Thus, neither London nor Napoleon are fictional entities, although the first is the quite essential backdrop to what goes on in the Holmes stories while the second plays an important role in the events described in War and Peace.
While the Duke of Edinburgh was in hospital where he underwent exploratory abdominal surgery and was said to be "progressing satisfactorily", his wife found herself doing something she was quite unused to – providing the backdrop.
Perhaps it wasn't very blockbustery at the time, but Fremantle's 1994 decision to trade a young Andrew McLeod to Adelaide after he'd been pre-listed by the league newcomers was quite a tale against the backdrop of the fledgling club's early-period blues and also turned out to be one of most noteworthy trades of the decade.
And this has happened against the backdrop of something that has been quite depressing for the image of Italian football.
So I looked back on this year, serving as your President, and reflected that it has been a time of exploration against the backdrop of this remarkable professional honor, quite likely the highest that I will ever receive.
Even the Six Nations, in all its traditional glory, cannot provide quite the same kaleidescopic range of backdrops.
This has been the backdrop, the sad reality of Northern Ireland, over quite a period of time.
Thus, our knowledge is quite limited with regard to whether and how family caregiving changed at the backdrop of Japan's nationwide natural experiment of increased public support for formal care (Arai & Kumamoto, 2004; Arai, Masui, Sugiura, & Washio, 2002).
"You get people quite casually saying things like, 'Struggle is the law of life.'" The backdrop to war was complex, the contributory factors many.
Attanasio's relationship with Braun is not quite that of a father and a son, but their personal bond was the backdrop for a heavy, hourlong conversation at Attanasio's Milwaukee apartment July 24.
