Sentence examples for background of history from inspiring English sources

Dumas's main interest was the creation of an exciting story set against a colourful background of history, usually the 16th or 17th century.

He is in effect the man who did everything, English football's own Forrest Gump, condemned by a combination of opportunity and ambition to find himself lurking in the background of history time and again.

This is an astonishing alternate-history novel about a world with superheroes – while the Americans fulfil their cultural destiny by wearing garish outfits and adopting outlandish names, the British heroes owe more to Le Carré's glum, shadowy spies and work in the background of history.

One of the main draws of the original games for me was the almost suffocating narrowness of the Florentine streets and Venetian waterways, which helped conjure the necessarily paranoid atmosphere of the series, with its hidden machinations operating in the background of history.

The jury at Preston Crown Court heard a background of "history" between the Short and Atkinson families, which began in 2001.

But now, as that battle recedes into the background of history, we finally have the opportunity to dust ourselves off, take a deep breath, look around, and ask: What's next?

Historical allusions such as bin Laden's, which may seem abstruse to many Americans, are common among Muslims, and can be properly understood only within the context of Middle Eastern perceptions of identity and against the background of Middle Eastern history.

March 4, 1916 Bologna, Italy April 13, 2000 Rome, Italy Giorgio Bassani, (born March 4, 1916, Bologna, Italy died April 13 , 2000 Rome), Italian author and editor noted for his novels and stories examining individual lives played out against the background of modern history.

Provenance is just the kind of thing that only museum curators and art historians concern themselves with, because only they are interested in the minutiae of receipts and sales records that make up the economic background of the history of art.

And (b), assuming such adverse effects against the background of AIDS history, how can screening risk behaviour prevent people from interrupting their practice of discussing and disclosing their sexual practices online?

When the argument arose about abuses of executive power in the Unites States following the September 11 , 2001attacks, that debate could take place on the background of a history of executive power grabs and the responses to them (Jefferson's requisitioning of funds for the military without congressional approval and Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the civil war come to mind).