's tactics of nonviolent resistance.

Far from being the necessary backdrop to the current UK recovery, Osborne's austerity programme was a catastrophic economic mistake, although so far our increasingly smug chancellor seems to have got away with it politically.

In On Certainty, Wittgenstein contrasted the concepts of certainty and knowledge, arguing that certainty is not a "surer" form of knowledge but the necessary backdrop against which the "language games" of knowing, doubting, and inquiring take place.

Critics of Voltaire and his program for philosophie remained powerful, however, and they would continue to survive as the necessary backdrop to the positive image of the Enlightenment philosophe as a modernizer, progressive reformer, and courageous scourge against traditional authority that Voltaire bequeathed to later generations.

All of this is the necessary backdrop for discussions about the current budget negotiations.

However, Gikas expects sector fundamentals to improve between calendar 2007 and 2009, providing the necessary industry backdrop for management to execute a business turnaround.

For some people old documents, however historical, are little more than humdrum records, created to be filed for reference and cited when necessary, the documentary backdrop of grander happenings, with signatures that do no more than guarantee their authenticity.

Much of the action is staged against a stark black backdrop, necessary to disguise the mechanics behind the elaborate puppetry (by the ingenious Basil Twist), mainly involving the flying robots of the title, representing the invidious cancer cells wreaking havoc in Yoshimi's bloodstream.

Assessing the complexity of such a problem may become necessary on the backdrop of an existing societal controversy.

This fear-mongering is necessary to provide a populist backdrop for the much smaller minority of people who oppose such legislation on rational grounds.