Sentences with phrase «even against the backdrop»

Yet even against this backdrop, the prevailing view is that the Trump - shaped Fed will remain cautious about rate increases.

Even against a backdrop of ministerial resignations and backbench defections to Ukip, Osborne thinks he can trump that with the message that you can't trust Labour with the economy.

Even against the backdrop of these changes, the 2010 and 2013 sightings in the Atlantic took biologists by surprise.

The other concern for business is that there is little supply of skilled labour, even against the backdrop of our massive unemployment.

There are many things you can do to keep your car insurance affordable even against this backdrop if you know what you are buying.

Not exact matches

Our strategy is even more compelling against the backdrop of global demand growth for light sweet crude oil,» Muncrief added.

It has become socially acceptable to denounce the Catholic Church even in savage, vulgar, and offensive terms, and all this is occurring against a backdrop of low standards in education and increasing violence and drunkenness in our towns and cities.

This evening we go into the second leg champions league quarter final clash against Bayern Munich on the backdrop of a 3 - 1 defeat to Liverpool.

It looks even better against the backdrop of terrible play provided by his peers.

This Kroenke's lack of passion not to invest heavily in Arsenal stance to see it win bigger titles occasionally or even regularly against the backdrops of Chelsea, Man U and Man City owners who have passionately invested heavily in their clubs which has led these clubs won bigger titles in recent past seasons.

Even familiar things that have never been scary before, like his darkened bedroom, may suddenly seem frightening against the backdrop of what he's been conjuring up all day.

This year the decisions of the Rent Guidelines Board will also play out against the backdrop of an even bigger fight in Albany over the renewal of state rent laws.

Few things are prettier against a wintry backdrop than glistening pastels — so you'll look amazing while dashing through the snow to your next shindig (even if you're not in a one - horse open sleigh).

Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

Building an atmosphere of dread against a cleverly - achieved backdrop of the «I'm Ok You're Ok»»70s, the film had our reviewer wondering «Is «Christine» voyeuristic, or even exploitative?

The trouble is that Conor's drama, set against the backdrop of a lonely Manhattan, looks even more generic than Eleanor's.

This dichromatic scheme created by production designer Damian LaFranche and cinematographer Tom Richmond is fascinating and more than a little unsettling: the white - clad scientists and orderlies blend in with background, with only their heads clearly visible, and the somewhat grotesque makeup of multicolored, poorly stitched together Lazarus (created by effects whiz Tom Savini, who also has a bit part) just stands out even more against the plain backdrop.

It's also one of the few times «Kings» delivers an impactful moment, even though the rest of the film is set against the backdrop of the trial of the four LAPD officers who beat Rodney King, and the riots that ignited after all four were acquitted.

The entire film takes place on one night, so there is a nice against - the - clock backdrop that keeps up the pace, even as the film flits from the North Pole to Toronto to the Pacific Ocean to Africa and, finally, to England.

Through sex, fiery concert sequences, even a cameo from Superstar - style Barbie dolls, Haynes charts the rise and fall of a love affair (first glimpsed as a romantic car ride where Slade and Wilde cruise through a laser light show, to the tune of Lou Reed's aching «Satellite of Love») against the backdrop of the times.

To do this against a backdrop of decreasing budgets and higher client expectations can be even more challenging.

Against the backdrop of a national survey showing half of teachers experiencing «great stress» on the job, the head of California's teacher credentialing commission says that stress levels among the state's teachers are likely to be even higher.

One could easily be forgiven for consigning Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series to the war novel genre, or perhaps even historical fiction, but the simple fact is that Kerr crafts some of the finest mystery novels in contemporary fiction, noir classics set against the multiple backdrops of WWII's far - reaching stages.

As if within her, beneath the span of her own days, there are other hunts going on continuously, giant elk in flight from the pursuit of hunters other than herself, and the birth of other mountains being plotted and planned — other mountains rising, then, and still more mountains vanishing into distant seas — and that even more improbable than her encountering that one giant elk, on her first hunt, was the path, the wandering line, that brought her to her father in the first place, that delivered her to him and had made him hers and she his — the improbability and yet the certainty that would place the two of them in each other's lives, tiny against the backdrop of the world and tinier still against the mountains of time.

Against this backdrop, combined with all the political and ecumenical power struggles of the time, Villon and Colin enter a world filled with even more intrigue and danger than they'd ever experienced in their heretofore criminal lives.

We find some of these companies, in fact, have been unable to increase cash flows — even against an economic backdrop where profitability has reached new highs for most of the market.

Have cocktails against the backdrop of the orange evening sky.

