Sentence examples for was set against from inspiring English sources

The record, 78,817, was set against Jacksonville in 1999.

My experience was set against the backdrop of an extensive manufacturing and distribution operation.

The announcement was set against the backdrop of qualified disappointment at the team's missing the playoffs.

But the celebratory nature of the affair was set against a somewhat uncertain backdrop.

The movie was set against the backdrop of the Canadian Rockies.

The single's stark lyrical vision was set against an equally unique musical backdrop.

That fantastic blue was set against a pure and hardly less fantastic whiteness.

The text was set against a panoramic image of mountains and streams.

On Walsh's advice to the referee, a scrum was set against the Lions.

The experiment was set against the background of low rates of laymen providing CPR during sudden cardiac arrests.

It was set against the background of the massacre of Haitian emigrants by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1937.