138 Sentences With "against a background of"

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Against a background of global warming, that might seem inevitable.
The inflation data comes against a background of improved economic performance.
Against a background of Arabic lettering, messages are conveyed in English and Arabic.
Cruz's Texas and Oklahoma wins come against a background of Trump victories elsewhere.
The big fight takes place against a background of layoffs and budget cuts.
All against a background of intensifying economic turmoil and increasingly ugly divides on Britain's streets.
But they did so against a background of continued consumer shortages in the Soviet sphere.
His photographs search for an ordinary city and its citizens against a background of redevelopment.
It is set against a background of an obscured photograph of a couple having sex.
Obama's nearly eight years in the White House have played out against a background of wars.
A sign saying "The Musical" against a background of white powder was projected on red curtains.
She has carte blanche to appear frequently in the press against a background of warships and parades.
The BOJ board's comments were published against a background of solid economic growth and robust industrial production.
However, the poll showed doubts these currencies can keep upward momentum against a background of slowing growth.
But, to date, it has been difficult to detect clear trends against a background of natural variability.
"Against a background of stable economic data, these could present prolonged value opportunities," the Neuberger strategists added.
Or perhaps that nonchalance is because this racial ribbing didn't occur against a background of any clear majority.
The photo shows Sondland smirking against a background of dozens of reporters angling for a picture of the ambassador.
If we choose not to view individuals against a background of their peers, then surely the alternative is pure chaos.
Jenner posed in a lacy two-piece number that showed off her toned figure against a background of colorful flowers.
"The swift decline in euro area unemployment is particularly encouraging against a background of increasing labour supply," the ECB added.
The change is taking place against a background of rumbling geopolitical tension, of a sort which has a religious dimension.
The unusual decision comes against a background of long-term central bank negative interest rates, and an uncertain global economy.
Japan, however, did not give up its quest of strong export sales to China against a background of flammable disputes.
The painful experiences throughout our lifetime occur against a background of genes that make us more or less sensitive to pain.
I watch as periwinkle daylight slowly fades into neon brushstrokes of green against a background of vibrant fuschias and deep violets.
Philosophy and literature against a background of conflict, with David Tanis's new recipe for brats with butter-fried apples and onions (above)?
Wearing black, they perform the choreography — sometimes shakily, but with spectacular intention — on a shiny elevated stage against a background of trees.
It remained well above this week's 22017-22/2-year low of 91.621 plumbed against a background of tensions on the Korean peninsula.
"Private consumption has increased resilience against a background of steady improvement in the employment and income situation," the BOJ said in a statement.
I passed the time waiting for the return bus by capturing, against a background of barbed-wire fencing, a Paras and a Pinsir.
It remained well above this week's 2-1/2-year low of 91.621 plumbed against a background of tensions on the Korean peninsula.
She is shown in a richly floral patterned robe open to reveal her bare chest against a background of flowers and Asian figures.
Mr. Carney is viewed by some as a steadying hand against a background of political infighting in Britain and fraught negotiations with Brussels.
It can take several hours of phone calls to get a few scraps of information on poor connections, sometimes against a background of explosions.
In the clip, Cerio happily shows off an Easter-themed picture she colored of a baby chick against a background of pastel-colored eggs.
It comes against a background of increasingly draconian inspections of industrial plants of all shapes and sizes led by the head of the MEP.
But you have to view it against a background of 40 to 50 years before when filmmakers were coming to Jamaica and shooting movies.
"A Lab of One's Own" is an engrossing, exciting tale of uncelebrated scientists who innovated and experimented against a background of grand historical events.
For example, thin, wispy cirrus clouds, the most common type of high cloud, are difficult to spot against a background of snow, according to NASA.
MethaneSAT will be hunting for leaks over oil and gas fields that might amount to just 10 parts per billion, against a background of 1,403.
It also comes against a background of rising hostilities between China and the United States over issues like trade, territorial claims and allegations of espionage.
Mosul, Iraq (CNN)Against a background of columns of thick black smoke rising from southern Mosul, two men push a cart down a dusty, rocky track.
"This was against a background of widespread manipulation of Libor within UBS for which senior managers bear ultimate responsibility and which ... was widely condoned," he said.
