Sentences with phrase «backdrop for»

That's when yoga seems to be the backdrop for everything I do.

Saturn's rings cast shadows on the planet's cloud tops, providing a perfect backdrop for the brilliant sphere of the moon Enceladus in this image taken by NASA's Cassini probe.

The black tie opening event will use the new building as a distinctive backdrop for the theme, «Step into the Genome.»

The hot gas of the background Orion nebula emits strongly at each of these wavelengths, providing a strong backdrop for the disks to be silhouetted against.

I knew that this was happening, and thought that the flooded streets would make a great backdrop for my video on global sea level rise.

The backdrop for the visit is the Myanmar Rice Sector Development Strategy, which IRRI is helping develop.

This finale will be unmissable as the Lovell telescope transforms into a spectacular backdrop for the final time in the 2013 Live From Jodrell Bank series.

Sedona may be infamous for its fortunetellers but deservedly famous for its amazing rock formations, which provided the backdrop for many Western movies, with stars from John Wayne to Clark Gable filming there.

However inanimate this bestiary, it seems a companionable backdrop for a writer whose acute explications of evolutionary theory are often animated by wonderful evocations of animal behavior.

It was the backdrop for transformations in a very real sense.

Heartland Institute: «Cold kills far more people than heat» This administration has long used public health risks as a backdrop for its climate policies.

That landscape on the brink of transformation turned out to be a fitting backdrop for a meeting that would change the course of our careers.

«While retreating rainforests and spreading grasslands did provide a backdrop for ecosystem change 5 - 10 million years ago.

A 119,000 - square - foot minimalist marvel once owned by Silicon Graphics, its geometric glass planes and soaring walls are a suitably reverent backdrop for the collection, which ranges from wooden abaci to liquid - nitrogen - cooled supercomputers.

By the early 1990s, urban archaeology had become so much a part of popular consciousness that an urban dig recently formed the backdrop for a television commercial.

In addition to being the stunning backdrop for countless movies, for 125 years this sandstone formation has yielded a continuous line of important Triassic dinosaurs, like Coelophysis and Dromomeron.

Titan's hazy atmosphere appears as a smooth backdrop for its mini moon sister.

Back then scientists regarded the regolith as simply part of the landscape, little more than the backdrop for the planting of the American flag.

But using Jupiter as a backdrop for the plumes, Sparks and his colleagues spotted several eruptions (SN Online: 9/26/16)-- once in March 2014, again in February 2016 and possibly also in March 2017, Sparks said.

These «sky islands» — isolated mountains surrounded by radically different lowland environments — provided a spectacular backdrop for my afternoon wade through yet another transient pond.

For most physicists, space - time itself is a lot more abstract — a purely mathematical backdrop for the unfolding drama of the cosmos.

The finding could help narrow down when our planet's massive tectonic plates first started jostling with each other, which may have provided a crucial backdrop for life's early evolution.

This solid black option not only makes the perfect backdrop for your GloFish, it's a great substrate, too.

Lake Natron, with its swirls of concentrated sodium compounds, provides a mesmerizing backdrop for a pair of lesser flamingos.

The giant treads of the crawler - transport vehicle provide the backdrop for a TV interview.

That was the backdrop for last week's deliberations at the Arizona Corporation Commission, which regulates utilities in the state.

Those experiences form the backdrop for this statement on human cloning.

Young Hillary Clinton supporters are on stage to provide a backdrop for former president Bill Clinton when he arrives in Depew

Extell's One Manhattan Square looms over the senior building which was the backdrop for Friday's rally.

If the mayoral election provides a political backdrop for their partnership, Mr. Stringer said his alignment with Mr. Jeffries was not merely «a 2017 relationship.»

The same steps today played host to a slew of children who attend charter schools dressed in «I Fight for Equality» T - shirts, the backdrop for a press conference in which Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. — another potential de Blasio challenger — called for the mayor to find space for several Success Academy charter schools that have been approved to open by the state.

And Buffalo provided the backdrop for the first time an opponent «invaded her space» back in 2000 when she was a candidate for the U.S. Senate.

The backdrop for much of their relationship is likely to be the region's failing transportation infrastructure.

Dinolfo used the ABVI and Goodwill of the Finger Lakes as the backdrop for the announcement.

Last year, Kingston was the backdrop for two films, a TV show and a commercial.

On Tues., Aug. 23, Schumer announced that the U.S.S. New York will offer a backdrop for the -LSB-...]

In what follows, I explore, not in any particular order, how these four themes provided the backdrop for Aregbesola's uncommon achievements.

The backdrop for that show was the Crown Point Bridge (or Lake Champlain Bridge, if you prefer), which was closed and demolished back in 2009 due to safety concerns and has yet to reopen.

Touting his property tax cap in Irondequoit, Cuomo said a two - story Colonial used as a backdrop for his event should not be «an ATM machine for government.»

Bongirne explained that the Buffalo Niagara Film Commission and Senator Charles Schumer campaigned to convince producers that the Buffalo courthouse was an ideal and ready backdrop for the court drama.

This also comes as a backdrop for an upcoming county executive race that will likely highlight treatment of the Muslim community as one of the campaign's talking points.

The Medgar Evers rally also featured an appearance by the CSPAN bus, which served as the backdrop for de Blasio's meet & greet.

Silver's influence was also apparent in another part of the iconic civil courthouse on Foley Square, where the grand entrance has been used as a backdrop for movies including «The Godfather» and «12 Angry Men» and countless episodes of «Law & Order.»

The problem is, Clegg says, he didn't understand the importance of the political symbols, from the Rose Garden press conference with Cameron (which came across as more bromance than business) to his acceptance of a nothingy office with no front entrance (Cameron refused to allow him to use Downing Street as a backdrop for media interviews).

The sweary joshing of chief - of - staff Nicholas, played by a swaggering Sope Dirisu, with conscientious, quietly ambitious, and gay, Sam (a beautifully anguished Simon Lennon), soon becomes sinister and is the backdrop for an identity crisis — both political and sexual — of the conflicted protagonist.

He bent down to shake the hand of the son of Kathleen Dispirito, whose home was being used as the backdrop for a news conference with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

This was the backdrop for nationalist parties in the «Super Thursday» elections held on May 5, 2016.

While Nixon has strong political connections and name recognition in the city that was the backdrop for her Emmy Award - winning role as lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the HBO comedy «Sex and the City,» her star power among upstate voters is less certain.

«We respectfully request that you take down your video and make clear your political positions without using 9/11/01 as a backdrop for your message.

Before the Islamic State's expulsion, the terror group destroyed parts of the UNESCO World Heritage site and used its Roman ruins as a backdrop for beheadings and executions.