Nato's success in Libya was conducted against a barrage of predictions that it would lead to years of stalemate.
Traditionally Hollywood's grandest event, it the ceremony was conducted against a backdrop of antiwar demonstrations just blocks away that threatened to further disrupt the proceedings.
[good point for Poland to make about Germany and Russia] The Holocaust that took place on our soil was conducted against our will by someone else.
The election was conducted against the backdrop of a "Red Scare" in which many Americans feared that foreign communist agents were attempting to infiltrate the government.
Under the Ustaše regime, whose slogan was "Za dom Spremni" ("Ready for the Fatherland"), a brutal program of oppression was conducted against the Orthodox Serbs and the Jews.
The proliferation issue has taken on new importance after an Israeli strike in Syria in September, which American and Israeli officials said was conducted against a nuclear facility near the Euphrates River that was supplied with material from North Korea.
This week's diplomacy was conducted against the backdrop of new EU guidelines, formally published on Friday, forbidding funding and grants to Israeli bodies with links to Jewish settlements across the 1967 line.
Even though it was more than a month before the explosion, the rig's safety audit was conducted against the backdrop of what seems to have been a losing battle to control the well.
The Pentagon added the hard-choices note of American forces in danger: the first statement said that the bombing was conducted "against individuals threatening the force," and that this strike "may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility".
We found that regions differed in how the research was conducted against the inferences made.
Simulation of molding process on various coating systems was conducted against phosphate glass.
