Against this background, it is hardly surprising that the Inflation Report struck a hawkish note.
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This background will enable you to adjust more quickly than if you were an outsider.
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.
Given this background, it is not surprising that the prospect of additional road taxation is unpopular with voters.
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.
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It is against this background that the famous depiction of the youthful Good Shepherd, sitting among snow-white sheep, is placed.
But then a group of Irishmen do something so absurd as to make it almost impossible not to mention this background.
Against this background, the Siemens case is good news for governments and businesses hoping to reduce foreign bribery and remain competitive.
This background puts the dilemma of present day emerging markets into focus.
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.
This background helps to explain why Mr Fischer feels passionately that the misery caused by Hitler's war has landed the Germans with a special responsibility to help unite the continent.
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Given this background, not to mention Germany's detested wartime occupation of Greece and the recent rise of neo-fascist political party Golden Dawn, Katidis has since admitted the "stupidity" of his actions.
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.
Armed with this background, Weaver went to the FCC and tried to argue that his company would be just like a cable or satellite company which means that the broadcasters would have to negotiate with him.
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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).
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