Sentence examples for a background role from inspiring English sources

He took the position of managing director in 1994 as his father reverted to a background role.

Mr. Obama gathered international backing for airstrikes during the Libyan uprising, and kept American military forces in a background role.

Bassists have a lot to prove to transcend a background role; some, in positions of leadership, overcompensate with a hypermelodic, almost guitarlike style.

Despite his father's decision to take a background role in the music industry, life in the Hammond household sounds far from normal.

As a sideman, Cooke may seem to have played a background role in the stories of bluegrass and of the Clinch Mountain Boys, but he was no spear-carrier.

"We would be vulnerable to the effects of ageing," the grandees argued, "because we could not test...existing warheads".Yet reasonable though such reservations may sound, they played only a background role in the treaty's death on the Senate floor.

Because Maya was only a background character, Rouass's role was limited, did not perform any stunts and had time to perform other projects.

According to a British prosecutor at an extradition hearing, Mr. Raissi played a crucial background role in the attacks, ensuring that the hijackers had access to pilot training in the United States and monitoring their progress so they were "capable and were trained" for their mission.

Von Weizsäcker was born in Stuttgart, the son of Marianne (nee von Grävenitz) and Ernst von Weizsäcker, the administrative head of the foreign ministry, a brilliant career diplomat who inevitably played a big background role in Hitler's diplomatic coups at Munich and Moscow and was his ambassador to the Vatican during the war.

Now Thomas, after four and a half years as the face of the franchise, will retreat to a nebulous background role somewhere down the company flow chart.

Yet he evidently played a crucial background role in Secretary of State Colin Powell's momentous address to the United Nations Security Council in February, 2003, which argued the case for a preëmptive war against Iraq.