Sentence examples for unlikely backdrop from inspiring English sources

Italy is an unlikely backdrop for a renewable revolution.

THE rugged hills of Sardinia make an unlikely backdrop for one of Europe's leading Internet companies.

A soldiers' barracks seemed an unlikely backdrop for a men's fashion show.

I'm in Klaten, an unexceptional town in central Java, the unlikely backdrop for my first Vipassana ("insight") meditation retreat.

Back on Earth, on the outskirts of Stevenage, a 1950s block is the unlikely backdrop for crucial research into this high-risk mission.

Bow Wow chimed in – "Believe that!" The 20-year-old appeared on camera in front of an unlikely backdrop – a bowling alley.

Page B7 UNLIKELY HOCKEY BACKDROP For the first time in the 64-year history of the Frozen Four, college hockey's championship is being contested in the South.

The Friars Club in Midtown Manhattan, known for its provocative celebrity roasts, was the unlikely, if fitting, backdrop for the latest development in the tragicomedy that has become Representative Anthony D. Weiner's political life.

Against this backdrop, there is unlikely to be a huge amount of investment in the good stuff – or divestment from the bad.

It ticks all the right boxes to seduce those who vote for awards: pretty, period detail, a thrilling wartime backdrop and an unlikely hero jailed under legislation that the modern West finds inhumane.

But an overhaul of the corporate code is unlikely this year, given that political backdrop and the complexity of an undertaking that would generate a lobbying frenzy as businesses vie to defend old tax breaks or win new ones.