Life in Donbass proceeds against a background of conflict—distant gunfire is almost constant, growing heavier at night, when the warring sides send out scouting parties.
Another painting, "Mum in Bed, 2017," solemnly conveys the outlines of his mother's face in a steely shade of blue against a background of institutional green.
He suggested that one actor, Emily Cass McDonnell, pull a tissue out of her mouth against a background of red light, as if it were ectoplasm.
Your job is to arrange circumstances to end the lives of poor mortals, and this plays out against a background of funky beats and thoughtful puzzles.
Any escalation of tariffs comes against a background of faltering manufacturing growth, particularly in China, which is the single most important economy for all things metallic.
"Private consumption has increased resilience against a background of steady improvement in the employment and income situation," the BOJ said in a statement announcing the policy decision.
Politicians of all stripes duly promised to protect workers from their fat-cat paymasters, particularly against a background of stagnant wages and insecure jobs in the "gig economy".
"The long span hangs between earth and heaven, an intricate tracery of gray wire against a background of flowing river, rocky shores and embracing sky," The Times reported.
Anti-immigrant violence has flared sporadically in South Africa against a background of near-record unemployment, with foreigners being accused of criminal activity and taking jobs from locals.
Anti-immigrant violence has flared sporadically in South Africa against a background of high unemployment, with foreigners accused of taking jobs from South Africans and getting involved in crime.
The Internet is already partly censored in Indonesia, but the latest steps mark an escalation against a background of growing conservatism in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation.
This is only fitting for a pair that has long explored the connections between gender roles, class, feminism and homosexuality against a background of American political and literary mythmaking.
Anti-immigrant violence has flared sporadically in South Africa against a background of near-record unemployment, with foreigners being accused of taking jobs from citizens and involvement in crime.
It wasn't subtle - Clinton was depicted next to a star and against a background of $100 bills -- but what should we have expected from its alt-right message-board source?
One particularly psychedelic channel features a 20183-D cat in a Russian hat advertising free in-game money, against a background of gaudy Russian text and a scrolling chat box.
Against a background of 9.6 percent unemployment, the pro-business, Europe-minded Macron has made a loosening of labor market regulations his biggest economic priority for his first year in office.
For the past three years, under Joseph Muscat's Maltese Labour Party (PL) government, GDP has soared at an annual average rate of almost 7%, against a background of unremitting corruption allegations.
It is visible at places like the Usual Cafe, a modern coffee shop near John Street where baristas in denim pull shots against a background of lush plants and white tiles.
Gold prices have fallen about 12 percent since a peak in April after investors preferred the dollar as the U.S.-China trade war unfolded against a background of higher U.S. interest rates.
The portraits were taken in Lynne's ancestral homeland of Jamaica, and feature five female-identified queer Jamaicans of the artist's acquaintance, posed variously in seated positions against a background of lush jungle.
The attacks occurred against a background of tensions between the United States and Iran over Iranian nuclear capabilities, its missile program and its support for proxies in Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
BERLIN (Reuters) - A strong European economy is good for the United States, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday, against a background of tense relations with Washington on trade and other issues.
Thursday's meeting, the first since European elections this year, comes against a background of weekly student protests across Europe that are pressing leaders for urgent measures to stave off catastrophic climate change.
Moon Over the Lake (2015), another pulp painting ensconced behind Weather Prediction, juxtaposes a Buckminster Fuller–esque orb against a background of black and the deep blue foreground of the titular lake.
The precious metal has fallen more than 11 percent from its April peak after investors preferred the dollar as the U.S.-China trade war unfolded against a background of higher U.S. interest rates.
However, the yellow metal has declined about 10 percent from its April peak after investors preferred the dollar as the U.S.-China trade war unfolded against a background of higher U.S. interest rates.
Funds focused on infrastructure investments are eager to deploy capital after raising billions of dollars to deploy in businesses with recurrent cash flows against a background of low interest rates and narrowing yields.
The last portrait of the series is that of Akhmatova from 1914; that same year Cubist painter Natan Altman would paint her too, against a background of cubic flower petals and abstract shapes.
Turkey's central bank has pushed up the average cost of funding by 23-25 basis points in the last week against a background of rising inflation and U.S. Federal Reserve rate hike expectations.
