Sentence examples for within the backdrop from inspiring English sources

Mbembe's assessment comes within the backdrop of an increasingly unequal South Africa.

"His ascendancy highlights the current dangers South Africa faces: a gradual closing of life chances for many; an increasing polarisation of the racial structure; a structure of indecision at the heart of politics itself; and a re-balkanisation of culture and society". Mbembe's assessment comes within the backdrop of an increasingly unequal South Africa.

"A world in chaos surrealized within the backdrop of the most perfect serene harmony that seems to undermine all rational understanding and purpose".

In contrast, here in the U.S., the onus is on the individual, who lives within the backdrop of a surge of media messages, political spending, and state regulations encouraging--or disturbingly, discouraging--the acts of registering and voting.

Madonna brought a guest vocalist from her Confessions on a Dance Floor album onstage for "Isaac", when a female dancer in an oversized Middle-Eastern burka danced within a cage with the backdrops displaying sand dunes.

For all the inclusion of Union symbols within the ceremony, the backdrop to June 1953 was growing Scottish nationalism and discontent with the title of Queen Elizabeth II (Scotland had never had a Queen Elizabeth I).

And in the second one, we tried to find, also, a cover that would fit what we were trying to do, which was that you had some of the traditional elements within society against the backdrop of, also, colonialism.

The first Earth Day in 1970 was brokered in an attempt to heal political divisions within the United States amid the backdrop of the Civil Rights Era and the Vietnam War.

Within the divisive backdrop of society right now, I worry more about my kids, particularly my son.

His decision to act — a culmination of months of debate within the Fed — occurred against the backdrop of political gridlock at home, and despite a conservative resurgence more concerned about Greek-style debt than Japanese-style stagnation.

Parks have long been a source of inspiration for artists and writers: all human life goes on within them, and they form the backdrop to experiences spanning the sublime, the exciting, the amusing and the tragic.