Sentence examples for an unusual background from inspiring English sources

An unlikely man with an unusual background, Bruce Fenton, conceived and organized the roundtable.

Loury had an unusual background.

Mr. O'Neill has an unusual background for an automobile executive.

Sakaguchi had an unusual background for a Google employee.

The man who holds the most powerful job in American science came from an unusual background.

Like a number of seventh-rounders, Houshmandzadeh has an unusual background.

Democrats face a number of imperatives at their convention, none trickier than making more voters comfortable with the prospect of putting a candidate with a most unusual background — the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia — and his family in the White House.

A career bureaucrat at the U.S. Treasury Department and the International Monetary Fund, he was also new to the world of Wall Street — a highly unusual background for a New York Fed president.

Stapleton wouldn't rule out standing for parliament one day, but says he wouldn't stop someone from a more unusual background being given the chance.

"Let's face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely," Obama began, outlining his unusual background: a father who grew up herding goats in Kenya and a mother from Kansas.

Educationwise, Nulle has a broad and rather unusual background.