Against this background, it is hardly surprising that the Inflation Report struck a hawkish note.
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Against this background, constitutional change had the estimable advantage of appearing radical but costing little.
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Against this background DreamWorks is set to release its second new movie of 2011: Puss in Boots.
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It was against this background that Mr Van Miert stepped in to examine the Boeing-McDonnell Douglas merger.
Against this background, investors are trying to find out what the opportunities are.
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Against this background, the success enjoyed by Brit Insurance is even more remarkable.
It is against this background that the famous depiction of the youthful Good Shepherd, sitting among snow-white sheep, is placed.
Against this background, the Siemens case is good news for governments and businesses hoping to reduce foreign bribery and remain competitive.
Against this background, making a few bankers squirm is a minor sport.
Against this background, the clubby French military elite hunted for a traitor.
Against this background, Dr Karadzic's evidence was a blast from the past.
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Against this background, Mr Putin's promise, when he became president in 2000, to cut the oligarchs down to size was justified and welcome.
Against this background, the gains from unilaterally cancelling the promissory notes would probably be outweighed by the negative response from the rest of the Eurozone.
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Against this background, white complaints about positive discrimination can sound ridiculous.
Against this background, Garel Rhys, director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff Business School, warned of further job losses in Wales' motor industry.
Against this background, Mr Magueijo's attempt to portray himself as a brilliant maverick, a successor to Richard Feynman, or a rival theorist to the great Einstein, is simply laughable.
Against this background, the programme does appear to be yielding some benefits for a group that includes some particularly disadvantaged individuals: two-fifths of those entering the New Deal are functionally illiterate.
Against this background of chaos and anarchy, Mexican drug traffickers have inundated Guatemala, and not merely because they are being forced out of Mexico by (Mexican) President Felipe Calderon's anti-drugs policies.
It is against this background that a weak centre-left government drawing on support from unions may find it even harder to enact the kind of reforms that stand any chance of improving productivity and competitiveness.
Against this background, good crisis-management is invaluable.
It was against this background of tightly regimented Nazi showcasing that, on August 3, Owens started competing in Berlin's 100, 000-seater Olympic Stadium, winning his first gold medal in the 100 meters (equaling the Olympic record with his time of 10.3 seconds).
Seen against this general background of inaction, the first signs of progress on privatisation are therefore welcome.
But against this dark background there were some bright points.
Against this turbulent background, President Obasanjo is determined to increase Nigeria's oil production from 2m to 4m barrels a day by 2010, and proven reserves from about 25 billion to 40 billion barrels.
And all this against a background of continuing questions over the prime minister's retirement plans and the timing of the expected handover to Gordon Brown.
Against a background like this, a little waywardness in the world of macroeconomics seems entirely forgivable.
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This comes against the background of a huge financial crisis in 2008, which later fed into the eurozone debt crisis that is still unresolved.
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