Against that background, China s growing assertiveness may not surprise many.

Against this background, consider what Obama has achieved.

And suddenly, in this canvas of infinity, Bharat felt insignificant.

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

This is the context for Clinton s visit to India, as well.

Against this background, the credibility of Mexico s political institutions is rapidly eroding.

Against this bleak background, it is easy to celebrate the success of emerging markets.

The City of London, lower Manhattan, and a few other centers became money machines that made investment bankers, hedge fund managers, and private equity folk immoderately wealthy.

But against this shared background, France exhibits some important distinctive features.

Against this backdrop, the ejection of the IFE directors stands out all the more glaringly.

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

Against that background, it is not surprising that pay in the financial sector soared.

President Jonathan s and s communication machinery was in response hapless!

Against this background, nostalgia for the pre 2013 era is perhaps inevitable.

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

Given this, the US position in the world could more accurately be called a half hegemony.

Why did he stand against a ladder?

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

Viewed against this foil, the West with Stoker's Britain at its pinnacle emerged as the seat of universal reason.

Against this background, Obama should heed the doctrine proposed in 1991 by General Colin Powell.

In the background, my bicycle.

Let's get a picture of us with the sea in the background.

It is against this background that the International Monetary Fund has released its updated forecasts and assessment of the global economy.

The rouble falls amid geopolitical pressure

against the backdrop of a totally paralysed civil government.

A German Glimmer in a Global Boom

The dump with informal housing in the background.

Smoke billows in the background from battleships set ablaze.

The tree was clearly defined against the sky.

Paint the trees against the background of the blue sky.

Besides him, I'm simply a beginner.

Against this background, the US should have known that trying to compel Pakistan to limit its nuclear weapons capability would fail.

Congo squeezes social media in face of clashes

Against the snow, the white rabbit was invisible.

He moved with them to Tbilisi in 1870.

This shield consisted of a blue cross over a white field.

It is not often that the world finds itself facing the stagflationary risk of lower demand and lower supply at the same time. And it is even more unusual to have two distinct developments leading to such an outcome.

Ominously, the south is being taken over by hardcore Islamists, some allied with Al Qaeda.

It makes What the Bleep Do We Know seem like a doctoral dissertation from Harvard on quantum mechanics that's how bad it is.

And it is even more unusual to have two distinct developments leading to such an outcome.

The UK and U.S. are drawing up plans to attack Iran, writes the blogger, amid growing tensions in the Middle East, it was claimed last night.

The risk of a correction in the face of disappointing macroeconomic fundamentals is clear. Indeed, recent data from the United States and other advanced economies suggest that the recession may last through the end of the year.

And there's this loud, thrilling music in the background, this wild music.

You can look with a microscope and see them on a surface.

Amid the postwar devastation, he became a symbol of peace.