The geopolitical backdrop remains a driving factor.

against the backdrop of a totally paralysed civil government.

Against a backdrop of martyrs' funerals, a protest mood is growing.

Against this backdrop, the US government shutdown looks a little different.

Our daily business usually ignores this existential backdrop.

Informal housing in the backdrop at Kyrgyzstan's biggest dump.

However, the economy continued to struggle against the backdrop of a weak resource economy.

For Obama, Africa so far chiefly remains a backdrop against which he defines his American identity.

But instead we see a landscape of widespread poverty set against a backdrop of endemic corruption and official mismanagement.

Against this backdrop, Israel and the Palestinian territories are relatively stable places.

Posters of Khodorkovsky against the backdrop of rainbow flags would look absolutely ridiculous.

The intensive bickering online over dog eating takes place against a backdrop of increasing pet ownership in the country.

The airport has a beautiful setting and very interesting backdrop like the butterfly garden, kinetic rain sculpture and a roof top swimming pool.

Against this backdrop, the ejection of the IFE directors stands out all the more glaringly.

It would also provide a backdrop against which wages in Germany could rise without necessarily having to fall in the periphery.

It is against this backdrop that the latest contest between India and China must be assessed.

Against this tough economic backdrop, authorities have cracked down time and again on street beer sales.

Considering that the backdrop was religion class in a prestigious, all girls Catholic school, I suppose I should not have been surprised.

His family is part of the everyday backdrop of my life, of sporadic encounters here and there.

It is hard to imagine that a free and fair election can take place against the backdrop of such intense and systemic violence.

NEW DELHI German Chancellor Angela Merkel s second visit to China in a year comes against the backdrop of dire forecasts of a difficult September for the eurozone.

Against the backdrop of rapid globalization, the individual risks and costs of moving internationally will continue to fall.

Against this backdrop, the time has come to reconsider the basic sources of happiness in our economic life.

Against this backdrop, it is easier to defend the status quo than to advocate accommodation involving territorial concessions.

President Bush's military action in Afghanistan was largely unilateral, but was carried out against a backdrop of support from NATO allies and UN resolutions.

Hiking rates into such a fragile economic backdrop could be risky and set up the question of whether this time is different, Deutsche said.

Six Brothers Hardware and Paints, formerly located at 7309 5th Avenue in Brooklyn, was the backdrop for Tony's workplace.

These repayments are all expected to happen against the backdrop of a weaker Kenyan shilling and a stronger US dollar, which majority of Kenya s external debts are denominated in.

But the barriers to such measures say, to make the tax system more progressive are well known, especially against the backdrop of a presidential election campaign.

The backdrop was Prague, impossibly beautiful, impossibly romantic, the city of a hundred spires, tawny ochre houses and churches, shifting late afternoon light, moonlight on the Vltava.

The film industry is also quite alive in the city, highlighted by the fact that Warsaw featured as a backdrop in Roman Polanski s Oscar winning The Pianist.

Photo by Ezra Acayan, Copyright Demotix (7 14 2013)A fisherman at work on the polluted waters of Manila Bay against the backdrop of the Manila skyline.

In this respect, the news that the US and Russia have agreed on a follow up treaty to START that will substantially cut both countries nuclear arsenals provides a good backdrop.

The Rio Olympics recently welcomed the world s finest athletes and provided a stage for Herculean feats of physical achievement, but the event s host city stood as a backdrop of stark inequality.

Against this backdrop, the wealthiest Americans are unlikely to enjoy substantial further profits from their financial investments in the near term.

Now, against the backdrop of difficult relations with the West, the issue of renouncing imported goods is becoming ever more relevant.

While these seem to be a grab bag of achievements, they point to a single message the world community is finding new ways to cooperate, even against a backdrop of terrorism and global recession.

It is set in Bamyan, a province in central Afghanistan, against the backdrop of the sixth century monumental statues of standing buddhas that the Taliban destroyed in 2001.

That would be the best backdrop to establishing tougher surveillance and monitoring, beginning to engage with Iran, and searching for a way to involve India and Pakistan in a global nuclear agreement.

With these circumstances as backdrop, a blog post by Japanese blogger and university professor id next49, addressed (anonymously) to a student, struck a chord with many readers and drew a huge reaction in the local blogosphere last month.

Because if we are preparing these men so they can live in freedom, we have to prepare them against a backdrop that's much more similar than what can be found in a prison.

Japan s unilateral revision of Article 9, viewed against the backdrop of its new nationalism, would isolate Japan from virtually the whole of Asia.

All this took place against the backdrop of the National Bank of Kazakhstan's recent announcement about the stability of the country's economic system.

She saw the mountain ranges in the backdrop of Seoul and realized that mountains she would draw as a child in the US were actually from memories of South Korea.

These are latrines. These monster women, immoral, capable of killing their own children, have as their backdrop a dirt floor, mud walls, worms slithering in the bottom of the cesspit.