| A craggy hill, criss-crossed by the sheep paths of centuries, forms the city's backcloth. |
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| The background is no incidental backcloth for the staging of the figure's magnificence. |
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| The difference of expert opinion nonetheless forms an important backcloth to the submissions made on the claimant's behalf. |
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| A fabrication woven from fear, anxiety, fantasy and myth formed the backcloth for the initial encounter between Europeans and Africans. |
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| In these circumstances scenery was possible, though usually restricted to a backcloth and drapes, but there was no acting. |
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| One finds in these presentations an implementation drive that connects social dynamic and protection, but production forms a backcloth. |
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| However, such reception should not take place to the detriment of the environment which is itself the actual attraction or the backcloth. |
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| Canvases measuring several metres in length provide the backcloth for these visual «stories». |
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| Against a global backcloth, what are the issues and challenges facing Europe? |
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| The trip takes place against a backcloth of increasing economic stability, regional integration and trade liberalization in Latin America. |
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| Instrumental music is important for creating or enhancing the atmosphere where words are silent, or as a backcloth for speech that is often melancholy and reflective. |
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| Against the above backcloth over the last decade many Governmental authorities have turned to the private sector to solve their water problems. |
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| The cloth to be printed is spread on the rubber, either gummed in position or pinned to a backcloth attached to the table. |
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| But is it real, or is it just the backcloth to yet another fantasy? |
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| That issue provided the backcloth for most of the other discussions, such as whether more money can be spent on the NHS, or whether tuition fees should be cut. |
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| But it was a perfectly logical thing for me to do in the wake of the MPs' expenses scandal, which was very much a backcloth to the creation of this government that people have quickly forgotten. |
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| With the scale of unemployment and exclusion together representing a threat to social cohesion, the Member States are in the throes of an ongoing debate on the role of education and training set against this backcloth. |
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| Ultimate comes with a green-screen backcloth for chromakey effects. |
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| However, against a backcloth of forest expansion and higher per hectare stocking rates, the EU forest utilisation rate, measured as the ratio of felling to increment, declined overall from 195022 until early this century. |
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| In conclusion the WTO rules require urgent reform if we are to meet the challenge of feeding 9 thousand million people in 2050 against the backcloth of climate change. |
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| The prize is much more than peace in the Middle East: it is world peace, because continued violence in the Middle East is a poisonous backcloth to a lot of the terrorism which continues to happen in all parts of the world. |
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| At Musilac, stars are not on the water but on the Esplanade du Lac with the magnificent landscape as the backcloth of what has been, for about ten years, one of the greatest summer festivals. |
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| The three United Nations Conventions that are the backcloth to the resolution we are debating today and will vote on tomorrow take centre stage in this. |
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