Workplaces and highways started to close down around the country and the whir of helicopters became a steady backdrop.
One of its two keyboardists, Carl Wheeler and Vance Taylor, is often holding a steady tone as backdrop, while the bassist Larry Kimpel and the drummer Chris Johnson make the rhythm pop.
All are expected to hold monetary policy steady against a backdrop of caution heightened by the global impact from a possible Brexit.
The government's mantra has been about "fine-tuning" economic policies: tweaking taxes, cutting red tape and gently easing the required ratio of reserves, or R.R.R., that banks must maintain to keep money supply growth steady against a backdrop of fluctuating international capital flows.
The day seems almost perfectly still, but it is a stillness against the backdrop of steady, intensifying change.
Mr. Wuorinen's piece was surprisingly steady and even; its backdrop, with the sun setting magnificently behind the downtown skyline, was sometimes queasily not.
But against a backdrop of steady economic growth, falling unemployment and the expectation of a further pick-up in average wages, the size of the recommended increase will feel a little cautious to many minimum wage earners".
Two and a half hours later, Mr. Bush spoke outdoors in a steady rain against the backdrop of cloud-shrouded peaks at the Coconino County Fairgrounds, where he raised no money but was introduced by a pumped-up Mr. Renzi, an insurance executive running against George Cordova, a Democratic businessman, for a new House seat.
The dreary atmosphere and a steady rain seemed a fitting backdrop to the start of the final regular-season homestand at Yankee Stadium on Friday.
Abstinence programs are rising against the backdrop of a steady decline in teenage pregnancy, for which advocates of both comprehensive sex education and abstinence claim credit.
