Sentence examples for backgrounding from inspiring English sources

Leadership contenders Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese denied claims of disharmony in the ranks after a column suggested Albanese was backgrounding against Shorten.

Christopher Pyne has rebuked colleagues for backgrounding the media about the Coalition's current political woes – but has been rebuked in turn by the conservative commentator Andrew Bolt for implying the broadcaster and blogger was helping the Abbott government with its task of re-election.

Leaks, backgrounding.

"The only way you gain political advantage is by doing absolutely nothing to take advantage — and not have a lot of people backgrounding about how clever your political strategy is," said Michael D. McCurry, who was Mr. Clinton's press secretary at the time of the Oklahoma bombing.

With every stop on the journey, Christensen adopts this strategy, backgrounding plot and character elements in favor of ordinary statements we're meant to take as plain truth.

"Ministers should be working hard to win the Canning byelection rather than backgrounding against a colleague to scapegoat a potential loss," said Sinodinos, who was the longstanding and respected chief of staff to former prime minister John Howard.

I am for getting people from my background to vote".

"I come from a working class background, it wasn't easy for me at all, backgrounded hard.

I also used to have the TV on in the background over the course of the day for company, but I've stopped doing that now.

"We usually have music on in the background, but because of the detox we had to switch it off.

We had some amazing women who looked like them, and came from a background similar to them, so I'm uncovering role models who are exactly like them.