The weak sales come against a background of rising unemployment, which climbed to 9 percent in the third quarter, up from 8.3 percent in the same period in 2017, according to official data.
A few months back, during the relaxation phase of my morning exercise class, the instructor asked us — against a background of dreamy music — to visualize floating down the Seine on a romantic evening.
The weak sales come against a background of rising unemployment, which climbed to 9 percent in the third quarter, up from 8.3 percent in the same period in 2017, according to official data.
The precious metal remains down more than 10 percent from its April peak after investors preferred the dollar as the U.S.-China trade war unfolded against a background of higher U.S. interest rates.
All this against a background of strained relations between the coalition partners: the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and the more left-wing Free and Equal movement.
Gold prices have slipped around 2076.70 percent from their April peak as investors turned to the dollar as a safe-haven while the trade war unfolded against a background of higher U.S. interest rates.
The yellow metal has fallen about 10 percent since hitting a peak in April as investors bought the dollar with the U.S.-China trade war unfolding against a background of higher U.S. interest rates.
The designer's Instagram posts, which receive thousands of likes and comments, typically feature engagement rings and Wegman's signature deep-red nail polish against a background of travel hot spots and a 'gram-worthy showroom.
"Francis Bacon in Your Blood," arriving some 20 years after Peppiatt's seminal biography, "Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma," is the result, a gouache découpé of a friend, against a background of art history.
Against a background of sharply rising sympathy for populist platforms in several key Western economies during 2016, Gentiloni played down the threat from Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement, led by comedian Beppe Grillo.
These generationally distinct stressors arise against a background of overall financial precarity endemic to American workers: 78 percent of full-time workers live paycheck to paycheck, while 71 percent face some measure of debt.
The dollar has strengthened since late 2015 as the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates against a background of steady economic growth, slowly rising inflation and the lowest U.S. unemployment rate since the 1960s.
She's showing a selection of large-scale paintings and video from a series called Continuum, in which the figures look like they're posed for vacation photos, but against a background of decontextualized, serene whiteness.
The attack on the United States by Nikolai Patrushev came against a background of anti-Western rhetoric by Moscow following imposition of sanctions by Washington and the European Union over Moscow's role in Ukraine's crisis.
KEY RATING DRIVERS Strong Brand & Customer Base In our view M&S will be able to continue to adapt and change against a background of intense competition, which supports the ratings at the current level.
Its law mandates that brand names—such as Marlboro, Winfield or Dunhill—appear in grey type against a background of Pantone 448C, a putrid green deemed the world's ugliest colour by a market-research firm.
I was trying to see the ball come off the bat against a background of mostly white fans mostly wearing white tee shirts and sunglasses and watches and other shiny things flashing in the sunlight.
Against a background of more volatile markets and worries that some of the biggest hedge fund managers are nursing losses this year, many in the audience focused on the smaller, better-performing investors like Oleg Nodelman.
PARIS, Nov 11 (Reuters) - A French journalist was arrested in Turkey on Friday, his employer said, in a move that comes against a background of journalist detentions in the country following an attempted coup in July.
Against a background of scenes of police clashing with protesters during the 2014 unrest she said her country was no longer part of the Soviet Union and wanted to shake off politicians working only for themselves.
A gorgeous red and black Long Life deity floats against a background of a thousand-odd tiny doppelgängers, most of them in a grid, but a few of which float across his knee and under his arm.
This is not eyewitness reporting, but by the same token it is not hearsay; it represents a distillation of the whistleblower's work interviewing eyewitnesses and reviewing documentary evidence, against a background of familiarity with internal Ukrainian politics.
Roach's comments come against a background of Trump having campaigned on remedying a wide trade gap in favor of Beijing that he said was spurred by moves to artificially weaken the yuan and restrict entry into home markets.
Financial markets, shaken by the specter of further Fed rate hikes against a background of weakening global growth but not keen on the idea of a White House trying to directly intervene in rate-setting decisions, reacted badly.
"INDO-PACIFIC" Trump's tour comes against a background of tensions on the Korean peninsula following exchanges of war-like threats and insults between North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and Trump over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile development program.
Attempts were made to approximate the form of the three-point correlation function, but trying to actually calculate the dynamics of interacting primordial particles against a background of exponentially expanding space was about as hard as it sounds.
The governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA), Ahmed al-Kholifey, was speaking at an investment conference in Riyadh against a background of a surge in domestic bond issuance by the government to help fund the budget deficit.
The bank is tightening liquidity, pushing the average cost of funding up by 20-25 basis points in the last week to a five-year peak against a background of double-digit inflation and Federal Reserve rate hike expectations.
The company has demanded that Verizon pay licensing fees for more than 1523 of the telecoms equipment maker's patents and is seeking over $1 billion, a person has told Reuters, against a background of mounting U.S.-China trade tensions.
"Against a background of significant unrest in the Middle East and the aftermath of the ongoing bushfire disaster at home, the market is hoisting up the white flag today," James McGlew, executive director of corporate stockbroking at Argonaut said.
"These results were achieved against a background of challenges and changes in the banking system - both internal and external, regulatory and technological, business and consumer-oriented - which require determination and adherence," Chairman Samer Haj Yehia said in a statement.
Against a background of high unemployment of 9.6 percent, the pro-business, Europe-minded centrist, elected just over two weeks ago, has made a loosening of labor market regulations his biggest economic priority in his first year in office.
A remarkable recovery of Japanese exports to China since the beginning of last year is a result of an apparent political rapprochement of the two countries — against a background of totally unresolved fundamental strategic differences and contested territorial claims.
As Latin America begins a series of presidential elections this year against a background of sluggish economic growth and anger over crime and corruption, the Chilean result is a reminder that its middle class is bigger and more influential than ever.
The pair's story unfolds as a double bildungsroman set against a background of political and cultural upheavals, from the Nuremberg trials to Britain's moral panic about "deviant" behaviors and the stirrings of sexual freedom, of which Freya is a committed proponent.
Erdogan, a frequent critic of high interest rates, has often called for lower rates to boost the economy, which shrank 2.6% in the first quarter, after a slide of 30% in the lira last year against a background of soaring inflation.
In Marshall's version, a black man and woman, naked as in Eden, with the exception of an Africa pendant worn by the man, run against a background of high lush grass, trees in the distance, birds and butterflies soaring around them.
Natalie Griffin de Blois, a pioneer in the male-dominated world of architecture, led the team at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill that designed the building, a sheer tower with stainless-steel mullions against a background of gray glass and black steel panels.
Gold, usually seen as a safe store of value during political and economic uncertainty, remains down nearly 10 percent from its April peak after investors preferred the dollar as the U.S.-China trade war unfolded against a background of higher U.S. interest rates.
The Falluja offensive takes place against a background of mounting political turmoil in Baghdad, where twice in the last three weeks protesters loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have marched on the so-called Green Zone, the heart of the government.
Gold, usually seen as a safe store of value during political and economic uncertainty, remains about 1.53 percent down from its April peak, with investors preferring the dollar as the U.S.-China trade war unfolded against a background of higher U.S. interest rates.
In the Russian empire, such craziness persisted until the very eve of the revolution: in 1913, a Jew called Mendel Beilis was put on trial in Kiev for "ritual murder" against a background of public hysteria whipped up by ultra-nationalist groups.
Gold, usually seen as a safe store of value during political and economic uncertainty, remains down about 10 percent from its April peak after investors preferred the dollar as the U.S.-China trade war unfolded against a background of higher U.S. interest rates.
A calendar for 2019 printed long in advance by the government's swachh Bharat campaign marks the month of October with a cartoon of a rocket soaring upwards against a background of graph paper, and crossing 100%, to signify the achievement of total ODF.
As we dined, a karaoke machine projected a slide show on a big screen with just two images, the name of the ruling Workers' Party and "1950-1953," the years of the Korean War, both set against a background of the party seal.
The framers understood the potential corrosive influence of commercial profit in the executive and wrote the Constitution "against a background of profound concern" regarding "possible foreign influence upon the president (and, to be sure, upon other federal officials)," as Judge Messitte noted.
Coming against a background of mistrust between Russia and the West — and in the absence of any definitive indication of why Mr. Skripal and his daughter were hospitalized — it is easy for the Kremlin's foes to coax conspiracies from such fertile loam.
"Helene at the Age of Fifteen," painted in 1900, when he was in his mid-30s, shows von Werefkin's maid — with whom he fathered a child and whom he later married — as a self-possessed young woman against a background of dim shadow.
