Sentence examples for televised backdrop from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama's remarks, against a nationally televised backdrop of bleating seagulls and glaring sunshine, came as BP had to temporarily suspend its efforts to cap the well yet again on Friday.

This is the season when the Met is transformed for a few fleeting hours into MTV Pop House, the televised backdrop for the music industry aristocracy's annual video awards.

The intense ideological clashes of the 1960s, which centered on Communism and civil rights and Vietnam, were marked by a series of assassinations that changed the course of American history, carried out against a televised backdrop of urban riots and self-immolating war protesters.

In April 1980, "Desert One," a military raid the president ordered to rescue the captives, failed dismally in the Iranian desert, and the president was forced to live out his term against a televised backdrop of unending captivity and humiliation that seemed to highlight American impotence.

The Iranians want any announcement of an agreement to be televised against the backdrop of a U.N. facility, believing that gives the deal greater legitimacy and helps erase the image of Iran as a nuclear pariah state.

And, with little or no military experience, he will want to appear a strong commander-in-chief.It is against this backdrop that televised military punditry is booming in China.

Mr. Frankfurt said he thought it was ironic that the screens became the symbol of Lehman's demise this week when they served as the 24-hour-a-day backdrop for televised reports from around the world.

The renovation will also preserve the fireplace that Mr. Obama used as the backdrop for a televised address during the presidential campaign.

Significantly, Ulitskaya, a Moscow geneticist who lost her scientific credentials in the 1970's as a punishment for translating a banned novel, sets Alik's story in the summer of 1991, against a backdrop of the televised putsch that ejected President Mikhail Gorbachev.

The church can be seen from the Park End and Bullens Road and has featured prominently over the years as a backdrop during live televised matches.

Many were probably completely unaware that Grant and his wife are buried nearby until the singer Beyoncé Knowles and a troupe of barely clad dancers used the tomb as a backdrop for a nationally televised Fourth of July special.