A backdrop!

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

Wouldn't a wellcrafted backdrop have been better?

The Doha negotiations have been taking place against the backdrop of trade's increasing role in and contribution to economic growth and development.

The objectives of the new international economic order in the latter part of the 1970s were formulated against the backdrop of cold war.

Against such a backdrop we can wait no longer.

A constant backdrop has been the situation in Iraq.

I'm sure you have a good backdrop of Washington.

Against that backdrop, I have two questions for the Minister.

The helicopter was flying low against the backdrop of hills.

Against this backdrop, the imperative of the universality of peace and development forcefully tells us to take note of how the world economic situation is developing.

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

TUNIS Like a long dormant volcano that suddenly erupts, the revolutions that have swept across North Africa against a backdrop of strong economic performance took all by surprise.

The sustained economic growth experienced during the immediate post conflict recovery period must be appraised against the backdrop of the depth and severity of poverty in Sierra Leone.

However, there is a pressing and urgent need for such re examination to be carried out against the backdrop of the environmental and economic challenges now facing us.

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

Against that backdrop, I should like to focus here on three issues.

This is the backdrop of the challenges we as an organization face.

These developments, albeit positive, should be considered against the backdrop of lesser accomplishments.

Against that backdrop, the least developed countries are prepared to make their contribution.

All of this is happening against the backdrop of increasing experimentation with drugs.

Negotiated against a backdrop of crises and power plays, it has its floors.

This plenary meeting of the General Assembly is being held against this backdrop.

Any thinking concerning this field necessarily has as a backdrop a prior assessment of the international economic system, whose institutional foundations were laid at the end of the Second World War.

President Urusemal We gather this year against the backdrop of many recent natural disasters.

It was against this backdrop that the Jesuit priests and two women were murdered.

In creating family support infrastructures, the State and its institutions are only the backdrop.

The existing nuclear testing moratoriums provide an important backdrop to the negotiations in Geneva.

Against the backdrop of the momentous socio economic changes taking place worldwide, the report highlights the challenges confronting public administration systems as they implement different types of innovative and capacity strengthening measures.

It is against this backdrop that we abstained in the voting on this draft resolution.

It is against this backdrop that we fully support the concept of negative security assurances.

This would be a difficult challenge under any circumstances and is all the more daunting against the backdrop of the Arab Spring s destabilization of the economic systems across the Middle East and North Africa.

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

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

In December 2003 she released a novel, Ticket to Paradise , based on the backdrop of 9 11.

Against a backdrop of generally tighter migration regulation during the reporting period, more encouraging developments were noted.

Against this backdrop, the full, immediate and unconditional implementation of article VI of the Treaty is fundamental.

As a backdrop to all this, the provisions of the Charter relative to peacemaking must be strengthened.

The International Conference on Population and Development, held recently in Cairo, provides the backdrop for our deliberations.

It is against this backdrop that we recall the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.

This is a picture of Titan, backlit by the Sun, with the rings as a beautiful backdrop.

Against this backdrop, institutional investors self insured quite rationally against a eurozone breakup by withdrawing behind safer borders.

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

The political struggle between civilians and conservative military sectors intensified, against a backdrop of social upheaval and mobilization.

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