Most significant, the struggle over the Ukrainian Church has played out against a background of Mr. Putin's efforts to recast a much-weakened Russia, where 20 percent of the population is Muslim, as a land of unified people with a single identity.
Repealing the law is bound to have substantial effects on people's lives, but measuring those effects against a background of changing social conditions, health-insurance markets and medical technology would be tricky even for a health economist, let alone for a moderately well-informed voter.
Gold, usually seen as a safe store of value during political and economic uncertainty, remains more than 10 percent down from its April peak after investors preferred the dollar as the U.S.-China trade war unfolded against a background of higher U.S. interest rates.
But Mariano Rajoy, a stubborn and stolid conservative, also governed for the past seven and a half years against a background of endless corruption scandals, though he has not been accused personally and they mainly involve past regional leaders of his People's Party (PP).
While earlier strikes took place against a background of a pilot shortage, Ryanair now says it has more than enough pilots and is preparing to downsize or cut some of its bases due to delays in the delivery of Boeing's grounded 737 MAX jet.
When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi comes to Israel next week (July 4), for a historic first visit of a government leader from the subcontinent, he does so against a background of booming business ties between the two countries, particularly in the field of defense.
The first drinking fountain in London went onstream in 1859 "against a background of a filthy River Thames full of untreated sewage, rubbish and effluent from factories, water borne cholera but, most importantly, inadequate free drinking water," said The Drinking Fountain Association, a nonprofit group.
The image felt like a metonym for the series, which, for five seasons, has waved a flag of provocation against a background of tender, socially conscious, occasionally gooey humanism, an opiate combination that has made it a secret addiction for many women of my acquaintance.
In 1971, the two men created a seminal exhibition at New York City's Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now the Museum of Arts and Design), a 500-square-foot blown-glass environment of white opaque tubes with argon and neon gas against a background of black vinyl.
"A few participants commented that recent news on inflation, against a background of continued prospects for a solid pace of economic growth, supported the view that inflation on a 12-month basis would likely move slightly above the Committee's 2 percent objective for a time," the minutes said.
"White Rock," a four-foot-high assemblage, is even more direct: Against a background of gauzy pink clothing and yarn, white gloves and fake pearls, a plush female doll is attached upside down, as if crucified like St. Peter, but on a welter of contradictory demands and impossible expectations.
"There will be more pollution (from the projected runway at Heathrow) but it will be against a background of reduced pollution from the wider area, and so the general pollution level will drop, we think below the critical level we now have for health impacts," Professor Rod Jones told the BBC.
In a major study a decade ago, he and his colleague Sharon Kujawa solved a mystery that had puzzled some audiologists for years: the fact that two people with identical results on a standard hearing test, called an audiogram, could have markedly different abilities to understand speech, especially against a background of noise.
The drama is unfolding against a background of looming crisis in the earthly relations between Moscow and Kiev, after Russian forces seized three Ukrainian boats between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea; Ukraine, in a move that will have consequences for church affairs, has just banned Russian men from entering the country except in exceptional humanitarian circumstances.
After scanning 30,000 digitized artworks, the program paired a recent Reuters photo of eunuchs applying makeup before Mumbai's Raksha Bandhan with "Two Ladies of the Lake Family," a 1660 painting by Sir Peter Lely, the chief painter of Charles II. Despite hailing from different centuries and hemispheres, both images feature two seated figures wearing elegant blue and greenish dresses against a background of deep red drapery.
I've had a pair to test for a couple of weeks and there's no chance of mistaking these for anything like hi-fi personal audio, but for the purposes that earbuds like these are typically used — let's call them sport-fi and commuter-fi — they deliver a nice bit of punch and dynamism with vocals that remain strong and prominent even against a background of substantially increased bass.
The torpedoes are decorated with jokes and swaggering signs, some with historical, sexual, or religious references: one has the black-and-white pattern of a cow with the stamp "USDA Prime," as if it contained a packet of meat; another, with "I want you" against a background of the US flag, brings to mind the famous WWI-era recruitment poster; another features a checkered flag scheme, tongues of flame, and a reference to a bible verse that promises damnation by fire to anyone perceived as other.

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