Sentence examples for urgent backdrop from inspiring English sources

Seen against this grim and urgent backdrop, Saturday's EU leaders' summit in Brussels was not headline-grabbing stuff.

In recent weeks, current and former officials say, the debate about interrogations and about Mr. Mohammed in particular has been conducted against the real and urgent backdrop of concern about a potential new terrorist attack.

Against the urgent backdrop of strike threats by three employee groups, United held separate contract talks with the unions even as a courtroom trial pitting management versus employees unfolded.

Alexander McQueen brought together a Noah's Ark of endangered species, creating an urgent, discomforting backdrop to the clothes.

But against a backdrop of urgent efforts to get children off the couch, improve schools' nutritional offerings and drive down soda consumption, something happened between 2005 and 2010 that's scarcely been seen for more than 30 years among the nation's young teens: Obesity rates held steady at 12.7% for this age group nationally.

Here in Lynn, an old seaside city nicknamed by some the City of Sin, the issue of needle exchange raises similarly conflicting views -- and the debate becomes even more urgent when set against the backdrop of the city's growing drug problem.

The Raymonda tutus and painted backdrop are in urgent need of updating; they look like they were original in 1961.

Albanian violinist Tedi Papavrami is immensely lyrical in the Second Violin Concerto, a rich mezzo voice above Krivine's lithe backdrop with the same urgent, blazing virtuosity that made his Ysaÿe sonatas album so exciting last year.

Over this backdrop, the vocal lines emerge, urgent and plaintive, as if trying to escape the oceanic pull of the orchestra.

If festival director Alberto Barbera required a fitting backdrop for his promised tougher, more urgent slate of pictures, the conditions could not have been more perfect.

So this qualifies as important and urgent for Ed Miliband, and it is against that backdrop that the Labour Black Network unveils its latest "manifesto for change" at party conference this week.