Sentence examples for act as a back from inspiring English sources

The Spanish architect Luis Sert wanted to install a fountain running with mercury to act as a back drop to Picasso's Guernica.

The centre-left prime minister Enrico Letta, whose uncle Gianni is a Berlusconi confidant and was supposed to act as a back channel, rightly denounced the decision to break the coalition as mad and irresponsible.

But part of the Web's appeal has been its unbridled nature, and it is showing that it can act as a back alley -- where punches can be thrown and things can be said that might be deemed out of place, even if just at a particular moment, in the full light of the mainstream media.

And notoriously the Cameron government's efforts to help Murdoch buy all of BSkyB very nearly cost his media secretary, Jeremy Hunt, his job when the Leveson inquiry disclosed that while Hunt was supposedly acting in an impartial "quasi-judicial role" he was allowing his special adviser to act as a back channel, supplying confidential information to the Murdoch camp.

These properties provide a starting point to understand how Kif15 can act as a back up for Kif11 in cells.

Or will the required "stress test" act as a back-door route to temporary bank nationalization (the solution favored by a growing number of economists, myself included)?

The metadata database accommodates queries with OpenSearch and act as a back-end of applications.

When fluid and boundary films fails or is broken down, such coatings can carry the load and act as a back-up lubricant.

They store solar energy for later, for example overnight, and can act as a back-up in the event of a power outage.

Many people connect these devices to a home router to give family members a place to put important files such as photos and films or to act as a back-up for other gadgets.

Considering the high decay rate of C. hydrogenoformans (Zhao et al. 2013), it is mandatory to have a secondary carbon and energy source that would act as a back-up system in case CO fails to be delivered over an extended period of time to the biomass.