The resort is full - service, with everything a luxury traveler expects from a Ritz - Carlton resort, and more: • Lovely rooms and even lovelier suites; every accommodation has a lanai porch or balcony • A wonderful Ritz - Carlton Club Level lounge • Warm, personal service • Varied, high - end in - house dining • A perfectionistic spa • A cabana - laden pool complex with social, playful, and romantic appeals • 36 holes of superlative golf against a sparkling Pacific backdrop • From December to April, hanging with an annual tour group: Maui's migratory humpback whales

Each evening, a sound and light show in both English and French is performed against the backdrop of Parliament, and each Wednesday morning, there is yoga on the Parliament lawn.

The chart - topping duo Hollaphonic played an unforgettable evening of Cool Electro Pop, keeping guests dancing the night away against the stunning backdrop of the Siddharta pool deck and elevated terrace, offering breathtaking 360 - degree views.

Guests can enjoy evening socials and wine pairings at the Inn from Monday through Saturday, consisting of local gourmet offerings paired with fine wines and other Southern libations against the backdrop of a beautiful sunset.

Against a backdrop of a collage of newspaper headlines reporting the tumultuous events that defined the Cold War times, slithering snake skeletons, clips foreshadowing the evens of the game, and mirrored images of crawling smoke, the song that plays is one that would be remembered fondly by gamers.

The areas you struggle through in your mission will feel familiar to fans of the series, with crypts, poison swamps, dank castles and even ancient coliseums all becoming fitting backdrops to your own personal tale of struggling against adversity.

«good evening beautiful blue» includes Rondinone's clockwork for oracles II (2008), a multi-wall installation comprised of 52 - mirrored windows (one for each week in the year) set against a backdrop of whitewashed pages from a local newspaper and vocabulary of solitude (2014 - 2016), an installation of 45 life - size clown figures cast from 22 men and 23 women of various ages and ethnicities.

Placed against a neutral backdrop with their labels inscribed below, Wylie's hard - won forms play on the language of ancient art as well as modernism and the abstract compositions of painters like Franz Kline and Ad Reinhardt, who attempted to divorce image - making from even the most fundamental visual associations.

In Shrines to Speed this reality is evoked by Warhol's image of twisted piles of metal and steel, set against William Eggleston's diptych portraying 1970s pleasure seeking culture with a man and woman posed alluringly, proudly, next to cars which appear not as backdrops for the image, but co-presences, even extensions of the subject's bodies themselves.

Party in the Park is an event like no other featuring some of our area's hottest chefs and most talented artists coming together to create a special evening set against the stunning backdrop of the Olympic Sculpture Park.

All this is set against a backdrop which recollects the history of European landscape painting, with the sun shifting through the sky from crisp morning blue to golden evening, granting each stage of the destruction a different pictorial tone.

The assault becomes even more aggressive, more forceful, and more punk when contextualized against the historical backdrop of rising, almost militant, environmentalism.

The female body is depicted as natural and unconstrained, even against a bleak gray backdrop.

This was a weekend when art was merely the backdrop to the mapping of a community that has to stay whole against long odds: war, disease, fashion, real estate — even art school.

This is against a backdrop of attempts, even on this thread, to pretend there is no issue here, that scientists haven't «proven the case» or whatever as if the recent CO2 rise isn't known or is just typical of past natural changes.

Even Brazil's potential reserves (those more speculative assets that have at least a 50 % chance of being proven) are quite small against this backdrop.

We have seen short - term pauses and even short - term reversals in global temperature rise in the past century, against the backdrop of an unambiguous long term warming trend.

Even if the warming by 2100 only turns out to be 1.5 C (which would be on the low side), the modern warm excursion will be seen a exceptionally unique against the backdrop of the Holocene:

However, it is possible that this is correct even with a better data set and against a backdrop of warming temperatures.

This is all the more remarkable against the backdrop of the CJEU's palpable reluctance to accept such external review if even the slightest impact upon EU law's autonomy may be at stake.

However, King J explained: I do not take Smith v Smith to be saying that the court must always hear a case as a full blown ancillary relief hearing where there is an alleged agreement, but rather as a trenchant reminder that an agreement forms part of all the circumstances of a case and that, even if such an agreement be found to be of magnetic importance, the court should only ever consider such an agreement against the backdrop of all the s 25 factors.

Even Sony's much - improved Slim Backlight System +, meanwhile, can't prevent you sometimes seeing pretty clear blooms of accidental light around extremely bright objects when they appear against a dark backdrop.

Against the backdrop of a contentious presidential campaign in which abortion and even contraception were front - burner issues — to a degree unprecedented in recent memory — supporters of reproductive health and rights were able to block high - profile attacks on access to abortion in states as diverse as Alabama, Idaho, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Virginia.