Sentence examples for the historical backdrop from inspiring English sources

And the historical backdrop is important.

Despite the gloomy mood, the historical backdrop is stunning progress in human decency over recent centuries.

The historical backdrop is England's looming first opium war with China (1839-42).

Persie's ongoing scheming looks especially vengeful (but deliciously enjoyable for us) next to the historical backdrop.

The historical backdrop of Arab-Persian relations does not help, the Amir added.

But the historical backdrop is fraught: Brixton was the scene of two infamous nights of rioting in 1981.

Catherine Jones of Berkeley, Calif., suggested that The Times delve deeply into the historical backdrops of Occupy protest sites in locations — like the Bay Area and Boston — that previously have served as "historic incubators of movements for civil liberties, workers rights, racial justice, etc".

Modern distributions are set by this historical backdrop and the contrasting oceanographic patterns, pack ice, and climate differences among the oceans.

Seen against this historical backdrop of brutal invasion and stubborn rebirth, the current struggles of the Eurozone seem almost inevitable.

With this historical backdrop, we can consider and reassess the arguments employed to circumnavigate structural equation model testing.

It is against this historical backdrop that Tharp's recourse to channeling the anguish of destruction and chaos to produce and promote its conversion into art participates in the mythopoetic enterprise -- that is the making of new myths relevant to the present day from the most vibrant myths and icons of the past.