Sentences with phrase «against a background of»

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.

This is whipsaw activity taking place against the background of a slowly rising trend.

«As phenomenal as the generosity the Zuckerbergs are showing is, it comes against the background of the remarkably generous tax treatment he has gotten for the wealth he has earned,» says Brian Galle, a professor of law at Georgetown University and a specialist in tax issues.

The political context «comes against the background of a quite difficult economic situation,» Mitov told CNBC.

Against a background of ongoing trade tensions between China and the US, China's own Ministry of Commerce responded on April 17 by saying that it hopes the US can deal with this situations in a legal way, and that it will be prepared to take action in the interests of ZTE.

I should also add, of course, that this economic growth was achieved against a background of very low inflation.

Against the background of MiFID II, fund managers are also focusing on a number of other urgent issues, with stewardship at the head of the list, as Cynthia Alers explains.

The Bank of Canada has cut its policy rate by a cumulative 75 basis points so far this year (in three moves) to 2 per cent, against a background of weak GDP growth and subdued inflation.

Against the background of a resurgent Irish property market, the first property group from Ireland has partnered with the UK's top property website, Rightmove.

-LSB-...] Ireland property group partners with Rightmove Overseas Against the background of a resurgent Irish property market, the first property group from Ireland has partnered with the UK's top property website, Rightmove.

It is possible, against a background of increasing inflation and a strengthening labour market, that the survey is signalling some pick - up in underlying wage pressures, but at this stage the extent of any such pick - up is difficult to assess.

The two most immediate effects: First is the hit to sterling, as uncertainty reduces nonresidents» appetite for UK assets against the background of the UK's record current account deficit; second is the hit to growth, as firms hold back on investment, and households increase precautionary savings.

In early March, it reached the upper end of this range, much the same level as the peak a year earlier, against a background of, inter alia, strong domestic profit results, speculation of foreign takeovers, and rising commodity prices (especially base metals).

The Board's decision to increase the cash rate in March was taken against the background of strong demand pressures combined with a significant pick - up in upstream prices during the second half of 2004.

However, bond yields have been mostly driven by US developments, where bond yields appear unusually low against a background of strong growth, rising inflation and increasing short - term interest rates.

Against a background of deepening recession and technical insolvency, Greece's banking sector is being propped up by a $ 16 billion bailout from the European Financial Stability Facility.

Maybe it's because I'm a product of the early» 90's and formed my preferences for shoe shapes against a background of Doc Martens and creepers, but I actually prefer a little heft to my shoes.

Against this background of wide payments imbalances, why have the margins for risk in corporate and emerging market debt been so exceptionally low?

Also, the original post was a cartoon envisioning the words / concepts represented by the Jesus figure, against the background of the Syrian refugees ---- what are your thoughts on the irony, applicability, and / or actions advocated by the Followers of Jesus (past tense) with the Followers of Jesus (present tense).

These questions are, as you know, at the heart of many problems in our society today, and it is against the background of such questions that I want to reflect upon the significance of human cloning.

This semantic problem has developed against a background of a radically changed situation in that area of the world which has historically been the site of «foreign missions.»

The survey came against the background of a number of controversies touching the American Muslim community, ranging from King's hearings to the debate over plans to build an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan.

A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

We needed to be involved in the ongoing struggle for justice, urgent, of course, but set against a background of long - term historical developments from which one could derive encouragement.

Sadly, the term evangelistic is used more often in other ways, but in that usage it meant bringing truly good news of God's salvific work in the world against the background of realistic assessment of what our current activities were doing to the Earth.

Through dialogue undertaken in a common quest for wisdom, participants will consider these more fundamental questions against the background of transcendent commitments and a common recognition of the priority of first things.

It is against this background of public moral struggle that the people of Israel prepare to vote on July 23 for their next government, in an election that pits the conservative Likud Party of Menachem Begin and current Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir against the Labor Party headed by two - time loser Shimon Peres.

Now it was natural that the first Christian evangelists should proclaim Jesus against the background of Jewish thought and in the context of what they conceived to be God's historical manner of dealing with his people Israel.

Against the background of forms as possibilities Whitehead achieves a new concept of facticity as that of the act of a «decision» among possibilities.

Earlier we had occasion to note the relationship between Jewish faith as portrayed for us in the Old Testament and the Christian event which is the subject matter of the New Testament; and how it was indeed inevitable and right that the primitive Christian community should see their Lord and apprehend his significance for men, against the background of the whole history of the people into whom humanly speaking he was born.

Biblical norms and historical models must be related to contemporary possibilities with an imaginative grasp of what this history is apt to imply for those who see it against the background of their own fears and choices.

It is taken for granted in the recorded teaching of Jesus (and in the New Testament generally) that this life is lived against a background of what can literally be translated as «the Life of the Ages.»

Suffice it to say that there are few quotidian moments in Gerard's account of a life and an apostolate lived for nearly twenty years against the background of the real risk of arrest, imprisonment, torture and horrible, but longed for, martyrdom.

Unlike others before and after him who assimilate church history to secular history, Williams defined his own vocation as that of one standing committedly within the historic community of faith, charged with telling and interpreting the story of that community against the background of ultimate meanings.

The structure of the joke is a psychological reflection of the concern: The juxtaposition of the trivial and the mundane... against the background of cosmic, major concerns.

We have seen that when the Bible is read against the background of the ancient mythological cultures, it is found to be pointing in a different direction.

Against the background of such an anthropology, values and norms suddenly become relevant again to the counseling situation.

In a radio talk addressed to Germany after World War II, he called Christianity the most important unifying factor in Europe and said that only against the background of Christian faith does Western thought have any significance.

Nonetheless, he was justified in raising the question of meaningfulness, and his real contribution to the discussion lay in his probing the question of meaning, particularly against the background of religious experience and biblical presuppositions.

The so - called risk takers — the entrepreneurs, the wealthy middle - aged professionals who try to climb Mount Everest, the artists who pose against the background of transgression — are nothing more than gamblers looking for a big payoff.

Seen against the background of McGovern's book, however, Sigmund's invitation to liberation theologians to make an either - or choice between «revolution or democracy» seems too simple, and in the long run it obscures the kind of fundamental freedoms for which Latin America still awaits.

Does the change in me represent anything more than this: that the practical relevance, the struggle and the confessional character of my theological teaching have become visible to many, and now for the first time to most, against the background of a time which has taken shape at the hands of National Socialism?.

But in another way, seen against the background of the Divine Corporation, they are quite similar.

The beasts may be mentioned simply to accentuate the loneliness of the desert as a place of testing and struggle, but more probably, as D. E. Nineham suggests, «they are thought of as subject and friendly to» Jesus, and, hence, «the passage should be understood against the background of the common Jewish idea that the beasts are subject to the righteous man.»

Finally, the totality of Israel's rebelliousness is, in the prophetic understanding, the shocking betrayal of Israel's pride and arrogance, which appear all the more reprehensible against the background of such relationships as father / son, owner / vineyard, and husband / wife:

Seen against the background of the life - long process of parenting (one is always a parent after the process is begun), intercourse plays a tiny role.

All cognition and recognition take place against the background of earlier experience organized conceptually.

My redefinition is radical against the background of recent professional theology, but not in relation to what theology has meant in the overall history of the church, and especially of Protestantism.

This self - study included a careful analysis of the church's group structure against the background of the obvious needs of the congregation.

These positions of leadership required extensive travel in America, Europe and the Far East, and enabled him to discuss the problems of International Christianity against a background of almost unrivaled political as well as religious knowledge.