Sentence examples for sobering backdrop from inspiring English sources
It would be a sobering backdrop to the pennant races.
Against the sobering backdrop of a recession, a debate is beginning on the paths Europe has taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Pearce's injury and recovery are sure to be a sobering backdrop to what was expected to be a raucous Olympic halfpipe competition.
But the issue of his steroid use, and the verbal abuse he could take from fans, will be a sobering backdrop.
The game was played against the sobering backdrop of the shooting at a Newtown, Conn., school on Friday, and Coughlin began his traditional Saturday night team meeting with a moment of silence.
The tensions are not related to Mrs. Clinton's visit, analysts and officials said, but they offer a sobering backdrop to what has been depicted as a celebratory visit recalling President Bill Clinton's diplomatic triumphs in promoting the Northern Ireland peace process in the 1990s along with the leaders of Britain and Ireland.
But within a week of Nissan announcing new jobs, two big firms had said that they were leaving.Against this sober backdrop, talk of Scottish independence or "devolution max" is unsettling the North East.
A sobering reminder of the backdrop for this new round of talks came today with the Israeli Army's announcement that its undercover agents in the West Bank had arrested a 25-year-old Palestinian woman for her alleged role in the killing of an Israeli teenager this week.
These are sober achievements for sobering times.
