Sentence examples for background and happened from inspiring English sources
I had Radio 4's Woman's Hour on in the background, and happened to hear Jenni Murray suggesting women can be more frightened of success than they are of failure.
Plame is certainly in a position to understand the tension between security and privacy, perhaps better than anyone, both because of her CIA background and what happened to her when her name was revealed.
He was a major donor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and my parents' names are now inscribed on the staircase going up, which was sort of amazing when you consider our background and what happened to us [during the war].
To understand one event, you need to understand the background: what happened before, and before that.
And [my] having the combination of a software development background and direct marketing happened to be perfect for when the World Wide Web came along not the Internet, but the web part of the Internet.
In the foreground, larger than the rest, we may find events from the distant past, while in the background what happened yesterday is blurred and foreshortened.
Here, the IPCC is setting the scene: Mitigation must happen and happen fast against a background of fast-rising CO2 emissions.
Two related notes: 1) John Cusack has an excellent Op-Ed in the Guardian from yesterday on many of these same topics; 2) Mark Weisbrot has a helpful analysis of the fallout from the extraordinary cancellation by Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff of the state dinner planned at the White House for October due to NSA surveillance, and McClatchy has good background on what happened there and why.
I come from a cycling background, I happened to be good at it, the opportunities came my way.
The most successful attempt Congress has made toward implementing universal background checks happened in 2013 shortly after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six educators were gunned down.
He preferred to stay in the background and make things happen.
