It is this backdrop that makes Congress's drift and venality look so dangerous.
It is this backdrop that gives the book its character: history rampages around the players, trampling on some, liberating others.
It was against this backdrop that, starting in the late 1960s, she organized ground-breaking sale exhibitions of Indian and Southeast Asian sculpture and painting.
It is against this backdrop that independent filmmakers in China are trying to make themselves heard.
It is against this backdrop that continuing questions about Hillary Clinton's trading have been raised.
"It's against this backdrop that he got this call," Maloney said.
It is against this backdrop that the region is becoming increasingly important to European universities.
It was against this backdrop that a parallel black cinema industry arose.
It is against this backdrop that Bergen's annual music festival, Bergenfest, takes place.
It was against this backdrop that the Rooneys were trying to make a decision.
It is against this backdrop that Ohio enacted, among other initiatives, its Pilot Project Scholarship Program.
