A backdrop!

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

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

Wouldn't a wellcrafted backdrop have been better?

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.

These case studies will examine country specific productivity experience and provide an interpretation against the backdrop of these countries' overall growth performance.

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

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

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

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

The helicopter was flying low against the backdrop of hills.

The Eleventh Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, to be held in Bangkok, from 18 to 25 April 2005, will provide an important backdrop to the Round Table.

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

42. Mr. BIAOU (Benin) said that multisectoral, sectoral or subsectoral strategies formulated by recipient countries based on their own priorities should provide the backdrop for coherent programming of external assistance.

Against so homespun a backdrop, the magnificence of the Ambersons was as conspicuous as a brass band at a funeral.

Allow me briefly to highlight some basic facts from these studies, as they provide an important backdrop against which we must view our support for this initiative on opportunity and participation.

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

Restorative justice generally operates against the backdrop and as a complement to a capable, fair and efficient justice system.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Our debates are unfolding against a backdrop of escalating oil prices, whose worst fallout we may have yet to see.

Against this backdrop, the proposed peace plans under discussion at the negotiations in Geneva raise a number of fundamental issues.

Careful management was all the more urgent as those developments were taking place against a sombre macroeconomic and political backdrop.

This session of the First Committee is convened against a backdrop of some encouraging developments in arms limitation and disarmament.

The agreement will be hotly debated in large measure because it comes against a backdrop of unprecedented partisan tension in Washington.

It is against this bitter backdrop that a new Afghan president will be elected and the withdrawal of forces carried out.

Against that backdrop, we in the Gambia are unreservedly committed to the realization of a peaceful, stable and conflict free Africa.

Against such a horrifying backdrop, apprehending and trying those three senior level accused is the very least that we can do.

A summary of those estimates, which should be viewed against the backdrop of the above mentioned general considerations, is given below.

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