Skiing Wyoming's oldest ski area, dating to 1939, is at Snow King, whose trails form an ever-present backdrop for central Jackson.
The winding course of the Vltava, with its succession of bridges and changing vistas, contrasts with the ever-present backdrop of the great castle of Hradčany (Prague Castle), which dominates the left-bank region of the city from behind massive walls set high on a hill.
Henry Green, who somehow managed to combine novel-writing with superintendence of the family engineering business, spent most of the next ten years on what he called a serious comedy about "bohemocracy", a novel that would, as his biographer Jeremy Treglown puts it, "see the bright young things against a shadowy, obliquely presented backdrop of the darkening socio-political situation of the 1930s".
In both cases, bold leaves present a backdrop for slender foliage and the result is a pleasing contrast.
Our results generate new insights into potential mechanisms of tolerance to stresses relevant to biofuel production, including ethanol and heat, present a backdrop for further engineering, and provide glimpses into the natural variation of stress tolerance in wild yeast strains.
Such is the present-day backdrop against which "The Situation" is staged.
The Libor scandal and the lure of Isis to vulnerable young Muslims forms the present-day backdrop.
An overarching challenge for the participants was the uncertainty, which presented a backdrop to every experience.
Some sort of conceptual framework is present in the backdrop and floor cloth.
The rose-colored walls in the dining room -- now holding only three plates, a few Old World paintings, sconces and a large mirror -- present an anonymous backdrop.
While negative global economic conditions present a bleak backdrop, analysts and businessmen say that some of the immediate loan problems can be traced to a paralyzed central government, corruption-related losses, sector blowups and misguided policies that have left even decently performing companies at the mercy of the whims of various government agencies.
