Sentence examples for background met from inspiring English sources
Keeler, a showgirl from a modest background, met the cabinet minister via a mutual friend, Stephen Ward, a West End osteopath.
Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie, a Canadian diplomat of great charm and intelligence from a privileged Nova Scotia background, met in 1941, and their love affair was conducted in the emotionally heightened atmosphere of London at war.
Eric Sapp, a political consultant with a youth ministry background, met with evangelicals in Western Michigan and heard an earful of anti-abortion arguments, then unveiled the naked emperor: Reversing Roe v. Wade would be a Pyrrhic victory.
Maryam, a Pakistani Muslim, and Lea, who is from a white, working class background, meet at the police station where they are both summoned to collect the remains of their boys.
The minister promoted the new commonwealth scholarships scheme as a way to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds meet their costs of living, relocation, mentoring and support while studying.
Research by the Social Integration Commission shows that when people from different backgrounds meet and mix and get to know one another, trust grows and communities flourish.
Students from all backgrounds meet other students, tutors, alumni, and employers – all of whom can offer opportunities to any student with networking skills and who takes the initiative to use them.
Floyd Rumohr, artistic director for the Chekhov Theater Ensemble in Brooklyn and the acting coach for the project, said that Shakespearean drama "lets students from different backgrounds meet on new turf".
If whom you know is as important as what you know, then we need to help young people of all backgrounds meet people who can help them in their careers.
It's not hard to see why: An increase in immigrants of diverse faiths, greater workforce diversity, and the globalization of business all play a role in more workers from different religious backgrounds meeting on the job.
Finding ways to help students of all socioeconomic backgrounds meet high standards is a preoccupation of many Princetonians who have been trying to reform education one school at a time.
