backdrop

Despite a pledge to be a president who presides over peace rather than war, Trump takes office against a backdrop of global upheaval: wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the increasing closeness of Russia and North Korea, an ascendant China.

The show was in development over the last five years, against the backdrop of events like the Black Lives Matter protests.

He said the Budget created a "worrying" backdrop for businesses at a time when economic growth is desperately needed.

Against this backdrop of public unease, Zoox is stressing to San Franciscans that it has prepared for this new roll-out.

“In the backdrop, we had this growing anti-immigrant, nativist, fascist rhetoric rising in the country,” said Perea, the executive director of the Harbor Institute for Immigrant and Economic Justice.