backdrop

And the sweaty bars and fringe meetings of the party conference provide the perfect backdrop for those out to make trouble.

Once a backdrop for countless western films, the rugged Eastern Sierra landscape is now more likely to draw rock climbers and hikers than real or silver-screen cowboys.

Soon after winning his party's leadership in 2020, he branded Labour literature with the union flag, which was also never far from the backdrop of his TV news clips.

A fairly new prime minister is struggling for popularity with his party and the country at large, against a backdrop of grim economic choices.

Hence Rodgers' call for "realism" when analysing the result against the backdrop of a spell of three years in the Champions League now at an end.